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- REP. MATT GAETZ SISTS HE’S “NOT GAY” AFTER REVEALG HIS 19-YEAR-OLD “SON” WHO HE “LOV VERY MUCH”
- BARBIE’S WEIRDO DOLLS: ALL ABOUT MIDGE, EARRG MAGIC KEN, AND MOREGRETA GERWIG’S MOVIE CLUS WKY MEOS OM SOME OF MATTEL’S MOST FAMO DISNTUED PRODUCTS—AND AT LEAST ONE THAT’S STILL AVAILABLE STOR.BY HILLARY BISJULY 21, 2023COURTY OF MATTEL INC.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEALAS, YOU NNOT BUY A WEIRD BARBIE DOLL WHO LOOKS LIKE KATE MCKNON—YOU’LL JT HAVE TO CHOP OFF A REGULAR DOLL’S HAIR AND SCRIBBLE ON HER FACE YOURSELF. BUT YOU N BUY A VERSN OF THE POOPG BARBIE DOG THAT WEIRD BARBIE LIV WH GRETA GERWIG’S BARBIE. THE PLASTIC PET PACKAGED WH A BARBIE WEARG A STRIPED SWEATER AND SPORTY SNEAKERS; S OFFICIALLY SANCTNED NAME IS THE BARBIE WALK AND POTTY PUP. “WHEN ’S TIME FOR A POTTY BREAK, PH ON THE PUPPY’S TAIL,” THE AD PY READS. “BARBIE DOLL N CLEAN UP G THE BROOM AND SOPER.” CONGRATULATNS, KID. HERE’S A PILE OF CRAP!BARBIE IS A MERCHANDISER’S DREAM, A GENERALLY WELL-RECEIVED, ENARGLY SUBVERSIVE PRODUCT THAT’S STILL, AT HEART, A GLORIFIED TWO-HOUR TOY MERCIAL. BUT TO THE FILM’S CRED, DON’T SHY AWAY OM REFERENCG SOME OF MATTEL’S ODR OFFERGS. ACRDG TO A NEW YORKER ARTICLE, THE FETG DOG IS ACTUALLY BASED ON TANNER, A BARBIE ACCSORY OM THE GHTS THAT ATE S OWN POOP—Y!—AND WAS EVENTUALLY RELLED NOT FOR BEG DISGTG, BUT BEE THE MAG SI BARBIE’S POOPER SOPER ULD E LOOSE AND BE SWALLOWED BY A CHILD. (THE WALK AND POTTY PUP APPEARS TO BE SENTIALLY THE SAME TOY, M MAGS.) BELOW, WE TAKE STOCK OF MORE TOYS LIKE TANNER: THE REAL-LIFE WEIRD BARBI THAT DREW PLATS, RISN, AND CELEBRATN AS ACCINTAL GAY INS. PROT BARBIE IS NOT AMONG THEM—AT LEAST, NOT YET.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.MIDGEEMERALD FENNELL HAS A GLORIFIED MEO BARBIE AS MIDGE, A REDHEAD DOLL WH A BUN THE OVEN. Y, THAT’S RIGHT: MIDGE IS PREGNANT. THAT DIFFERENTIAT THE MOVIE’S VERSN OF THE DOLL OM HER ORIGAL RNATN, LNCHED 1963 AS BARBIE’S MORE APPROACHABLE BT PAL. SHE WAS DISNTUED 1967, THEN RETRODUCED 1987, AGA THE ’90S, AND, MOST FAMOLY, ONE MORE TIME THE GHTS, AS PART OF THE “HAPPY FAY” SET—WHICH GAVE MIDGE A TY DOLL BABY THAT ULD BE PLACED EHER A BULGG STOMACH (WHICH GIRLS ULD MAGILLY ATTACH AND TACH OM MIDGE’S MIDDLE) OR “BORN” OUT OF THAT SAME PLASTIC DOME. HER HBAND AND THREE-YEAR-OLD SON WERE SOLD SEPARATELY.GGER GAETZ, WIFE OF MATT, ANNOUNCED TUDAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN THE BARBIE MOVIE, AND WAS DISAPPOTED BY PART DUE TO THE FILM’S “UNFAIR TREATMENT OF PREGNANT BARBIE MIDGE.” IRONIC, SCE NSERVATIVE IRE WAS STMENTAL GETTG HAPPY FAY MIDGE NCELED. “IT’S A BAD IA. IT PROMOT TEENAGE PREGNANCY. WHAT WOULD AN 8-YEAR-OLD OR 12-YEAR-OLD GET OUT OF THAT DOLL BABY?” ONE MOTHER ASKED THE ASSOCIATED PRS 2002. THE DOLL WAS PULLED OM WAL-MART DUE TO PLATS; JT AS NARRATOR HELEN MIRREN TELLS BARBIE, SHE WAS EVENTUALLY AXED OM THE MATTEL LP ALTOGETHER FOR BEG “TOO WEIRD.” BUT PERHAPS MIDGE GETS THE LAST LGH: ACRDG TO AT LEAST ONE LLECTOR, SHE’S NOW WORTH UP TO $400 MT NDN.