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Oct.07.2011
Laurie (my wife) recently purchased a special collector's gift set edition of Barbie and Ken designed in the style of Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk, the Oscar-winning 1959 film. Russell Rouse took home a statuette for his Story and Screenplay written directly for the Screen.
(Rock...
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Jun.09.2011
"I want to destroy everything." -Jackson Pollock /
Pre-conceptual Art derives its name by analogy from ‘Pre-Raphaelite’, as in The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and best exemplified in the work of Edward Burne-Jones, which sought to return art to its medieval...
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May.17.2011
May 17, 2011
Barbie - the perfect "person" with the perfect life and no worries, enjoying the career of her choice and perpetually engaged to Ken. Maybe you think everything went well for her because of her looks. Do you see good looks as good luck?. Hard to believe but there are...
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Mar.08.2010
“…the situation we have in America right now, where any neurotic woman can make any stupid charge and destroy a man's reputation. If there is evidence of false accusation, the accuser should be expelled.” Camille Paglia, Playboy interview, May 1995.
Who is Dr. Sally Blower? Why is Head of the...
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Feb.22.2010
When I opened the package on the morning of my eighth birthday I was horrified to see an ordinary Sindy instead of the expected glamorous Barbie. I am quite sure Sindy was placed on a shelf in my bedroom where she aged rapidly from lack of use.
But my friend Rita had several Barbies and a Barbie...
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Feb.13.2010
Barbie, the 51-year old fashion icon, just added news anchor to her mega-list of careers.
Watch your step or Fox News may stop building that state of the art TV studio in your house now that Barbie's back in town.
You may have been governor of Alaska, for a few short years. But Barbie's been the...
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Jan.18.2010
I'm jealous of Barbie.
It's not her wardrobe, fabulous as it is, or her plastic curves. ( I'd be scared I'd tip over.) And it's most definitely not her perpetual boyfriend. (Barb, trust me, Ken is not marriage material.)
No, it's Barbie's resume. She's had 130 jobs by some count including...
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Mar.16.2009
On March 9, Barbie celebrated her 50th birthday - a truly notable day for a true American classic. Not so newsworthy was the birthday of her lifelong boy toy, Ken. Ken's official birthday is March 13, 1961. Since Barbie made her debut in 1959, this means that Ken is two years younger than Barbie...
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Mar.09.2009
Porochista Khakpour wrote a wonderful op-ed in the New York Times today about someone who is celebrating a birthday today. It’s someone we all have feelings for, good or bad. It’s someone who has divided women. No, it’s not Sarah Palin! Or Hillary Clinton! It’s Barbie!
Yes Gentle Readers, today is...
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Mar.08.2009
I have another NY Times Op-Ed this Monday. . . the topic is Barbie (happy 50th!), of all things, with an Iranian twist, of course.
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