The Curse of Barbie ; He Was Hooked On Cocaine and Call-Girls. She Was a Neurotic Who Hated Dolls. Yet 50 Years Ago This Week They Created the World's Most Famous Toy - Only for It to Destroy Them Both
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WITH her saccharine-sweet smile and impossibly long legs, Barbie is the most famous doll in history. More than a billion Barbies have been sold since the foot-tall plastic pin-up was first revealed to the world at the New York Toy Fair in March 1959, wearing a black- and-white, striped bathing suit.
In the half-century since, Barbie has become synonymous with the American ideal of a woman, a blonde beauty whose waist is ridiculously small, and whose bust -- if it were to be found on a real woman -- would cause her to topple over.See the full content of this document
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The Curse of Barbie ; He Was Hooked On Cocaine and Call-Girls. She Was a Neurotic Who Hated Dolls. Yet 50 Years Ago This Week They Created the World's Most Famous Toy - Only for It to Destroy Them Both
And she made a fortune for her creator, the giant American Mattel Corporation.
But there is a dark side to this epitome of a wholesome childhood. For behind Barbie's squeaky clean, girl-next-door image lies a string of lurid details about Mattel, which have come to light in a new book, Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World Of Mattel, by New York Times best-selling author Jerry Oppenheimer, published to coincide with Barbie's 50th birthday this month.The truth is that far from being the 'all- American girl' that she appeared to the millions of little girls who played wit...See the full content of this document
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