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.ALLANREMEMBER HOW MIDGE HAD A HBAND? THAT WOULD BE ALLAN, PLAYED THE MOVIE BY A VERY GAME MICHAEL CERA. ORIGALLY TRODUCED 1964, HE WAS CREATED TO BE KEN’S BT BUDDY. (BARBIE WAS NAMED FOR CREATOR RUTH HANDLER’S DGHTER, AND KEN FOR HER SON; ALLAN WAS NAMED FOR HER THEN-SON--LAW, ALLEN SEGAL.) KEN AND ALLAN ARE VERY CLOSE; AS CERA TELLS THE MOVIE, “ALL HIS CLOTH F ME” (A LE STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MERCIALS). LIKE MIDGE, ALLAN’S BEEN AND OUT OF THE BARBIE UNIVERSE FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS—MOSTLY OUT. MATTEL HASN’T YET RELEASED AN ALLAN BARBIE TIE- DOLL, BUT GIVEN HOW FUNNY CERA IS THE FILM, THEY REALLY SHOULD.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHHOLLYWOOD ELE RH TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE THE STRIKE ENDSBY MARIE LODICOURTY OF MATTEL, INC.VIO GIRL BARBIEDEEP WH WEIRD BARBIE’S GONZO DREAMHOE LURKS VIO GIRL BARBIE (METTE NARRATIVE), WHO LOOKS LIKE AN ODDY OM THE 90S BUT WAS ACTUALLY TRODUCED JT 13 YEARS AGO. AS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WROTE AT THE TIME, VIO GIRL “HAS A GAPG HOLE HER CHT, DISGUISED AS A FASHN PENDANT, THAT NTAS A MERA LENS.” IT’S NNECTED TO THE VIO SCREEN EMBEDD TO HER BACK. THE IA WAS THAT GIRLS ULD E THE DOLLS TO RERD AND PLAY THEIR OWN HOME MOVI. (THIS WAS 2010, REMEMBER, YEARS BEFORE WAS POSSIBLE TO SHOOT A WELL-RECEIVED DIE MOVIE ENTIRELY ON AN IPHONE.) WH THE PACY TO PTURE ABOUT 25 MUT OF FOOTAGE, USB PATIBILY, AND EE EDG SOFTWARE, YOU N IMAGE THE DOLL BEG A H WH FUTURE GRETA GERWIGS. INSTEAD, VIO GIRL WAS CENSURED BY—AND THIS IS TE—THE FBI, WHICH ISSUED AN ADVISORY SAYG THAT THE DOLL ULD POTENTIALLY BE ED TO RERD CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. PERHAPS NEEDLS TO SAY, MATTEL NO LONGER SELLS VIO GIRL BARBIE.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.GROWG UP SKIPPERANOTHER ONE OM THE BAD IA FIL, THIS DOLL—ALSO BANISHED TO WEIRD BARBIE’S HOE OF NIGHTMAR THE FILM, WHERE SHE’S PLAYED BY HANNAH KHALIQUE-BROWN—IS THE VERSN OF BARBIE’S LTLE SISTER RELEASED 1975 THAT “GROWS AS HER FIGURE MATUR.” MEANG WHEN YOU TURN HER ARM, SHE GETS TALLER…AND HER BOOBS SWELL. NOPE!MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHHOLLYWOOD ELE RH TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE THE STRIKE ENDSBY MARIE LODICOURTY OF MATTEL, INC.TEEN TALK BARBIERELEASED 1992 (AND PLAYED ONSCREEN BY MARISA ABELA), TEEN TALK BARBIE HAD A VOICE BOX THAT SHE ED TO SAY THGS LIKE “LET’S PLAN OUR DREAM WEDDG!” AND “MATH CLASS IS TOUGH!” FEMISTS RAILED AT THE DOLL, SPIRG A CLASSIC EPISO OF THE SIMPSONS THAT READS SORT OF LIKE A FIRST DRAFT FOR GERWIG’S BARBIE MOVIE.