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The LAX Plan to Foil Paparazzi
A new terminal to shield
celebrities, and anyone else
willing to pay, from airport
lines and photographers
BY SCOTT MCCARTNEY
WILL A-LISTERS NIX
AIRPORT PIX ?!?
Celebrities often get swamped by press and fans when
flying through Los Angeles International Airport.
Entertainers passing through there recently include,
clockwise from top, Kate Winslet, Victoria Beckham,
Kanye West, Kate Beckinsale and Christian Bale. Several,
including Reese Witherspoon, have written to the airport
supporting a plan for a secluded terminal.
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Los Angeles
The photo of a celebrity, head
down and sunglasses on, walking
through a scrum of paparazzi and
fans at Los Angeles International
Airport is a staple of entertainment blogs and magazines.
LAX may make that shot much
rarer.
Plagued by paparazzi disrupting terminals and security checkpoints, LAX is set to approve plans
to convert a cargo office into a
small new terminal that will allow
passengers to drive into a secluded entrance, get screened by
the Transportation Security Administration privately and be
driven across the airfield straight
to the stairs to board their flights.
Cost of avoiding the chaos and
crowds: $1,500 to $1,800 each trip.
And you don’t have to be a star to
use it.
The Los Angeles Suite, which is
expected to win approval by the
Board of Airport Commissioners
on Thursday, will be modeled after
the dozen or so private terminals
at major airports around the
world, such as the Windsor Suite
at London’s Heathrow Airport.
The idea for the terminal was
proposed by Gavin de Becker & Associates, the well-known Los Angeles security firm for celebrities
and government figures, which
also will operate it. It plans to
open in six to eight months, first
in temporary buildings while the
permanent facility is constructed.
Travel is full of levels of service: different classes on airplanes,
different lines for customers in
airports, fancy clubs available to
fliers who pay more. This is the
highest level on the ground, and it
will be open to anyone willing to
pay for a speedy, hassle-free glide
through the airport. About 10% of
the 100 or so customers expected
a day will be celebrities, Mr. de
Becker estimates.
Pricey as the private terminal
is, Hollywood studios and others
are backing the idea as a cost savings. They often pay for stars to
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Even Barbie Wants a ‘Makeunder’
BY ANNE MARIE CHAKER
F. MARTIN RAMIN/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, STYLING BY ANNE CARDENAS
Kick off your heels, Barbie. The
fashion doll of today may have an
average waistline and comfortable
shoes.
The doll shelf at stores looks
like a jumble of girls’ fantasies.
There are still fairies and princesses, but increasingly dolls depict stylish and gutsy motifs that
stress the idea of individuality.
There are monsters, multicolored
hairdos and computer engineers.
Some 56 years after Barbie
launched, toy companies are trying
to figure out what girls want.
Plenty of parents have bristled at
giving their daughters the impossibly proportioned and fair-haired
doll. The demand for dolls that
defy prettiness and realistically
depict girls’ lives is reaching a
new boiling point. Many parents
still value doll-play, but they want
to encourage children to be themselves. Inclusive has become cool.
Several companies are coming out
with new dolls and Mattel Inc. is
trying to change Barbie’s image.
A new African-American girl
doll wearing a printed flower skirt
New Faces in the Doll Aisle
Dolls are becoming more about action and less about prettiness. Mattel is working
to change Barbie’s image. Left to right, Barbie Fashionistas, My Little Pony
Equestria Girls Twilight Sparkle, Lammily’s Traveler, the ziplining GoldieBlox doll,
Equestria Girls Flash Sentry, Ken and Monster High’s Iris Clops.
and holding a camera is expected
to be launched March 1 by Lammily. Creator Nickolay Lamm referred to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data to come
up with an average 19-year old female’s body shape. A website taking preorders says she is made “to
promote realistic beauty standards
and help your child develop a positive body image!”
The $25 Traveler doll by Lammily came out last November and
comes dressed in a button-down
shirt, jean shorts and sneakers.
She looks like “a person walking
down the street,” says Mr. Lamm,
“not Miss Universe.” Shoppers can
also buy accessories for the dolls
including stick-on scars, bandages
and grass stains.
GoldieBlox Inc. came out with
Ruby Rails, an African-American
doll that comes with a working
parachute and whose name references a software language. The
Oakland, Calif.-based company also
put out a new girl-power ad on
YouTube, where Ruby plays out 15
different male movie hero scenes.
The company’s Goldie doll
made its debut last November with
an ad that depicts a girl in overalls
messing up a factory line of Barbie-like dolls. It says, “Fashion
dolls teach girls to value beauty
over brains.”
Maya Tacheff, a nine-year old
fourth-grader at Maya Lin School
in Alameda, Calif., says she played
with Barbie dolls when she was six
or seven, sometimes making
clothes for them. These days, however, she prefers her GoldieBlox
doll. “It’s like me,” she says.
Mattel’s iconic brand is in the
middle of the storm and it is
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