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...jewel-encrusted spike-heeled shoe on a brocaded cushion. The bride and bridegroom danced their wedding dance to Sarah Vaughan's I'm Crazy About the Boy, and later on, the Boy himself showed off some Saturday Night Fever steps for the enthusiastic crowd. As for the Boy Toy, she vetoed her own music, although one of the wedding's deejays, Terence Toy (yes, Toy), sneaked in the upbeat, romantic Lucky Star. Said Toy primly: "I didn't play Like a Virgin." --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles
...concert, the atmosphere is a little more restrictive, less familial than in times past, but Springsteen, off the road, is still the superstar who will tag along home on the spur of the moment with a casual friend and plunk out a few notes for the family on a toy piano. Recently, after a rehearsal in New Jersey, Springsteen found a fan lounging on the Boss's '69 black Chevy Malibu convertible. The fan took a bluff, bold shot: "How about a ride home?" "Hop in," said the Boss, and they drove...
...doesn't) is in a style that could be called International Mystical. Moore does an excruciatingly ingratiating Shirley Temple impression; as Santa, David Huddleston (Bad Company) says ho ho ho a lot, apparently at knife point; stalwart John Lithgow is amusing as a Nixon-like baron of the toy industry who figures to capitalize on gift giving by establishing a new holiday on March 25: Christmas II. There is little likelihood of a Santa Claus II, forcing the Salkinds to turn to the Easter Bunny or Guy Fawkes...
...Japan got its cinematic revenge for the A-bomb with the story of a prehistoric monster (called Gojira at home, Godzilla abroad), its eon-long sleep disturbed by an A-blast, that rises from the depths to stomp on Tokyo. In dozens of sequels, the beast devolved into a toy or a clown. But here, just nine years after Hiroshima, Gojira is a political metaphor that roars majestically to life...
...Hatfield is the quintessential Wal-Mart guy--a chain-smoking good ole boy from Baltimore who started as an assistant store manager and toy buyer in the American heartland nearly 30 years ago under the tutelage of Sam Walton. Today he is the missionary from Bentonville, Ark., bringing the Wal-Mart way to China. "I was blessed to work for Sam Walton," he says, "and I am doubly blessed to work in China." Walking through a brightly lighted store in Shenzhen, the boom town across the border from Hong Kong, Hatfield, who heads Wal-Mart's retail operations in China...