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.EARRG MAGIC KENWHEN BARBIE (MARGOT ROBBIE) AND KEN (RYAN GOSLG) ROLLERBLA TO VENICE BEACH, KEN MOMENTARILY FDS HIMSELF RECEIVG APPRECIATIVE GLANC OM TWO QUEER-D BYSTANRS. THOSE GUYS MAY HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE EXCED TO MEET ANOTHER WEIRD BARBIE PAL: EARRG MAGIC KEN (TOM STOURTON THE MOVIE), RELEASED 1993. HE WAS CLAD PURPLE LEATHER AND MH; HE HAD, OF URSE, A SGLE GLEAMG HOOP EARRG. MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHHOLLYWOOD ELE RH TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE THE STRIKE ENDSBY MARIE LODIHE WAS PART OF THE PANY’S NEW EARRG MAGIC LE, BUT IMMEDIATELY STOOD APART AFTER BEG UNOFFICIALLY ADOPTED BY THE GAY MUNY—NOT LEAST BEE OF THE STUNNG SILVER PENDANT HE WORE AROUND HIS NECK. (FANS LIKE SEX ADVICE LUMNIST DAN SAVAGE TERPRETED THE JEWELRY UH, DIFFERENTLY THAN MATTEL DID. “IT’S A NECKLACE. IT HOLDS CHARMS HE N SHARE WH BARBIE,” A SPOKWOMAN TOLD HIM AT THE TIME. “C’MON, THIS IS A DOLL SIGNED FOR LTLE GIRLS.”) HE WAS MEANT TO MAKE GIRLS THK KEN WAS OL. INSTEAD, HE GOT A BUNCH OF OL MEN TO THK KEN WAS OL, WHICH IS HONTLY A MORE IMPRSIVE ACHIEVEMENT.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.SUGAR’S DADDY (OR IS IT SUGAR DADDY?) KENBY 2009—11 YEARS AFTER WILL & GRACE BUTED!—ONE MIGHT EXPECT MATTEL TO HAVE GROWN WISER TO THE WAYS S PRODUCTS WOULD BE TERPRETED BY ADULTS. THAT WAS THE YEAR THE PANY RELEASED SUGAR’S DADDY KEN (NOTE THE POSSSIVE NOUN!), PART OF S PALM BEACH LE OF TOYS AIMED AT GROWN-UP LLECTORS. SUGAR’S DADDY (PLAYED BY ROB BRYDON THE FILM) ME WH A WELL-TAILORED PAISLEY BLAZER, A SMART PAIR OF WHE LOAFERS, AND A TEENY WHE TERRIER ON A PK LEASH. THAT WOULD BE SUGAR. “THE LTLE DOG’S NAME IS ACTUALLY SUGAR,” A MATTEL SPOKWOMAN TOLD THE NEW YORK POST AT THE TIME. “THAT’S WHERE THE NAME OM. HE’S SUGAR’S DADDY, AS A REFERENCE TO THE DOG.” UH HUH. SPEAKG TO ABC NEWS, THE PANY SEEMED SLIGHTLY MORE SELF-AWARE. “AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS LLECTN IS TARGETED TOWARD ADULTS,” A SPOKWOMAN TOLD THE OUTLET. “WHILE THE NAME OF THE DOLL DO REFER BACK TO THE DOG, I THK PEOPLE ARE GOG TO TERPRET AS THEY WANT TO TERPRET .” SO THIS SE, AT LEAST, THE JOKE MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE RT OF .MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)HILLARY BIS
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- ‘OH COME ON!’: MATT GAETZ EMBARRASS HIMSELF ON ‘THE VIEW’NOT SINCE DON JR.THE REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SEARCHED FOR A LIFELE MEGHAN MCCA, BUT SHE WAS LOATH TO GIVE ONE TO HIM.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED FEB. 20, 2020 6:30PM EST / PUBLISHED FEB. 20, 2020 1:10PM EST THE VIEW/ABCIT WAS AWKWARD OM THE START. AFTER NOTG THAT THEIR NEXT GUT HAS BEEN ONE OF DONALD TMP’S MOST LOYAL SUPPORTERS “SCE DAY ONE,” JOY BEHAR TRODUCED REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL) AS “A MAN WHO HAS OBVLY NEVER WATCHED THE VIEW.” “I DO WATCH,” GAETZ SISTED. “YOU GUYS MAKE NEWS EVERY WEEK.” THEN ME HIS FIRST ATTEMPT AT A JOKE. “I WAS JT WONRG IF YOU WERE WEARG BLACK AS A NSEQUENCE OF THE ATH OF THE POLIL LEFT THE BATE LAST NIGHT,” HE SAID TO NEAR SILENCE OM THE CROWD AND -HOSTS. “IT WAS QUE SOMETHG TO OBSERVE.”WHEN BEHAR PHED BACK, GAETZ ADD, “WELL, JOE BIN AT LEAST. I WAS