Word: mickeys
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...When sports fans in the 1950s argued the talents of baseball Hall of Fame center fielders Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Duke Snider, conversations centered around home runs and championship rings, not the sharpness of their tongues. Too bad for the kids growing up in the Golden Age of Baseball. Look at what they were missing...
...Reiji has his way, his clubs will become the model for any service-oriented business in Japan. "Disneyland is a franchise that's attained global success by knowing what a child wants," he says. "If I can get women to love me as much as children love Mickey Mouse?and if I can teach you how?is there any business that won't find value in that?" You might shake your head, finding it hard to make the connection with any other business you know. But give Reiji a fistful of yen for a bottle of cognac...
Cell-phone companies have been marketing heavily to children. They offer phones in assorted bright colors, with antennas that glitter like diamonds and cover designs of zebras, basketball themes and well-known cartoon figures like Minnie and Mickey...
Gusmorino and Lee also successfully defeated "Devil's Beastchild," Mickey Mouse, Santa Claus, Karl Marx, James Joyce, Britney Spears, Mr. Rogers, Red Sox player Nomar Garciaparra, "Gonzo, the chicken-loving vaguely humanoid puppet" and "Alf, the cat-loving alien...
Sherri Spillane--Mickey Spillane's ex-wife and the talent agent who has represented Joey Buttafuoco, John Wayne Bobbitt, Tonya Harding, Kato Kaelin, Rudy from Survivor and Judge Ito impersonator Randall Tamayei--got the idea to sign Tony Enos, the guy who drove the Ryder truck. Actually, what happened was that Amanda Ripley, who sits down the hall from me, called Spillane and asked if she had signed anyone from the Florida scandal, which inspired Spillane to call Enos. So, really, it's a beautiful story about an intrepid reporter, a scrappy agent and democracy itself coming together to create...