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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balloons and a one-string violin). But John Gilkey, Quidam's emcee, is a gawky delight, especially in a dance routine with a hat rack. Gilkey knows that the body is a deft comic instrument, even as the charming Chinese girls who do the "diabolos" routine (spinning a toy on a string while prancing nonstop in short skirts and Tin Woodman hats) know how to make this precision aerobic workout seem like schoolyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: FORGIVE THE MIMES | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

Moviegoers have been singing Tom Hanks' tune for most of the '90s. A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Toy Story--each movie has been a surprise hit, proof of Hanks' intelligence, craft and lopsided likability. Now Hollywood wonders, What can the guy do wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THAT THING--DON'T DO IT! | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...learned that one cannot turn 180[degrees] away from what people like to see you as," says the star philosophically. His next venture into the world of yuks is Jingle All the Way, in which he plays a harried father trying to find the season's most popular toy for his son. It's a situation that Schwarzenegger, who has three kids, knows personally. "It doesn't matter how rich or powerful you are. If the toy is out, it's out," he says. "When I read the script, I thought, 'This is like a documentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1996 | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Disney plans to release three or four DTV features a year, including sequels to The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and 101 Dalmatians, maybe Toy Story, and the live-action Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Other majors won't be far behind. Fox is readying a prequel to Casper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THERE SCHLOCK | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

With its button nose and tartan bow, it looks at first glance like a typical teddy bear. But this huggable toy does more than dress up a bed. It comes equipped with a hidden camera to watch the baby-sitter while the baby-sitter watches the kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYE SPY...THE BABY-SITTER! | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

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