HOPG THAT MAYBE WHOOPI'S BELL ULD WAKE UP THE BIN MPAIGN.” WHOOPI GOLDBERG JT GLARED AT HIM. AS GAETZ PROCEED TO ATTACK THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD, BEHAR SAID, “LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR BOSS FOR A SEND.” HE CLEARLY KNEW SHE WAS REFERRG TO TMP, BUT SHOT BACK, “MY BOSS ARE THE PEOPLE OF NORTHWT FLORIDA,” TO WHICH BEHAR ROLLED HER EY AND ADD, “YEAH, OK.” OVER THE URSE OF THE TERVIEW, GAETZ REPEATEDLY SEARCHED FOR A LIFELE THE ONLY NSERVATIVE -HOST AT THE TABLE, BUT MEGHAN MCCA WAS LOATH TO GIVE ONE TO HIM. WHEN THE NGRSMAN FEND TMP’S PICK OF THE UNR-QUALIFIED RICHARD GRENELL AS ACTG DIRECTOR OF NATNAL INTELLIGENCE BY ARGUG THAT “ IS A GOOD THG THIS UNTRY THAT WE DO NOT BAN GAY PEOPLE OM BEG ABLE TO PATRTILLY SERVE THE TELLIGENCE MUNY,” SUNNY HOST CHIMED WH, “JT TRANSGENR PEOPLE.” “WE SHOULDN'T BE BANNG ANYBODY BASED ON WHO THEY ARE OR WHO THEY LOVE. THAT'S NOT THE KD OF REPUBLIN I AM, AND THAT’S NOT THE KD OF REPUBLIN THE PRINT IS,” GAETZ SAID, SPE THE FACT THAT TMP LIBERATELY RESTATED A BAN ON TRANSGENR SERVICE MEMBERS. ALL THE HOSTS ULD DO WAS LGH DISBELIEF. THE LAST STRAW FOR MCCA ME WHEN GAETZ SAID HE SUPPORTED THE IA OF TMP PARDONG ROGER STONE. “OH E ON, NGRSMAN!” SHE SAID. “COME ON, E ON. HE'S THE SWAMPIT SWAMP CREATURE.” “WHEN WE SIGNED OUR CONSTUTN THERE WERE VTIG OF THE BRISH MONARCHY THAT AMERINS STILL HAD SOME REVERENCE FOR, AND ONE WAS THE NOTN THAT THE EXECUTIVE, THAT THE SOVEREIGN, ULD EXTEND UNLIMED GRACE FOR ANY REASON,” GAETZ EXPLAED. “DID YOU JT SAY THE SOVEREIGN?” GOLDBERG ASKED. “SO TMP IS THE KG?” BEHAR ADD.BY THE END OF THE SEGMENT, GAETZ WAS RATTLG OFF TMP’S LIST OF SUPPOSED “EP STATE” BOOGEYMEN CLUDG PETER STROZK, LISA PAGE, AND ANDREW MCCABE AND ALLEGG A “DOUBLE STANDARD” WHEN TO PARDON POWER. HE HAD NO FENSE, HOWEVER, WHEN ME TO TMP’S PARDON OF ROD BLAGOGEVICH, EXPLAG, “I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE ERNOR OF ILLOIS SO I'M NOT GOG TO GET TO THAT ONE.” “CONGRSMAN, I UNRSTAND THAT REPUBLINS G ON THE VIEW, THIS IS A GREAT CULTURE-WAR PLACE TO E AND SHOW THE LEFTISTS WHAT'S GOG ON,” MCCA SAID EVENTUALLY, PERHAPS ALLUDG TO DONALD TMP JR.’S NOISY APPEARANCE ON THE SHOW LAST FALL. “I GET . MY HBAND WORKS NSERVATIVE MEDIA.” AS A “HARDRE NSERVATIVE” WHO’S “NOT A TMPER,” SHE WANTED GAETZ TO SPEAK TO THE “CHARACTER ISSU” THAT ULD PREVENT LLEGE-TED NSERVATIVE WOMEN OM STICKG WH THE PRINT 2020.BUT STEAD OF MOUNTG A FENSE OF TMP, GAETZ FELL FLAT ON HIS FACE. “WELL, LOOK, IF CHEATG ON YOUR WIFE IS A DISQUALIFITN TO BE PRINT, THEN Y’ALL PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE IMPEACHED BILL CLTON,” HE SAID.WHEN BEHAR AND GOLDBERG SIMULTANEOLY REMD HIM THAT “THEY DID,” GAETZ STAMMERED, “BUT NOT WH ALL OF YOU WAVG ANY POMPOMS.” “I’M SORRY, I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS,” GOLDBERG SAID. “IT MEANS NOTHG,” BEHAR HELPFULLY EXPLAED. AND THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH . MATT WILSTE
REP. MATT GAETZ SISTS HE’S “NOT GAY” AFTER REVEALG HIS 19-YEAR-OLD “SON” WHO HE “LOV VERY MUCH”
