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Anita Borg

In 1992, when Mattel Inc. began selling a Barbie doll that said math class is tough, the voices of protest that started with the Systers list played a role in getting Mattel to remove that phrase from Barbie's microchip.

Antonio Morelli

The greatest names in the entertainment industry graced the Copa Room Stage (the showroom at the Sands, named after the famed Copacabana Club in New York City) including Judy Garland, Lena Horne, (she was billed at the Sands as "The Satin Doll") Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, along with "The Copa Girls".

As the Stomach Turns

The sudden dropping of young characters was humorously spoofed in As the Stomach Turns by Marion's daughter (played by Vicki Lawrence) arriving at the door holding a baby and announcing, "Hi, Mom. I've had a baby," and immediately dropping the baby (a doll) into the umbrella stand next to the door.

Bangkok Doll Museum

The Bangkok Dolls Museum was established in 1957 by Khunying Thongkorn Chanthawimol, who was a renowned doll maker who trained in the Ozawa Doll School, in Tokyo, Japan.

Barra Grant

Grant was born Barbara Carol Wayne in New York, New York, the daughter of Allan Wayne, a doll company executive, and Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945.

Betty Spaghetty

Betty Spaghetty is a bendable rubber doll from the Ohio Art Company.

Bild Lilli doll

Ariel Levy refers to her as a "sex doll" in Female Chauvinist Pigs and in interviews on the Lilli-inspired Barbie doll, Eve Ensler refers to Lilli (without elaboration) as a "sex toy".

Captain Action

The comic book story line had little to do with the toy concept, as some of the heroes licensed for use as costumes for the Captain Action doll were not owned and published by DC (Spider-Man and Captain America for example, were Marvel Comics characters), therefore the ability to change into different characters was entirely dropped.

Charles Fitzroy Doll

The hotel's restaurant, now named Fitzroy Doll's, is said to be almost identical to the RMS Titanic`s dining room which he also designed.

Coppélia

In episode 2 of the anime Coppelion Aoi stated that their unit was named after "Coppélia", saying that just like Coppélia, a beautiful life size doll created by Dr. Coppelius, they were living dolls created by genetic engineering.

Doll on a Music Box

In 1992 "Doll on a Music Box" was re-enacted as part of a surrealistic sequence of the 1992 film, Arizona Dream starring Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway and Lili Taylor.

Fashion doll

British designer Mary Quant's Daisy doll from 1973 had a large selection of contemporary 70s fashion designed by Quant.

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll (8 October 1750, Veilsdorf bei Hildburghausen - 30 March 1816, Gotha) was a German sculptor.

Fudêncio e Seus Amigos

Fudêncio born as a doll that appeared in the programs of João Gordo.

Gerry McNamara

The doll was featured on the Scranton-set television show The Office, placed on the desk of the character of Dwight Schrute.

Hot Swing!

The album draws upon the works of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli (and the Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, and Billy Strayhorn standard, Satin Doll) in addition to original works by O'Connor and Burr.

I Feel Sick

A doll version of Spooky can be seen in Layla Miller's room in Marvel comics House of M event.

Jun Maeda

Maeda wrote and composed the two songs "Doll", performed separately by Lia and Aoi Tada, and "Human", performed by Lia; both versions of "Doll" were used as the main ending theme songs for the second season of the anime series Gunslinger Girl in 2008, while "Human" was used for the final episode.

Kazunori Tani

Hideshi Hino's Occult Detective Club: The Doll Cemetery (2004), as Makihara Daisuke (牧原 大介)

Lapsiporno.info

Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) have noticed that the blacklist includes non-pornographic websites also, including a Windows advice forum, a computer repair service and the Internet Initiative Japan server nn.iij4u.or.jp that, among others, hosts websites for a violin factory, a doll store and a hearing aid manufacturer.

Maciej Michalski

Having completed SCANDA and many music videos, he made new picture featuring Justyna Steczkowska – THE DOLL’S HOUSE.

Moby Doll

Moby Doll was shown to the public in a pen at Burrard Drydocks but was listless and did not eat for the first two months in captivity.

Monchhichi

The American cartoon series Monchhichis was produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1983 and aired on ABC in an effort to promote the doll line.

My Living Doll

According to The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, My Living Doll is the source of the science fiction phrase "Does not compute" in popular culture.

Norge, Virginia

Other landmarks in Norge include the former Doll Factory, the former Williamsburg Soap and Candle Factory, Our Savior's Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Norge Train Depot, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Nutcracker Fantasy

As she takes back the doll, she's confronted by the leader of the mice, a two-headed rat queen (Jo Anne Worley).

