With the holidays coming, your little ones may be hankering for something violent. To that end, we have video games, which allow the tykes to blow things up.

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As made sorrowfully clear by the cult of Princess Diana, fame has come not just to mean notoriety; it’s now the return on a Faustian pact. Still, even in the aftermath of the “stalkerazzi,” who doesn’t admit to feeling the seduction of celebrity veneration, at least now and again? With the [...]

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When Babs rented Casablanca for the first time, she realized black-and-white movies sometimes can be OK, too. In fact, she found herself inexplicably falling for the short character with the overbite, even though Babs has an aversion to trench coats. Now she wants to buy the video. But Babs also digs [...]

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What’s better than a CHiPs lunch pail? A Smurfs figurine!
TV has cool stuff, and the Web has all of it.
As Seen On TV
“Now how much would you pay?” As Seen On TV has all the products from the predecessors to infomercials, including the Clapper, Sea Monkeys, DiDi Seven, and Smart [...]

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Ever since the days of five-cent tickets and secret decoder rings, entertainment and merchandise have gone hand-in-hand to the bank. In the ’70s, George Lucas retained all merchandising rights to his films for himself through his company, Lucasfilm, and made a fortune. So today, nearly every movie has some sort of [...]

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When shopping for your new apartment, you believe you had thought of everything. But then your first night surged and passed, musicless. The time has come to replace the Blues Traveller compact discs of freshman year, and you need a place to find music online.

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