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...Vanishing -- directed in both versions by George Sluizer -- misplaces its leading lady early. She disappears at a highway rest stop, leaving her lover Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) angry, then for years obsessed. He wants to know what happened. We already do. At least, we know whodunit. Barney (Jeff Bridges), a nerdy schoolteacher with the improbable accent of a Swedish Peter Lorre, has abducted her and taken her to his lakeside cottage. When Barney reveals himself, Jeff must decide whether his need to know the ending, even a tragic one, to his story -- and they all died horribly ever after -- is worth...
Contemplate showing up for your Smith-Barney interview in a beige leisure suit, black Reebok high tops and an "American by birth, Southern by the grace...
...Huggable Barney is the toast of toddler TV and toy counters...
Then one Super Bowl Sunday, Leora Rifkin, 4, daughter of Larry Rifkin, a programming executive with Connecticut Public Television, pulled a Barney tape off the video-store shelf and went home to watch it. And watch it. And watch it. Seeing the magic, her father called Leach's company, the Lyons Group, and they teamed up to produce 30 PBS episodes, which started airing last April. When PBS considered canceling the show last summer, parental howls saved it. Now 20 new episodes, which will introduce another dinosaur character, are scheduled for next year...
Like many a superstar before him, Barney is learning that fame can be a heavy burden. A legal team is scrambling to quash a rash of Barney impostors. And grandiose plans to market and export the creature may, through overexposure, make him a victim of his own success. Still, not a bad fate, given what happened to the rest of the world's dinosaurs...