Word: creator
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, Teddy Ruxpin, the talking toy bear, has delighted youngsters with tales in which he and his friend Grubby outwit the Mudblups, Bounders and assorted other villains. Too bad Teddy couldn't provide a last-minute rescue or happy ending for his creator, Worlds of Wonder. Last week the two-year-old Fremont, Calif., firm filed for bankruptcy protection. During the six months ending Sept. 30, WOW lost $53.5 million as sales fell to $72.7 million. During the same period a year ago, the firm earned $2.8 million on sales of $85.2 million...
...SADDEST READING The obituary pages of Variety, which week after week showed how much show-business talent is being lost to AIDS, including Liberace, 67, Director Michael Bennett, 44, and Charles Ludlam, 44, the innovative creator of Manhattan's Ridiculous Theatrical Company...
...United Methodist Church last week. In Houston 48 conservative pastors issued a protest against moves to make the church more accepting of homosexual behavior and to expunge supposedly sexist references to the Trinity in worship. Replacing the phrase "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" with such feminist formulations as "Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer," they charged, defies both Scripture and tradition. The caucus attacked a recent proposal by the national staff to drop a formal prohibition against "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals" in the clergy. Both issues promise to cause a fight in St. Louis next spring, when the 9.3 million-member denomination...
...Brooks is a subtler creator than Oliver Stone -- 18 years of writing and producing nifty TV shows like Mary Tyler Moore, The Associates and Taxi taught him to coax comedy from character instead of tossing it grenade-like under the viewer's seat, and Tom Grunick is a far subtler creature of malice than Bud or Gekko. But Brooks is agitated about the state of network news. He is unsettled by the marriage of the comely face and the bottom line. He is disturbed by the new big boys on Media Avenue -- not just in the news, and not just...
...With all due respect," says another voice, "I don't think you are a god." (That is another New Age doctrine, that everybody is God, co-creator of the universe...