Word: jem
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Angie C. Marek, I still dream of one childhood hero whose life I wouldn’t mind adopting. That person is a rock star, a philanthropist and a successful CEO all wrapped into one neat, pink-haired package. That person is Jem...
...Jem and the Holograms” was a group of five dolls originally created by Hasbro in 1985. When Jem first debuted on shelves, she was meant to serve as the antiBarbie and had a lot more going on than the other dolls in her cohort. She even came with a nice little background story to prove it. Little girls everywhere were fed the tale of Jem: pop diva by night, successful Starlight Records CEO Jerrica Benton by day. Always generous, Benton even donated all of the profits of Starlight Records to an orphanage. But the coolest part about Benton...
...still stunned by my childhood superhero, especially when I consider her deftness in the art of multi-tasking. In her world of non-reality, Jem did more for orphans than most dedicated volunteers. But even with these achievements, Jem inspires my adoration for a different accomplishment—namely, being the best female role model in the rock industry I’ve seen to date. Her personal life was intact and PG—we all knew that Jerrica/Jem would be forever faithful to her hunky boyfriend-cum-stage-manager Rio. Even when Jem whipped out the overly-skimpy...
...talked to my six-year-old cousin on the phone today. He whined about the cartoons on television these days, "They're all the same and they're all boring." I replied, "Listen, dude. When I was your age, I had to put up with 'The Snorks' and 'Jem and the Holograms'. So don't complain...