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Kozlowski landed at Tyco in 1976, hired by legendary hostile-takeover-artist Joseph Gaziano to fix some floundering acquisitions. At the time, Tyco Laboratories was a small manufacturer of everything from undersea cables to fire sprinklers. (It is unrelated to Mattel's Tyco line of toys.) But when Kozlowski took over in 1992, he re-created Tyco in his spirited image...
...there). In the U.S., it rolled out last fall as a Saturday-morning 'toon on Kids' WB!, where it soon ranked No. 1 in its time slot. In March the multimedia merchandising was launched: out came video games for Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Game Boy and action figures from Mattel. Also, beginning in that same month, came the trading cards--dribbled out just slowly enough to create scarcity. Interest, however, is anything but scarce: the Yu-Gi-Oh! website logs 1.2 million hits...
DIED. RUTH HANDLER, 85, co-founder of Mattel and creator of Barbie, the first mass-marketed American doll with adult curves; in Los Angeles. Male executives at Mattel were skeptical of an adult-looking doll's appeal to little girls, but Barbie, named for Handler's daughter, debuted in 1959 and has since sold 1 billion worldwide. After feminists denounced her as a symbol of objectification, Barbie took on such careers as doctor and astronaut. Handler, a breast-cancer survivor, later made artificial breasts for women who had had mastectomies...
...chef dad in the 1994 Taiwanese hit, Eat Drink Man Woman; in Taipei. Lung achieved international acclaim for his roles in Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all helmed by Oscar-nominated director, Ang Lee. (See Eulogy). DIED. RUTH HANDLER, 85, co-founder of the Mattel toy company and creator of the world's most popular doll, Barbie; in Los Angeles. The blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie was named after Handler's daughter Barbara, and since its introduction in 1959 more than 1 billion dolls have been sold in more than 150 countries. INDICTED. JAYSON WILLIAMS...
...Angell-Bustatoons fan base has something to celebrate other than extensive critical commentary. Mattel has decided to relaunch the He-Man toy line in July 2002. The new toys will be very similar to the play line that was so popular in the ’80s. In conjunction with the toys, Mattel is also working on an accompanying cartoon series. There will be a one-hour special depicting the origins of He-Man and subsequent episodes will run regularly on Cartoon Network. “The new show will be geared towards a more adult audience than the original...