Barbie has unveiled its Career of the Year dolls, which highlight positions in which women are underrepresented. For 2024, Mattel debuts a set featuring Barbie in four moviemaking roles, inspired and sparked in part by the commercial and critical success of the Greta Gerwig-directed feature film, Barbie.
The four new dolls are:
- Barbie Studio Executive doll with an original body wears a two-piece outfit, comes with shoes and sunglasses, and includes a smartphone play piece.
- Barbie Director doll with a tall body wears a jumpsuit, shoes and headset, and comes with a movie script play piece.
- Barbie Movie Star doll with a curvy body wears a glamorous gown and heels, accessorizes with a necklace and bracelet, and comes with an award trophy.
- Barbie Cinematographer doll with a petite body wears a “Chase Dreams” top, plus pants and shoes, and comes with camera and clapboard accessories.
Barbie has worked in more than 250 professions–and counting–over the years. The filmmaking dolls add to that field of career possibilities.
From last night (1/9) through January 11 at 5:59am PT, Barbie Signature members can buy the Barbie Career of the Year Women in Film doll set at the Mattel Creations website while supplies last. During that time, the doll set may also be available online at Amazon, Target and Walmart.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults โ two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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