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...very day that former Creative Artists Agency shogun Michael Ovitz was falling on his ears at Disney, his old outfit was literally rolling out the red carpet for a key element of its strategy to rule tomorrow's Tinseltown. Last Thursday marked the unveiling of the CAA/Intel Media Lab, CAA's bid for a thick slice of the growing PC-software pie and the strongest indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president...
Just ask customers like Barbara Stowe, a caterer in suburban Detroit who got out of the Sears habit years ago. Stowe walked into a remodeled store in Livonia, Michigan, to buy a paintbrush last month and left with an outfit for her 16-month-old niece and a renewed faith in the retailer that has since brought her back twice for Christmas gifts. "The clothes, especially for children, have amazed me," says Stowe, 47, a retailer's dream with a list that includes a grandchild and 26 nieces and nephews. "I used to get so frustrated with Sears. They would...
Scenes III-VII: The children continue their search for Santa, from city to city and through layer after layer of subcontractors, while Cruella, leading her own army of death-dealing action figures, pursues them. Jack Nicholson in his Joker outfit shows up somewhere along the way as, say, a Hong Kong-based export-import whiz, and at one point Jack and Cruella break into a duet: "Tiny wages for tiny people/ That's the way it goes/ They're lucky to have work/ As everybody knows/ You don't need money anyway, if you're only eight...
...which she jokingly titled Death Warmed Over (to be published by Knopf). "You think of dear old Mr. Johnson, an honest old chap that your family has dealt with over the years, and so you go to Johnson's, and it turns out to be this highly predatory different outfit where nothing's the same," she said. "I don't think people know anything about it. I think they're absolutely ignorant...
...Barbie Fashion Designer $45; Mattel; ages 6 and up Girls--or young Calvin Kleins--design doll clothes with this CD-ROM, print them on special paper and make them without sewing. Why pay for whatever bizarre Barbie outfit Mattel offers next when your angel can make...