Word: patly
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...every film is a great merchandising opportunity," says Pat Wyatt, president of licensing for Fox. And not all spin-offs are aimed at junior. Estee Lauder, for instance, is currently marketing a line of makeup called the Face of Evita. But the best bets for merchandising, according to Wyatt, are family films with a strong fantasy element. In toy terms, "creatures do better than representations of people because kids can project a broader fantasy into their play." A more practical problem with human-based toys is getting actors to sign off on their likenesses; another is getting the likenesses right...
Cast members of Saturday Night Live don't often flourish after leaving the show, but Julia Sweeney--who left in 1994 after four seasons and one memorable character, the androgynous Pat--has had more than her share of tribulations. Her marriage to TV writer Stephen Hibbert ended in divorce. Her movie It's Pat opened in just three cities, got bad reviews and was banished to video. Her brother Mike was told he had lymphoma, and she had to take care of him. Then, just weeks before his death in April 1995, Sweeney found out she had cervical cancer...
Making history every step of the way, Skelton (1,509 yards) has already surpassed Pat McInally '75 for lone possession of second place for total yardage. McInally's record for career receptions (108) will most likely be broken next year as Skelton has tallied 103 receptions through just three years...
...some people, one of the bewildering aspects of the modern condition is that all sorts of things no longer mean what they once did. A smile is not always just a smile; a pat on the back may be mistaken for more than encouragement. And at the center of the sexual harassment scandal sweeping Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, members of the 143rd Ordnance Battalion--whose motto is "Professionals in Gear"--may want to consider changing their mascot from the acronymic PIG to a creature a bit less loaded with symbolism...
...lick their wounds and bare their fangs at one another. The Republicans will worry, and they should. Women, the new swing vote, more or less deserted them. The old swing vote, blue-collar Reagan Democrats, who are culturally conservative but not so crazy about Big Business, drifted away after Pat Buchanan faded. In polls conducted only days before the election, practically every gender, racial and age group favored Clinton except for households with incomes over $75,000. The latter group constitutes about 12% of the country. This is not good news for the Republican future...