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...does success necessarily go on forever. HIT itself raised eyebrows recently when it paid $275 million for Lyrick, owner of Barney the dinosaur, the purple Mesozoic character that seems to have overstayed his welcome in the marketplace. Last year Germany's EM.TV bought the late Jim Henson's Muppet empire as part of a whopping $680 million deal, mainly to take advantage of the brand. Now, as EM.TV attempts to rid itself of debt, Kermit and Miss Piggy could be sold again - though some analysts say the Henson stable may fetch less than half EM.TV's original outlay...
Harmaini, headman of the village of Padang Japang, is a political dinosaur. The calendar in his office is a year old and his pen and paper supply ran out weeks back. But the 63-year-old shows up everyday in a freshly-pressed safari suit, does some retirement planning and is actually eager to welcome his imminent replacement, a village chief elected in a whole new way. "I'm relieved," he says, "that we'll finally be going back to a system that truly suits our community...
...Coney Island roller coaster. But by the end of the decade, the genre Harryhausen helped define was dying at the box office. Pop cinema was getting sexier and a lot more violent. As Ray later said about his unsuccessful 1969 picture "Valley of the Gwangi," "A naked dinosaur just was not outrageous enough...
Call it the Guitar-soloasaurus - scientists name a dinosaur after Dire Straits' ex-leader...
...phrase scientific fieldwork didn't conjure up enough images of toe rings, bandannas and Birkenstocks, a team of researchers from the University of Utah cemented the scientist/stoner equation forever this week by naming a dinosaur after ex-Dire Straits frontman MARK KNOPFLER. Masiakasaurus knopfleri was discovered in Madagascar and christened after the aging rock star because the researchers listened to a lot of Brothers in Arms while working under the hot island sun. Masiakasaurus lived during the late Cretaceous period and was probably 5 ft. to 6 ft. long, weighed in at 80 lbs. and sported protruding snaggleteeth used...