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...home). And, oh yes, fun sells toys. Lots of them. Originally, the Star Wars line of toys consisted of only seven figures inexpensively manufactured by Sears along with a handful of cardboard (yes, cardboard) playsets. The entire stock of toys sold out in a matter of weeks. Enter Kenner Toys and a line of 93 figures, countless vehicles and elaborate playsets. Sum total: over $350 million in box-office and related sales. (And that's in '70s dollars.) Star Wars, in a sense, put the popular back in popular culture. It would be a long time before major studios started...
While Star Wars characters and logos now adorn nearly every type of product imaginable, one of the first and foremost products created for the original film was a series of action figures by a relatively small toy company called Kenner. Many stories surround the inception of the figures, but what is known for certain is that their small size (less than four inches) was a radical departure from the larger superhero figures of the late '70s. The figures' small size allowed Kenner to make vehicles and playsets that the figures could interact with easily but wouldn't take up half...
Carrey on the cover? I couldn't have been more underwhelmed had you picked Jerry Springer. DAVID C. WOLF Kenner...
ROBERT LIVINGSTON (R) District 1 (Southeast--Metairie; Kenner...
Birthday girl Patti Kenner also cheers the movie's celebration of female camaraderie--and charity. In lieu of accepting birthday gifts, she asked friends to contribute to a women's organization. Peg Yorkin, who used some of her more than $50 million divorce settlement from producer Bud Yorkin to found the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1987, says, "Feminism gives women options they probably didn't have 50 years ago. Women who might not be as fortunate as I am at least can usually do something." Marilyn Kane, for instance, has become a counselor for the Coalition for Family Justice...