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...were a fashion event, you might call it fabulous. Tonight's audience at Showroom Seven, a grand wholesale-retail space in midtown Manhattan, is peppered with actors, musicians, some designers for DKNY and others at home among racks of classy outfits destined for sale at Barney's or Bergdorf Goodman. Even the speaker looks swank, in perfectly coordinated suit and tie and black velvet yarmulke. But Rabbi Abraham Hardoon is not here to talk pret-a-porter; he is discoursing on the ancient esoteric Jewish tradition of Kabbalah...
...these words are being written, Michael Jordan and the mighty Chicago Bulls have a 500 record. Software giant Microsoft is battling antitrust suits brought by the U.S. government. And once-dominant children's entertainer Barney is now the subject of innumerable vicious parodies, with whole Web sites devoted to his gory demise. These three unrelated things delight us in similar ways. In each case, someone or something that was staggeringly successful for a long period of time has undergone a fall from grace...
...WINNER: The Chicken. Barney is always a loser...
...BARNEY "THE DINOSAUR" AGE: 200 million HEIGHT: 7 ft. WEIGHT: Won't divulge OCCUPATION: Children's TV host BEST PUNCH: Suing over a long-running skit in which the Chicken would "punch, flip, stand on and otherwise assault the putative Barney...
Video is animation's private bank. Of the all-time leaders in video sales, the top three (The Lion King, Snow White, Aladdin) and 13 of the top 20 are Disney cartoons. "Disney's animated machine remains the most lucrative business in the filmed-entertainment mix," noted a Smith Barney report, Filmed Entertainment: It's a Small World, issued in July, "and virtually no live-action film can replicate the profit potential of this venue." The figures that movie moguls dream of have dollar signs in front, and Disney's were enough to goad any showman into finding his inner...