Party Doll

After pressing copies of the record, a DJ in Amarillo began playing "Party Doll" in 1956 and it soon became a regional hit.

Polka Dot Shorts

Marigold (Voiced by Alisa Walton) A kindhearted doll with orange yarn like hair in pigtails.

Potato head

Mr. Potato Head, a popular children's doll, consisting of a plastic model of a potato

Primitive Cool

In 1999, Mary Chapin Carpenter covered the song "Party Doll" from Primitive Cool, as the title track of her compilation, Party Doll and Other Favorites.

Puppenspiel

Puppenspiel (German for "Doll Play") is the sixth studio album released by the Neue Deutsche Härte band Unheilig.

Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire

There are several references to other games or movies in magician Keapon Laffin's shop: a doll of princess Rosella (from the King's Quest series), a Cookie Monster doll, and an antwerp doll (a reference to the first game), among other things.

Ray Lawler

In 1972, he visited Australia for the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Man Who Shot the Albatross, a version of the Governor Bligh story; and then in 1975 returned to settle in Australia as associate director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, with an agreement to complete a trilogy based on Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

Re-Ment

Targeted at the adult collecting community, these 1:6 scale toys are typically displayed in dioramas and dollhouses or used with action figures and fashion dolls such as Blythe or Barbie.

Republic of the Children

The Municipal Bank is a copy of the Child Doge's Palace in Venice, while the Palace of Culture was inspired by the Taj Mahal in Agra; among the well-known halls in the latter building the Carlos Moneo Sáenz Doll Museum.

Ronnie Dove

In 1959, they recorded their debut single "Lover Boy" as well as a cover of the Buddy Knox hit "Party Doll" before Ronnie went solo with Diamond Records.

Ruthmere Mansion

In the hallway are a doll collection, a grandfather clock and art hanging on the walls and stairwell, including The Lost Profile by William Morris Hunt, a portrait of the painters' wife, and a self-portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse.

Sara and Dara dolls

100,000 of the dolls were made in the first round of production by a manufacturer in Hong Kong.

Seniora Doll

Seniora Doll or Senora Doll was a Sherbro princess or 'Duchess' of the Ya Kumba ruling house of the Yawry Bay Area between the Sierra Leone peninsula and the Sherbro estuary.

Special Studies Film II

The film is sometimes referred to by the titles Special Studies I Film II and Killer Doll. The music heard during the film is the theme music to Hey, Stop Stabbing Me! composed by one of the stars Sean Hall, along with fellow actor and musician Jack Shreck.

Still Doll

"Still Doll" is the debut single from singer and cellist Kanon Wakeshima.

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

After continuing to tour Australia through 1958, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll was adapted by Leslie Norman for Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions – whose first film had been Marty with Ernest Borgnine – for United Artists in 1959.

Ted V. Mikels

Six of these titles included 10 Violent Women, The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders, The Corpse Grinders II, Girl in Gold Boots and Blood Orgy of the She-Devils, all of which Alpha later released as a six-DVD set titled Ted V. Mikels Signature Collection, which was autographed by Mikels.

Teen Trends

When the Bratz Wild Wild West line was created MGA Entertainment released a doll named Kiana, Mattel's doll, Kianna, had a totally different personality.

The Blue Velvets

Max Weiss, one of Fantasy's co-owners initially changed the group's name to The Visions, but when their songs were released as a single, in November 1964, Weiss renamed them The Golliwogs, an apparent reference to a once-popular minstrel doll called a Golliwogg.

The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story

The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story is a children's novel by Mary Downing Hahn.

The Ecologist

The 1998 Cancer issue discussed the human influences on the increasing number of cancer cases and questioned the views of Sir Richard Doll, who was then seen as an expert in the field.

The Melancholy Fantastic

The film features a life-size talking muslin doll named Mor and was filmed in Wallingford, Connecticut and Monroe, Connecticut.

The Shackshakers

• You Drive Me Insane
• Please Don't Tell Me (featuring Joe Terry of The Morells)
• Sweet Nothins
• (She's My) Rockabilly Baby
• When Will This Heartache End (featuring Bill Cowsill)
• The Ballad Of Desiree
• Morse Code Of Love
• Hey Doll Baby
• I'll Find A Way
• Hurricane (featuring Steve Bloomfield of Matchbox)
• Lotta Lovin' (featuring The Roses)
• No Other Love
• Hit The Brakes
• They Don't Know

Voyage, voyage

Japanese Jpop Duo Wink also covered it on 1993 by the name Eien no Lady Doll ~Voyage Voyage~.


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