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...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 in 1999. "It's a matter of the right image at the right time," says Mike Broadfield, Just Group's head of consumer products...
...Others say that kids see through any programming based on a slick marketing idea and not much else. "People have come to me with the bed linen designed before they've thought about the main characters," sighs Kate Fawkes, a consultant to HIT Entertainment who oversaw the development of Bob the Builder and is now working on a TV series based on Angelina Ballerina, a dancing mouse. "You have to make the best show you can and then see what happens. If it's funny and it's got charm then you have a chance, but even then...
...Academy Awards managed to pass into history without any significant tasteless, or truly memorable, moments. BJORK did lay an egg on the red carpet, and we gazed upon an uncharacteristically lucid BOB DYLAN, his majestic cragginess beamed via satellite from Australia. But most of the surreal celebrity high jinks were reserved for the Vanity Fair postparty at Mortons, where a single terrorist bomb could have instantly made Drew Carey the most powerful man in show business. At the bash, TOM CRUISE clung to his publicist, and Calista Flockhart, Lucy Liu and Lara Flynn Boyle formed the world's skinniest posse...
...BOB CLEMENT, member of Congress...
SEPT. 1998 Bob Dole describes the nation as "disgusted" by the married President Clinton's affair with the considerably younger Monica Lewinsky...