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...appeals to journalism's need to find what's next. This has happened before (more about Cabbage Patch Kids in a minute), but the creation of the Furby--more important, the invention of a Furby craze--has set a new standard for an absurd game. Unlike even Tickle Me Elmo, the Furby became a must-have item this Christmas before almost any kid had made...
More recently, Tickle Me Elmo tested fairly well in the slew of kid-judged contests held every year (Family Fun magazine, Duracell batteries, and CBS all sponsor such tests, involving thousands of children across the nation). But Tyco, the Mattel-owned manufacturer, didn't expect it to become a giant seller. Then Rosie O'Donnell tickled Elmo on her show, and demand exploded. Once again, scarcity inspired collectors, reporters discovered a "hot" story, and your kid bawled his eyes out two years ago because Santa couldn't find Elmo before Christmas morn...
FURBY The hottest and most impossible to find toy this Christmas. Elmo...
However strong these women's performances, however, it's Sheedy--and who ever thought this sentence was possible?--who holds the picture together. The one-time co-star of The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire reads on paper as the recognizable name in a sea of unknowns, but so soundly yet unflamboyantly does she shatter her John Hughes image that she's no more recognizable than her colleagues. Sheedy centers her performance in the depth and movement of her eyes, a savvy decision when playing a top-flight photographer, but also an apt register of how carefully Lucy...
James Collins is TIME's TV critic. His household includes two Kermits and an Elmo...