Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television shows linked to toys linked to websites linked to candy linked back to where you started--a pestilential Ponzi scheme (see foldout graphic). Smelling profits, America's conglomerates have pokeyed up to cash in. Hasbro paid $325 million to market the toys. The WB network (owned by Time Warner, the parent company of this magazine) swept up exclusive rights to the top-rated animated TV series. Warner released the Pokemon movie (see review above), which opened on Wednesday last week and saw thousands of children calling in sick from school with the "Pokemon flu." Warner...
...Reform Party nominee --Lou Bega's next single --Kathie Lee Gifford's Christmas special --Our neighbor's Y2K bunker --The Ask Jeeves Thanksgiving Day Parade float --Michael Jackson playing Edgar Allan Poe in a movie --Bill Gates' appeal --Y2K: The Movie --Willennium, the Will Smith album --Kurt Warner's second half --The recession --The presidential-campaign debates --The final episode of Shasta McNasty --Howard Stern dating --NHL Minnesota expansion team, the Wild --The debut of the trampolining competition at the Olympics --Bulgarian air-traffic controllers...
...Rancho Palos Verdes, authorities reported Friday that two boys, ages 12 and 13, were arrested this week for allegedly stealing 171 Pokemon trading cards from classmates at their middle school and from students at three nearby elementary schools...." "The box office surge follows a phone frenzy last week. The Warner Bros. switchboard took about 70,000 calls a minute after a televised offer for free tickets to the 'Pokemon' premiere last Saturday. The flurry crashed the studio's voice mail system...." "'Kids love the fact it's their own language,' a toy company rep said. 'They really enjoy becoming experts...
...Geena Davis and the "bio-exorcist" (Michael Keaton) they hire to clean out their home of its new yuppie occupants. The film, despite (or perhaps owing to) its weird atmosphere, unusual characters and occasionally cheesy special-effects, was yet another success for Burton, and he was then tapped by Warner Brothers to direct their biggest project at that time--Batman...
...information a day, does that mean 300,000 different people came to visit, or 50,000 who each visited six times? Glaser's techies tagged each user with a special ID number, or cookie, that identified them. Most big sites do the same thing, from Microsoft's to Time Warner's. But Real crossed the line when it correlated that ID number with each user's e-mail address and matched it to the user's offline listening habits. Even this might have been O.K. if it had disclosed the practice and given users the option to block...