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BARBIE’S WEIRDO DOLLS: ALL ABOUT MIDGE, EARRG MAGIC KEN, AND MOREGRETA GERWIG’S MOVIE CLUS WKY MEOS OM SOME OF MATTEL’S MOST FAMO DISNTUED PRODUCTS—AND AT LEAST ONE THAT’S STILL AVAILABLE STOR.BY HILLARY BISJULY 21, 2023COURTY OF MATTEL INC.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEALAS, YOU NNOT BUY A WEIRD BARBIE DOLL WHO LOOKS LIKE KATE MCKNON—YOU’LL JT HAVE TO CHOP OFF A REGULAR DOLL’S HAIR AND SCRIBBLE ON HER FACE YOURSELF. BUT YOU N BUY A VERSN OF THE POOPG BARBIE DOG THAT WEIRD BARBIE LIV WH GRETA GERWIG’S BARBIE. THE PLASTIC PET PACKAGED WH A BARBIE WEARG A STRIPED SWEATER AND SPORTY SNEAKERS; S OFFICIALLY SANCTNED NAME IS THE BARBIE WALK AND POTTY PUP. “WHEN ’S TIME FOR A POTTY BREAK, PH ON THE PUPPY’S TAIL,” THE AD PY READS. “BARBIE DOLL N CLEAN UP G THE BROOM AND SOPER.” CONGRATULATNS, KID. HERE’S A PILE OF CRAP!BARBIE IS A MERCHANDISER’S DREAM, A GENERALLY WELL-RECEIVED, ENARGLY SUBVERSIVE PRODUCT THAT’S STILL, AT HEART, A GLORIFIED TWO-HOUR TOY MERCIAL. BUT TO THE FILM’S CRED, DON’T SHY AWAY OM REFERENCG SOME OF MATTEL’S ODR OFFERGS. ACRDG TO A NEW YORKER ARTICLE, THE FETG DOG IS ACTUALLY BASED ON TANNER, A BARBIE ACCSORY OM THE GHTS THAT ATE S OWN POOP—Y!—AND WAS EVENTUALLY RELLED NOT FOR BEG DISGTG, BUT BEE THE MAG SI BARBIE’S POOPER SOPER ULD E LOOSE AND BE SWALLOWED BY A CHILD. (THE WALK AND POTTY PUP APPEARS TO BE SENTIALLY THE SAME TOY, M MAGS.) BELOW, WE TAKE STOCK OF MORE TOYS LIKE TANNER: THE REAL-LIFE WEIRD BARBI THAT DREW PLATS, RISN, AND CELEBRATN AS ACCINTAL GAY INS. PROT BARBIE IS NOT AMONG THEM—AT LEAST, NOT YET.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.MIDGEEMERALD FENNELL HAS A GLORIFIED MEO BARBIE AS MIDGE, A REDHEAD DOLL WH A BUN THE OVEN. Y, THAT’S RIGHT: MIDGE IS PREGNANT. THAT DIFFERENTIAT THE MOVIE’S VERSN OF THE DOLL OM HER ORIGAL RNATN, LNCHED 1963 AS BARBIE’S MORE APPROACHABLE BT PAL. SHE WAS DISNTUED 1967, THEN RETRODUCED 1987, AGA THE ’90S, AND, MOST FAMOLY, ONE MORE TIME THE GHTS, AS PART OF THE “HAPPY FAY” SET—WHICH GAVE MIDGE A TY DOLL BABY THAT ULD BE PLACED EHER A BULGG STOMACH (WHICH GIRLS ULD MAGILLY ATTACH AND TACH OM MIDGE’S MIDDLE) OR “BORN” OUT OF THAT SAME PLASTIC DOME. HER HBAND AND THREE-YEAR-OLD SON WERE SOLD SEPARATELY.GGER GAETZ, WIFE OF MATT, ANNOUNCED TUDAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN THE BARBIE MOVIE, AND WAS DISAPPOTED BY PART DUE TO THE FILM’S “UNFAIR TREATMENT OF PREGNANT BARBIE MIDGE.” IRONIC, SCE NSERVATIVE IRE WAS STMENTAL GETTG HAPPY FAY MIDGE NCELED. “IT’S A BAD IA. IT PROMOT TEENAGE PREGNANCY. WHAT WOULD AN 8-YEAR-OLD OR 12-YEAR-OLD GET OUT OF THAT DOLL BABY?” ONE MOTHER ASKED THE ASSOCIATED PRS 2002. THE DOLL WAS PULLED OM WAL-MART DUE TO PLATS; JT AS NARRATOR HELEN MIRREN TELLS BARBIE, SHE WAS EVENTUALLY AXED OM THE MATTEL LP ALTOGETHER FOR BEG “TOO WEIRD.” BUT PERHAPS MIDGE GETS THE LAST LGH: ACRDG TO AT LEAST ONE LLECTOR, SHE’S NOW WORTH UP TO $400 MT NDN.