Word: mattel
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...with her family, making her perhaps the only teenager in America who actually wants to live at home. "More time," however, is a relative term. Lipinski's days are filled with promotional appearances at department stores and malls (even before the Olympics she had scored deals with DKNY and Mattel); her nights are filled with fund-raising galas and movie premieres. In her rare spare time, she tools around her home state of Texas in the black Corvette she got as part of her deal with autoweb.com Fans can keep up at taralipinski.com where her online diary...
BARBIE A babe since 1959 and now worth almost $2 billion in sales annually, Barbie was fashioned by Ruth Handler Mattel's co-founder. The first doll wore a swimsuit and cost $3. Over the year Barbie's had 30 relatives and companions, but only one boyfriend...
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...
...Boston's newest emags, Stuff@night, is throwing its first anniversary party. The ads say, "All of Boston's Kens and Barbies are invited to a fabu Hollywood Extravaganza." Bonus points awarded for plastic hair, driving up in pink Mattel sedan and use of wanna-be Californian slang? 10:30 p.m., Avalon, 15 Lansdowne...
This intense curiosity sparked a life-long interest in the whys and wherefores of computers and offered an alternative to a real life that was less than orderly. When his parents went through a divorce after a move to New York City, Mattel hand-held games like football and car racing and the popular memory-testing game "Simon" were outlets that let Bennahum "hide from the experience of seeing once-powerful adults falter." In his high school computer lab he explains how users there escaped to a virtual world free from, among other things, divorces, remarriages, and troubled siblings...