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'Tween Girls Bullish on Fashion Fantasy Game: Online
Fashion Game Gains New Entrepreneurs
NEW YORK, Feb 25, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Fashion Fantasy Game, a
unique fashion game and virtual world for teens and tweens has attracted over
9,000 unique visits and more than 2,500 players in the first month of its
launch. The site is an online "internship" that lets budding entrepreneurs learn
about business while they role play as either fashion designers or store owners
- it's playtime with a bottom line. "I created this new teen fashion game to
help young girls get insights into business, inspire them and broaden their
horizons," explains CEO Nancy Ganz.
Going beyond the paper doll format of other online fashion games,
www.fashionfantasygame.com leverages the world of fashion to explain complex
business concepts, carefully blending professional jargon with teen-speak.
Designers and store owners compete for rankings, ratings and virtual currency
while exploring the effectiveness of marketing, advertising and promotion. There
are multiple levels and players upgrade to paid memberships to enter contests
with real prizes. Fabric selections, manufacturing locations, real estate
choices, trademark options, exclusivity arrangements, and learning to network
within your industry are all thoughtful decisions that are carefully explained.
The game and its sister site R. Lilly Tuckerwear were created by noted female
entrepreneur Nancy Ganz who understands the business of fashion. As the
undisputed inventor of Shapewear, Ganz's Body Slimmers by Nancy Ganz unique
intimate apparel line was successful because she was able to excite a
conservative industry with a revolutionary new product. Ganz likens the game to
an online playground for teens and tweens that inspires and exposes them to
career possibilities for the future.
The developers hope the game will also promote confidence in tween and teen
girls being at an age where they are more susceptible to self-doubt and
accepting a less dominant role in academics, sports and social situations. The
role models of the R. Lilly Tuckerwear Board Members, the assertiveness skills
developed through game-play, and the support of other players is intended to
help girls' self-esteem. According to CMO and partner Nancy Jackson Hodin,
"having heard from girls in the UK, Australia, France and Italy, we can see the
game is having an impact with a global audience."
About R. Lilly Tuckerwear and The Fashion Fantasy Game
R. Lilly Tuckerwear.com and The Fashion Fantasy Game.com are safe and secure
websites geared to girls 8-16, focused on peer-to-peer communications,
confidence-building and learning. R. Lilly Tuckerwear.com is the e-commerce site
for a unique line of girls shape wear designed by Nancy Ganz that specifically
addresses the body image challenges of young girls during these transitional
years. The Fashion Fantasy Game.com is a virtual world and social network that
teaches girls about business while providing entertainment through fashion
games.
In 'Charlie Bartlett,' the Teen Therapist Is In
"Office" hours: Charlie
Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) counsels his peers from
the confines of the high-school boys' room.
Sidney Kimmel
Entertainment
Susan Gardner (Kat Dennings)
and Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) share a
moment at the piano in Bartlett's upscale home
in Charlie Bartlett.
Sidney Kimmel
Entertainment
All Things Considered,
February 22, 2008 · Charlie Bartlett
is a sweet, smart, very privileged kid, who has been kicked out
of every private academy his over-medicated mom has sent him to.
Now, he's about to start at a public school, and he knows
there's a decent chance he won't fit in there either.
Except that Charlie has internalized the language of
psychiatry: He's been in analysis most of his life, his mother
is what you might call pharmaceutically relaxed, and his family
keeps an analyst more or less on-call. And while that didn't set
Charlie apart in prep school, it gives him some advantages in
public school.
With a little anger-management counseling, he has soon tamed
the school bully. And when the other kids notice that, they
start lining up to have him counsel them, too — in a makeshift
office he sets up in a school restroom. Charlie sits in one
stall, his "patients" in the next.
Charlie doesn't just offer common-sense advice; he also does
unto his classmates as his shrinks have been doing unto him,
becoming the school's unofficial psycho-pharmacologist,
dispensing prescription antidepressants that he and his mom
don't need.
At which point, of course, he's an outcast no longer.
Being an outcast has been a popular problem in teen movies
since those Ferris Bueller's Sixteen Breakfast flicks
John Hughes made back in the 1980s. And first-time director Jon
Poll seems to have found his inner Hughes, while working with a
21st-century cast: Anton Yelchin, downright charismatic as
Charlie; Kat Dennings, smart and snarky as his girlfriend Susan;
and in a casting coup, Robert Downey, Jr. — the ultimate teen
bad-boy back in the '80s — still volatile as Charlie's grown-up
nemesis.
All of which makes for a picture that's breezy and sitcom
light, aimed at teens despite its R rating, and accented with a
few grace notes that will appeal to an older crowd. A melody
runs through the film, for instance, that I couldn't place until
it was finally given lyrics at school assembly. It's "If You
Want to Sing Out," the theme from that earlier teen-outcast
movie, Harold and Maude.
Sweet-natured like its hero, Charlie Bartlett, isn't
nearly as edgy or as unpredictable as that picture, but the
rules have changed since then. And Charlie Bartlett is
as sweetly subversive as any teen comedy to come along since
Ferris skipped school.
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