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Even if Rumpus' toy line strikes adults as gross, it has struck a chord with children, driving revenues from $1 million in 1997 to an estimated $15 million this year. More important, Rumpus represents the kind of fun-first, marketing-second approach to toymaking that has become alien to America's corporate giants Mattel and Hasbro, which together control about 30% of the toy business. The corporations instead scheme to recoup their nine-figure licensing fees for movie characters by filling the pipeline with action figures...
...train may be harboring thoughts of man-anguish chaos certainly disturbs me. I think I may prefer an abstract Mr. Willis shooting down the entire world than this haunting - and scarily authentic - perception of my American yuppie. This new analysis of men, however, plucks an uneasy chord in evangelical Hollywood; that the average man might have a much blacker psyche than South Park suggests. Perhaps we women really should learn to share our Lifetime...
...from blackest comedy to fiercest tenderness and all the bathos in between. It feels like there is a great deal here, and it's presented with extraordinary ease. I found my reactions changing even as I watched the film unfold. It works like lightning: it never strikes the same chord twice...
...became involved in the movement when she heard about ESAC as a sophomore. She became heavily involved with the Academic Affairs Committee in the spring of 1998. She says that although the movement struck a positive chord with many students, "it takes more than support to run an organization...
Rock, despite his brash stage persona, is often subdued in private. His head writer, Jeff Stilson, says the man viewers see on Rock's specials is actually "Chris Rock times 1,000." Still, when a subject strikes a chord with him, Rock will go off on a comic jam session. Take white rap-rock. "It's kind of sad that when you watch MTV, you don't see a lot of cool white guys anymore that are cool without acting black," he says. "Like when I was a kid, Axl Rose was cool. David Lee Roth was cool. And they...