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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They forgot about Mikey, the embryo (and then infant) with star quality. Sassy but never cynical, Mikey is first seen, through some cunningly simple special effects, as a kind of hot-rodding sperm cruising up the Fallopian tube to the tune of the Beach Boys' I Get Around. "The sperm comes on and people go crazy," says Jonathan Krane, the film's producer. "From then on they're laughing at the picture." Not quite. They're laughing with it, in the easy, conspiratorial laughter any domestic comedy would kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Whole Town's Talking | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...bright side of this for the poor boy. Just say, for the sake of speculation, that Tyson loses tomorrow night. He won't even have to think of his own excuse. The media has provided him with a number of variations along the "poor, manipulated Mikey" theme...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Women KO'd in Media's Ring | 6/26/1988 | See Source »

...Mikey Can't Shoot: Tri-Captain Mike Gielen can shoot the ball. He really...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue, | Title: Cagers Meet the Holy and the Hellish | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...hear that Mikey, the Life cereal kid, died while eating Pop Rocks...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: An Urban Legend | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...Lady: You know, nuke him, like that Aquino fellow. Do unto him like he did to Aquino, I always say. Blame it on the Commies. You blame everything else on the Commies. So does he. Or get Khaddafi to do it. He'll try anything, like Mikey. He's the Antichrist ya'know. I saw it in a movie...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Being There | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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