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.ALLANREMEMBER HOW MIDGE HAD A HBAND? THAT WOULD BE ALLAN, PLAYED THE MOVIE BY A VERY GAME MICHAEL CERA. ORIGALLY TRODUCED 1964, HE WAS CREATED TO BE KEN’S BT BUDDY. (BARBIE WAS NAMED FOR CREATOR RUTH HANDLER’S DGHTER, AND KEN FOR HER SON; ALLAN WAS NAMED FOR HER THEN-SON--LAW, ALLEN SEGAL.) KEN AND ALLAN ARE VERY CLOSE; AS CERA TELLS THE MOVIE, “ALL HIS CLOTH F ME” (A LE STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MERCIALS). LIKE MIDGE, ALLAN’S BEEN AND OUT OF THE BARBIE UNIVERSE FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS—MOSTLY OUT. MATTEL HASN’T YET RELEASED AN ALLAN BARBIE TIE- DOLL, BUT GIVEN HOW FUNNY CERA IS THE FILM, THEY REALLY SHOULD.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHHOLLYWOOD ELE RH TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE THE STRIKE ENDSBY MARIE LODICOURTY OF MATTEL, INC.VIO GIRL BARBIEDEEP WH WEIRD BARBIE’S GONZO DREAMHOE LURKS VIO GIRL BARBIE (METTE NARRATIVE), WHO LOOKS LIKE AN ODDY OM THE 90S BUT WAS ACTUALLY TRODUCED JT 13 YEARS AGO. AS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WROTE AT THE TIME, VIO GIRL “HAS A GAPG HOLE HER CHT, DISGUISED AS A FASHN PENDANT, THAT NTAS A MERA LENS.” IT’S NNECTED TO THE VIO SCREEN EMBEDD TO HER BACK. THE IA WAS THAT GIRLS ULD E THE DOLLS TO RERD AND PLAY THEIR OWN HOME MOVI. (THIS WAS 2010, REMEMBER, YEARS BEFORE WAS POSSIBLE TO SHOOT A WELL-RECEIVED DIE MOVIE ENTIRELY ON AN IPHONE.) WH THE PACY TO PTURE ABOUT 25 MUT OF FOOTAGE, USB PATIBILY, AND EE EDG SOFTWARE, YOU N IMAGE THE DOLL BEG A H WH FUTURE GRETA GERWIGS. INSTEAD, VIO GIRL WAS CENSURED BY—AND THIS IS TE—THE FBI, WHICH ISSUED AN ADVISORY SAYG THAT THE DOLL ULD POTENTIALLY BE ED TO RERD CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. PERHAPS NEEDLS TO SAY, MATTEL NO LONGER SELLS VIO GIRL BARBIE.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.GROWG UP SKIPPERANOTHER ONE OM THE BAD IA FIL, THIS DOLL—ALSO BANISHED TO WEIRD BARBIE’S HOE OF NIGHTMAR THE FILM, WHERE SHE’S PLAYED BY HANNAH KHALIQUE-BROWN—IS THE VERSN OF BARBIE’S LTLE SISTER RELEASED 1975 THAT “GROWS AS HER FIGURE MATUR.” MEANG WHEN YOU TURN HER ARM, SHE GETS TALLER…AND HER BOOBS SWELL. NOPE!MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHHOLLYWOOD ELE RH TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE THE STRIKE ENDSBY MARIE LODICOURTY OF MATTEL, INC.TEEN TALK BARBIERELEASED 1992 (AND PLAYED ONSCREEN BY MARISA ABELA), TEEN TALK BARBIE HAD A VOICE BOX THAT SHE ED TO SAY THGS LIKE “LET’S PLAN OUR DREAM WEDDG!” AND “MATH CLASS IS TOUGH!” FEMISTS RAILED AT THE DOLL, SPIRG A CLASSIC EPISO OF THE SIMPSONS THAT READS SORT OF LIKE A FIRST DRAFT FOR GERWIG’S BARBIE MOVIE.