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...seemed a demonstration that in Cannes 1986 as in Peru 1755, materialists could still defeat champions of the spirit. Even in the movie business, reality is ever intervening. Throughout the festival, the $6 million ship built for Roman Polanski's Pirates stood gallantly in the Cannes harbor, a toy boat of CinemaScope dimensions. On the day after the festival ended, it was joined by a bigger ship: the aircraft carrier U.S.S. America from the Sixth Fleet, fresh from its raid on Libya. The circus has left town, and real- life Rambos have arrived...
...their stay on what they assumed would be an island paradise with pristine beaches. What they discovered came as a shock. The sands of Laysan were strewed with an unbelievable variety of plastic trash. While doing his bird-watching chores, Fefer cataloged thousands of pellets as well as toy soldiers, disposable lighters and one toy Godzilla--all made of plastic. "This is one of the most remote islands in the world," he says. "I expected it to be just idyllic...
Anyone who wanted to buy the toy company Selchow & Righter in 1984 would have paid an outsize price, like $200 million or so. At that time the company was hotter than hot, thanks to the board game it manufactures, Trivial Pursuit. But last week, when the company finally agreed to be sold, it went for a much smaller price: $75 million. The firm's acquirer: Coleco, the company that manufactures another smash hit, Cabbage Patch dolls...
Selchow's value has fallen because Trivial Pursuit proved to be a fad. The manufacturer's annual sales of the game plunged from $400 million two years ago to roughly $50 million now, estimates Paul Valentine, a toy-industry analyst. In contrast, Coleco's Cabbage Patch annual sales rose 11% last year, to $600 million...
...industry that has responded slowly to the oil-price drop appears to be the $80 billion petrochemical business. In Worcester, Mass., Robert Freelander, owner of Come Play Products, a toy firm, notes that the price of some of his plastic items will be the same this Christmas as last. The reason: "Manufacturers have not been given a reduction in the price of materials. Since December, the cost of polyethylene has gone up about 3 cents a lb." Executives at the floor-coverings division of Dan River Inc., in Greenville, S.C., are less than elated with the results...