Word: tweening
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...likes - the vampire musical - concoct a story (based on Anne Rice's novels) that spans a couple of hundred years and loses us at about year 65, and induce Elton John to write a score that (except for one lively rock number in the second act, in which a tween-age vampire cries for ?More?) sounds instinguishable from Broadway's usual power-pop Muzak? Lestat is a predictable bore, sometimes a laughable one. Only redeeming feature: it prompts some retrospective kind thoughts for two previous vampire musicals - Jim Steinman's Dance of the Vampires and Frank Wildhorn's Dracula, both...
Amazing Allysen from Playmates is a smart doll for the tween set. She's programmed to learn a child's preferences--favorite colors and hobbies, best school chums--and work them into conversation. Armed with a vocabulary of more than 100 words, Allysen speaks in the recorded voice of a real girl. Her ability to process voice commands--a technology that hasn't always worked so well in the past--is supported by sophisticated software, her creators say. The animatronics controlling her face are finely tuned to produce subtle facial expressions that are perfectly suited...
...world look the other way when it comes to dealing with the appalling poverty and diseases burgeoning in our own backyard. Unfortunately, pressing social issues still take a backseat to pretentious religious ones in many developing nations. Praveen Grover New Delhi Unique Partnership The article about the alliance be-tween former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush [Dec. 26?Jan. 2] should be required reading for every politician in the country. You agree on some things and you disagree on others, but you work out the differences with dialogue and respect for each other. That is the way things...
...SPROUSE, both 13, who currently star in their own show on the Disney Channel and also appeared on the sitcom Friends. The new brand, D.C. Sprouse, hangs on the twins' cuteness and likability and will include DVD movies, CDs, clothing, sports gear and video games to appeal to the tween-boy audience. "They're real boy boys," says an Olsen rep of the Sprouses. "They like skating, sports, all of that." O.K., but if you want to know what boys are really into, here's a tip: try girls...
...network says this cartoon is aimed at kids from 6 to 14. Is that even possible? Well, older kids will appreciate the savvy pop-culture parodies and the heroine, a sassy, tween fly with a nonconformist streak. When a clique of her trendy peers decides it's no longer cool to regurgitate food--part of the natural fly digestion process--she defiantly barfs on a plate of garbage and declares, in a Spartacus moment, "I am a fly!" The barfing jokes explain why the 6-year-olds will like...