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.EARRG MAGIC KENWHEN BARBIE (MARGOT ROBBIE) AND KEN (RYAN GOSLG) ROLLERBLA TO VENICE BEACH, KEN MOMENTARILY FDS HIMSELF RECEIVG APPRECIATIVE GLANC OM TWO QUEER-D BYSTANRS. THOSE GUYS MAY HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE EXCED TO MEET ANOTHER WEIRD BARBIE PAL: EARRG MAGIC KEN (TOM STOURTON THE MOVIE), RELEASED 1993. HE WAS CLAD PURPLE LEATHER AND MH; HE HAD, OF URSE, A SGLE GLEAMG HOOP EARRG. MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHHOLLYWOOD ELE RH TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE THE STRIKE ENDSBY MARIE LODIHE WAS PART OF THE PANY’S NEW EARRG MAGIC LE, BUT IMMEDIATELY STOOD APART AFTER BEG UNOFFICIALLY ADOPTED BY THE GAY MUNY—NOT LEAST BEE OF THE STUNNG SILVER PENDANT HE WORE AROUND HIS NECK. (FANS LIKE SEX ADVICE LUMNIST DAN SAVAGE TERPRETED THE JEWELRY UH, DIFFERENTLY THAN MATTEL DID. “IT’S A NECKLACE. IT HOLDS CHARMS HE N SHARE WH BARBIE,” A SPOKWOMAN TOLD HIM AT THE TIME. “C’MON, THIS IS A DOLL SIGNED FOR LTLE GIRLS.”) HE WAS MEANT TO MAKE GIRLS THK KEN WAS OL. INSTEAD, HE GOT A BUNCH OF OL MEN TO THK KEN WAS OL, WHICH IS HONTLY A MORE IMPRSIVE ACHIEVEMENT.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.SUGAR’S DADDY (OR IS IT SUGAR DADDY?) KENBY 2009—11 YEARS AFTER WILL & GRACE BUTED!—ONE MIGHT EXPECT MATTEL TO HAVE GROWN WISER TO THE WAYS S PRODUCTS WOULD BE TERPRETED BY ADULTS. THAT WAS THE YEAR THE PANY RELEASED SUGAR’S DADDY KEN (NOTE THE POSSSIVE NOUN!), PART OF S PALM BEACH LE OF TOYS AIMED AT GROWN-UP LLECTORS. SUGAR’S DADDY (PLAYED BY ROB BRYDON THE FILM) ME WH A WELL-TAILORED PAISLEY BLAZER, A SMART PAIR OF WHE LOAFERS, AND A TEENY WHE TERRIER ON A PK LEASH. THAT WOULD BE SUGAR. “THE LTLE DOG’S NAME IS ACTUALLY SUGAR,” A MATTEL SPOKWOMAN TOLD THE NEW YORK POST AT THE TIME. “THAT’S WHERE THE NAME OM. HE’S SUGAR’S DADDY, AS A REFERENCE TO THE DOG.” UH HUH. SPEAKG TO ABC NEWS, THE PANY SEEMED SLIGHTLY MORE SELF-AWARE. “AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS LLECTN IS TARGETED TOWARD ADULTS,” A SPOKWOMAN TOLD THE OUTLET. “WHILE THE NAME OF THE DOLL DO REFER BACK TO THE DOG, I THK PEOPLE ARE GOG TO TERPRET AS THEY WANT TO TERPRET .” SO THIS SE, AT LEAST, THE JOKE MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE RT OF .MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)HILLARY BIS
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GAETZ, SANTOS AND GRAHAM: GAY FAC OF M&M CANDY
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‘OH COME ON!’: MATT GAETZ EMBARRASS HIMSELF ON ‘THE VIEW’NOT SINCE DON JR.THE REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SEARCHED FOR A LIFELE MEGHAN MCCA, BUT SHE WAS LOATH TO GIVE ONE TO HIM.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED FEB. 20, 2020 6:30PM EST / PUBLISHED FEB. 20, 2020 1:10PM EST THE VIEW/ABCIT WAS AWKWARD OM THE START. AFTER NOTG THAT THEIR NEXT GUT HAS BEEN ONE OF DONALD TMP’S MOST LOYAL SUPPORTERS “SCE DAY ONE,” JOY BEHAR TRODUCED REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL) AS “A MAN WHO HAS OBVLY NEVER WATCHED THE VIEW.” “I DO WATCH,” GAETZ SISTED. “YOU GUYS MAKE NEWS EVERY WEEK.” THEN ME HIS FIRST ATTEMPT AT A JOKE. “I WAS JT WONRG IF YOU WERE WEARG BLACK AS A NSEQUENCE OF THE ATH OF THE POLIL LEFT THE BATE LAST NIGHT,” HE SAID TO NEAR SILENCE OM THE CROWD AND -HOSTS. “IT WAS QUE SOMETHG TO OBSERVE.”WHEN BEHAR PHED BACK, GAETZ ADD, “WELL, JOE