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...programs has as much to do with the product on store shelves as with the product on the small screen. Children love a good story, and licensed merchandise connected with that story is big business. Last year more than 36% of sales in Britain's $2.5 billion toy market were of licensed toy characters, up 4% from 1999. HIT Entertainment, the U.K. company that created the preschool favorite Bob the Builder, estimates that the four-digited animated handyman has generated $140 million in British retail sales of related toys and other merchandise since his launch...
...that was really an eyeball. And I ended up putting them in the movie. But that was what I was after-I wanted the entire film to feel like it was made from a child's perspective. I wanted it to be very imaginative and childlike-something similar to Toy Story or Willy Wonka or Labyrinth...
...name also made artistic and pragmatic sense. The comic book medium of the time consisted entirely of superheroes and gag books. Furthermore, these books had positioned themselves (and we live with this legacy today) as a childish treat akin to toy cars and baby dolls. How then to fit in works that were similar-looking but contained copulating, dope-smoking hippies and motorcycle club beat-downs? The answer was, and remains: You don't. You call it something else. So "comix" was born, or more accurately, evolved, just as the medium...
...Mick won't tour with the Stones. Keith had been practicing and was really planning to give it his all this time YAO MING The top Chinese player watches from his cramped dorm as shorter Olympic teammate Wang heads to the N.B.A. and decent housing EMINEM Britian's biggest toy retailer, Woolworths, pulls the rap star's doll from the shelves. The Flock of Seagulls playset is still widely available
...exuberant centerpiece of the Mark Morris Dance Group's 20th-anniversary season. Sixteen of the choreographer's 100-odd dances--from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, a full-evening extravaganza for 24 dancers, four singers, chorus and orchestra, to Peccadillos, a duet for Morris and a toy piano--were presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Meanwhile, across the street, the company is moving into the brand-new Mark Morris Dance Center, its first permanent home in the dance capital of the world. The $6 million building's top floor contains one of the biggest rehearsal studios...