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239 "When the film came out, we had many rentals to clinics.": Telephone interview with Christine Vachon, March 2, 1994.
239 "And they said no. . . . That really disappointed me": Haynes quoted by John Anderson in "The Final Cut," New York Newsday, April 4, 1991.
240 "When Karen Carpenter died of anorexia . . .": Christine Alt quoted by Marjorie Rosen in "Eating Disorders: A Hollywood History," People, February 17, 1992, pp. 96-99.
241 "When I first started modeling . . .": Telephone interview with Lauren Hutton, August 26, 1993. (All Hutton quotations are from this interview.)
241 "I thought it would be cool . . .": Interview with Glenn O'Brien, September 4, 1992.
241 "I ate nothing. I mean nothing": Beverly Johnson quoted by Rosen, op. cit.
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE BARBIE
244 "I'm registered with the British Internal Revenue Service . . .": Telephone interview with Cindy Jackson, April 13, 1993; in New York City, May 12, 1993. (All Jackson quotations are from these interviews.)
247 "ROSANNE'S HUBBY IN PLOT TO ROB BANK," etc. National Enquirer headlines, January 12, 1993, p. 1.
247 "Well, we're not in a perfect feminist world": Liz Logan, "Roseanne's Biggest Change," The Ladies' Home Journal, November 1993, p. 276.
249 "Although Cindy has always talked about this Barbie doll image . . .": Telephone interview with Dr. Edward Latimer-Sayer, April 19, 1993. (All Latimer-Sayer quotations are from this interview.)
251 Researchers at Dow Corning knew silicone harmed immune systems in mice: Sandra Blakeslee, "Dow Found Silicone Danger in 1975 Study, Lawyers Sav," The New York Times, April 7, 1994, p. A18.
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252 Telephone interview with the performance artist who masterminded the BLO, January 18, 1993. (All of this artist's quotations are from this interview.)
257 "I don't think the College of Cardinals used terms . . .": Telephone interview with Robert Sobieszek, February 25, 1994. (All Sobieszek quotations are from this interview.)
259 "If a company . . .": Interview with Deirdre Evans-Prichard, Los Angeles, May 18, 1994.
259 "the polyethelene essence . . .": Telephone interview with Barbara Bell, March 24, 1993.
259 "Wrhen I was a little girl . . .": Telephone interview with Grace Hartigan, April 28, 1994. (All Hartigan quotations are from this interview.)
261 "The portrait looks so bad . . .": Pat Hackett, ed., The Andy Warhol Diaries (New York: Warner Books, 1989), p. 713.
261 "I want to capture the soul of plastic": Telephone interview with Beauregard Houston Montgomery and Mel Odom, April 7, 1993. (All Odom quotations are from this interview.)
262 "The arid scimitar . . .": Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981) p. 38.
262 "It's about being angry about everybody wanting to look like a Barbie": Interview with Maggie Robbins, Brooklyn, New York, January 17, 1993. (All Robbins quotations are from this interview.)
263 "It was definitely cathartic for me . . .": Interview with Susan Evans Grove, New York City, June 23, 1992. (All Grove quotations are from this interview.)
264 "Do you have any female friends who look like me . . . ?": Interview with Julia Mandle, New York City, July 8, 1993. (All Mandle quotations are from this interview.)
265 "I wanted the doll to symbolize this kind of glamorous but secondary position": Interview with Ellen Brooks, New York City, November 6, 1992. (All Brooks quotations are from this interview.)
265 "the outstanding fashion doll . . .": A. Glenn Mandeville, Fashion Doll Anthology and Price Guide (Cumberland, Md.: Hobby House Press, 1987), p. 166.
266 "The early Barbie had an attitude . . .": Interview with Ken Botto, New York City, May 12, 1993.
266 "Barbie Noir": Alice Kahn, "A Onetime Bimbo Becomes a Muse," The New York Times, September 29, 1991.
266 "five hundred years of tourism in this country": Interview with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, New York City, November 28, 1992. (All Smith quotations are from this interview.)
267 "glossy decapitated portrait of a hunky male": Interview with Roger Braimon, New York City, June 22, 1993.
268 "the greatest Romantic expositor . . .": Hollander, op. cit., p. 199.
268 "a man's big white handkerchief: Telephone interview with Dean Brown, February 24, 1993. (All Brown quotations are from this interview.)
270 'To me, Barbie dies when she puts on her wedding dress": Telephone interview with Felicia Rosshandler, April 25, 1994.
270 "In the era of AIDS, I'm overwhelmed . . .": Interview with Charles Bell, New York City, January 27, 1993.