BIN AT LEAST. I WAS HOPG THAT MAYBE WHOOPI'S BELL ULD WAKE UP THE BIN MPAIGN.” WHOOPI GOLDBERG JT GLARED AT HIM. AS GAETZ PROCEED TO ATTACK THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD, BEHAR SAID, “LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR BOSS FOR A SEND.” HE CLEARLY KNEW SHE WAS REFERRG TO TMP, BUT SHOT BACK, “MY BOSS ARE THE PEOPLE OF NORTHWT FLORIDA,” TO WHICH BEHAR ROLLED HER EY AND ADD, “YEAH, OK.” OVER THE URSE OF THE TERVIEW, GAETZ REPEATEDLY SEARCHED FOR A LIFELE THE ONLY NSERVATIVE -HOST AT THE TABLE, BUT MEGHAN MCCA WAS LOATH TO GIVE ONE TO HIM. WHEN THE NGRSMAN FEND TMP’S PICK OF THE UNR-QUALIFIED RICHARD GRENELL AS ACTG DIRECTOR OF NATNAL INTELLIGENCE BY ARGUG THAT “ IS A GOOD THG THIS UNTRY THAT WE DO NOT BAN GAY PEOPLE OM BEG ABLE TO PATRTILLY SERVE THE TELLIGENCE MUNY,” SUNNY HOST CHIMED WH, “JT TRANSGENR PEOPLE.” “WE SHOULDN'T BE BANNG ANYBODY BASED ON WHO THEY ARE OR WHO THEY LOVE. THAT'S NOT THE KD OF REPUBLIN I AM, AND THAT’S NOT THE KD OF REPUBLIN THE PRINT IS,” GAETZ SAID, SPE THE FACT THAT TMP LIBERATELY RESTATED A BAN ON TRANSGENR SERVICE MEMBERS. ALL THE HOSTS ULD DO WAS LGH DISBELIEF. THE LAST STRAW FOR MCCA ME WHEN GAETZ SAID HE SUPPORTED THE IA OF TMP PARDONG ROGER STONE. “OH E ON, NGRSMAN!” SHE SAID. “COME ON, E ON. HE'S THE SWAMPIT SWAMP CREATURE.” “WHEN WE SIGNED OUR CONSTUTN THERE WERE VTIG OF THE BRISH MONARCHY THAT AMERINS STILL HAD SOME REVERENCE FOR, AND ONE WAS THE NOTN THAT THE EXECUTIVE, THAT THE SOVEREIGN, ULD EXTEND UNLIMED GRACE FOR ANY REASON,” GAETZ EXPLAED. “DID YOU JT SAY THE SOVEREIGN?” GOLDBERG ASKED. “SO TMP IS THE KG?” BEHAR ADD.BY THE END OF THE SEGMENT, GAETZ WAS RATTLG OFF TMP’S LIST OF SUPPOSED “EP STATE” BOOGEYMEN CLUDG PETER STROZK, LISA PAGE, AND ANDREW MCCABE AND ALLEGG A “DOUBLE STANDARD” WHEN TO PARDON POWER. HE HAD NO FENSE, HOWEVER, WHEN ME TO TMP’S PARDON OF ROD BLAGOGEVICH, EXPLAG, “I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE ERNOR OF ILLOIS SO I'M NOT GOG TO GET TO THAT ONE.” “CONGRSMAN, I UNRSTAND THAT REPUBLINS G ON THE VIEW, THIS IS A GREAT CULTURE-WAR PLACE TO E AND SHOW THE LEFTISTS WHAT'S GOG ON,” MCCA SAID EVENTUALLY, PERHAPS ALLUDG TO DONALD TMP JR.’S NOISY APPEARANCE ON THE SHOW LAST FALL. “I GET . MY HBAND WORKS NSERVATIVE MEDIA.” AS A “HARDRE NSERVATIVE” WHO’S “NOT A TMPER,” SHE WANTED GAETZ TO SPEAK TO THE “CHARACTER ISSU” THAT ULD PREVENT LLEGE-TED NSERVATIVE WOMEN OM STICKG WH THE PRINT 2020.BUT STEAD OF MOUNTG A FENSE OF TMP, GAETZ FELL FLAT ON HIS FACE. “WELL, LOOK, IF CHEATG ON YOUR WIFE IS A DISQUALIFITN TO BE PRINT, THEN Y’ALL PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE IMPEACHED BILL CLTON,” HE SAID.WHEN BEHAR AND GOLDBERG SIMULTANEOLY REMD HIM THAT “THEY DID,” GAETZ STAMMERED, “BUT NOT WH ALL OF YOU WAVG ANY POMPOMS.” “I’M SORRY, I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS,” GOLDBERG SAID. “IT MEANS NOTHG,” BEHAR HELPFULLY EXPLAED. AND THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH . MATT WILSTE
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