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Archie Bunker's niece will soon have a new television role. Danielle Brisebois, 12, who plays the pixieish Stephanie on the CBS show Archie Bunker's Place, will star in commercials touting the Tinkerbell line of powders, perfumes, lip gloss, nail polish and other beauty aids for girls...
Is Danielle intended to be the Brooke Shields of the preteen crowd? Absolutely not, protests Martin K. Greenfield, president of New Jersey-based Tom Fields, Ltd., which makes Tinkerbell products. Danielle, he contends, is more wholesome than sexy. Says Danielle: "Brooke's style sells, but I'm not...
Tinkerbell's conservative sales approach, though, is now under increasing pressure from tough new competitors. Major toy manufacturers, including Mattel, Remco, Ideal, Hasbro and Mego, have introduced broad lines of make-believe makeup. Toy and Hobby World magazine lists Remco's Crayon Children's Play Cosmetics as...
THE OVERTURE is reminiscent of the slow trembling of leaves just before dusk. The everyday and the real give way to mystery and the dark. Then the fairy chorus is on stage, high voices piping "over hill, over dale..." and the stage, mostly bare of scenery, comes alive. What strikes...
Perhaps the Interim is just a state of mind, that will die when we all stop believing in it, like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan. Adherents of this view have organized themselves through a voting scheme called Schizophrenic Representation (in which a member of each campus fringe group votes for himself...