--- On Thu, 1/8/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Barbie & Ken
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 12:34 PM
> Apropos the Barbie thread, this just in from today's
> Popbitch:
>
> > Barbie and Ken were named after the kids of Mattel
> > founders Ruth and Elliot Handler. Ken felt humiliated
> > by this. He got married and had three kids but was
> > a closeted gay and died of AIDS in 1994.
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