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...derived from a craft used to maximum effect. If Fox Searchlight wanted to double its box office, they need only set up a booth selling models of Anderson's Fox family right outside the door of the theaters; they're as appealing as any stuffed toy Steiff has ever made. As for Mr. Anderson, he, like Mr. Fox, has dug himself out a hole by going deeper into it. Fantastic...
...charge alleges Walsh and Greenwood gave themselves $8.2 million in employee "advances" and another whopping $160 million for personal expenses. The complaint detailed funds' being used for buying rare books at auction, purchasing expensive horses, laying down $80,000 for a Steiff teddy bear and providing the ex-Mrs. Walsh with a $3 million residence...
...STEIFF DOES KARL LAGERFELD. WHO'S NEXT...
TEDDY BEAR Brooklyn candy-store owner and his wife introduced a plush brown bear in 1902. President "Teddy" Rooseveit lent his nickname. Early bears are now so valuable that a 1904 Steiff Teddy went for $166,000 at a 1994 Christie's auction...
Jobs (rhymes with lobs) did not make the revolution alone. He did not even make the machine that made the revolution, the Apple II, the personal computer that along with its other skills seemed to mint money. Stephen Wozniak, 32, Jobs' friend and former colleague who looks like a Steiff Teddy bear on a maintenance dose of marshmallows, created the Apple II. He worked from some pre-existing technology, scaling it down radically and making it affordable to consumers as well as corporations. "Steve didn't do one circuit, design or piece of code," says Wozniak, who was widely regarded...