270 Details of The Barbie Project-Interview with Lauren Versel, Sag Harbor, New York, August, 16, 1993.
270 Mattel's authorized Berlin show: Barbie: Kiinstler und Designer Gestalten fiir und um Barbie (Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt Ver-lag GmbH, 1994). (Elke Martensen, pp. 212-213; Holger Scheibe, pp. 154-155; Peter Engelhart, pp. 168-169; Frank Lindow, pp. 202-203.)
271 "I wanted people to look at these images . . .": Interview with David Levinthal, New York City, March, 24, 1994. (All Levinthal quotations are from this interview.)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SLAVES OF BARBIE
276 "I stayed at the Beverly Hilton . . ."; Interview with Fiona Auld, Niagara Falls, July 24, 1992.
280 "The bicycle is the most common transportation means . . .": Carol Spencer speech at the Barbie Collectors' Convention, Niagara Falls, New York, July 24, 1992.
281 "our Barbie Dean": Ruth Cronk, ed., The Noname Newsletter, June 1980, p. 8.
281 "got us started on the right foot . . .": The Noname Newsletter, September 1979, p. 2.
281 "in the process of struggling to hold her still . . .": The Noname Newsletter, January 1980, p. 2.
281 "The following day . . .": The Noname Newsletter, June 1980, p. 2.
281 "The thing that really rings . . ." The Noname Newsletter, February 1980, p. 3.
282 "in the objects that are always there . . .": Werner Muensterberger, Collecting: An Unruly Passion (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 16.
283 "What else are collectibles . . .": Ibid., p. 31.
283 "It's an addiction": Interview with Jan Fennick, Rockville Center, New York, October 17, 1992. (All Fennick quotations are from this interview.)
283 "Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects": Benjamin, op. cit., p. 67.
283 "People today are taking Barbie . . .": Interview with A. Glenn Mandeville, Rockville Center, New York, October 17, 1992. (Unless otherwise indicated, all Mandeville quotations from this interview.)
285 "seems to swish off the page": R. L. Pela, "Malibu White House," The Advocate, January 26, 1993, p. 48.
285 "We're not totally object-oriented . . .": Interview with Karen Caviale and Marlene Mura, New York City, February 12, 1993. (All Mura and Caviale quotations are from this interview.)
287 "I belonged to . . .": Interview with Corazon Yellen, Los Angeles, October 30, 1992.
287 "Even though public collections . . .": Benjamin, op. cit., p. 67.
288 "She came out and said . . .": Interviews with Evelyn Burkhalter, Palo Alto, California, July 18, 1992 and April 30, 1993. (All Burkhalter quotations are from these interviews.)
289 "an insulting image of women": Boobs in Toyland.
289 "Billy Boy had a fight with the paparazzi . . .": Hackett, op. cit., p. 741.
289 "They meant everything to me": Offield quoted by Carol Masciola in "Goodby, Dollies as Collector's Treasure Is Lost," Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1992.
290 Details on Bruce Scott Sloggett: Associated Press wire story, October 25, 1992.
290 "It's literally . . .": Interview with Gene Foote, New York City, November 19, 1992.
292 "I don't have the dolls . . .": Telephone interview with Dot Paolo, April 6, 1994.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: BARBIEFACES THE FUTURE
294 "Even a generous mother . . .": Beauvoir,
op. cit., p. 281.
296 He is "an organized and controlled individual . . .": Brenda Herrmann, "Tempo Update," Chicago Tribune, May 12, 1993.
297 Details of John Esposito's abduction of Katie Beers: Michael Salcedo and Gary Witherspoon, "Girl Missing," Newsday, December 30, 1992.
297 "Slap Elvis on anything . . .": Greil Marcus, "The Elvis Strategy," The New York Times, October 27, 1992.
297 For details of the "Math class is tough" flap, see Kevin Sullivan, "Foot-in-Mouth Barbie: Talking Doll's Patter Irks Math Teachers," The Washington Post, September 29, 1992. For details of the AAUW's report, "How Schools Shortchange Girls," which found that after sixth grade, boys tend to do better in math and take higher-level courses, see Laurie M. Gross, "Educators Give Barbie a Good Dressing-Down," The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 1992.
299 "We tried to argue with them . ..": Interview with Maki Papavasliou, El Segundo, California, October 29, 1992.
300 "I always hated you . . .": Susan Cheever, "In a Broken Land," People, May 17, 1993, p. 40.
300 "For a week the American Girl . . .": 'The Plaything of the Century," Sobesednik, No. 26, June 1993.
301 Rand's work: See Polly Shulman, "Guises and Dolls," Lingua Franca, January/February 1994, p. 16.
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