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Sure, some parents are lining up at dawn to buy those scarce white Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Golden Jubilee Barbies, but you can find lots of presents without any hassle at all. In the toy industry, these are known fondly as "stiffs." Some examples...
...When Brazil won the World Cup, Inman went crazy," recalls Sandy Ruben, owner of yuppie toy store Sandy and Son's. "People were all over the streets, everybody was applauding and parading. The police were everywhere, but it was in a positive way. For weeks afterwards, every Sunday there would be parades of cars honking and people would wave Brazilian flags. It was really terrific...
...well-known to American audiences (her one-woman show, A Room of One's Own, also adapted from Woolf, aired on PBS), Atkins is every bit as good as the dowdy, neurasthenic Virginia. It is the language that is the raison d'etre here, and the two actresses toy with it deliciously. Nevertheless, the material is simply not weighty enough to sustain the nearly 2 1/2 hrs. The words are beautiful, but the subject matter -- auto trips, Virginia's health, contemporaries unknown to us -- becomes tedious...
Allen, on the other hand, is obliged to play a man named Scott Calvin, a hard-charging, fast-rising toy-company executive who is pressed into service as a substitute St. Nick in circumstances at once too complicated and too stupid to explain. He finds to his dismay that the job is his for all eternity (that -- Get it? -- is the Santa clause buried in some fine print he didn't get a chance to read), and he is understandably skeptical about whether taking over operations at the North Pole is a great career move. To achieve a happy resolution...
...highway. The sight of a 6-ft. satellite dish on the front lawn traditionally signaled one of two things: here is a house so far away from civilization that the cable company won't even bother coming, or here is a homeowner rich enough to afford the most expensive toy in the media supermarket...