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On a daily basis we are confronted with "more speech, not less"—more news reports, more television channels, more publications, more electronic communications. Communications laws have expanded in response to the proliferation of communications, and these laws affect everyone.

Communications lawyer Mark Sableman uses recent case studies, practical examples, and plain language to describe and analyze the broad spectrum of modern communications laws and policies. In these essays, Sableman helps communications professionals as well as informed citizens understand the law.

The constitutional foundation for the information age is settled: radical solutions on either side have been rejected. Neither First Amendment absolutism nor untrammeled content-based censorship will rule in America. But within the remaining middle area, many key policy choices are being made by courts and policy makers. Intricate webs of legal do’s and don’ts, practical pitfalls, and effective safe harbors are being developed across the broad spectrum of communications law.

In this guide to existing law, developing trends, and critical policy determinations, Sableman discusses privacy, Internet communications and policy, censorship, libel and slander, copyright and intellectual property, advertising, broadcasting, and journalistic confidentiality. Through actual cases and practical examples, he examines and explains both the existing rules for communications professionals and the developing policies that deserve the attention and scrutiny of informed citizens. Sableman approaches these subjects as a practicing lawyer experienced in both business and media communications.

The phrase "more speech, not less" describes not only the growing cacophony of the information age, but also one approach to legal policy—Justice Louis D. Brandeis’s preference for "more speech, not enforced silence" in all but the most extreme situations. Drawing from his strong advocacy of free speech, Sableman hopes to stimulate informed debate among all who are concerned about the power of information and the magic of words and images.

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Mastering the Universe: He-Man and the Rise and Fall of a Billion-Dollar Idea
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Mastering The Universe

The rise and fall of the 'He-Man and Masters of Universe' toy line is revealed by the creator himself

This book has very little to do with He-Man the toy, and nothing to do with the TV series

Good gossip about Mattel, but no explanation for the death of He-Man

Mastering the Universe: He-Man and the Rise and Fall of a Billion-Dollar Idea
Roger Sweet , and Wecker David
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Mastering the Universe illuminates the creation, rise, and fall of one of the top-selling product lines in what is arguably the world’s most competitive industry, toys—and it does so from the perspective of Roger Sweet, the man who originated He-Man for Mattel. He-Man and the product line that grew out of it, Masters of the Universe (MOTU), created a fantasy world for boys that, at its height in 1986, reached $400 million in U.S. sales, only to plummet to $7 million the following year. During its six-year run, the MOTU line sold $1.2 billion worldwide and spawned a syndicated cartoon series and a major motion picture—a feat not even the venerable Barbie can claim. Mastering the Universe explores the phenomenon of He-Man’s popularity, as well as the shocking reasons behind the toy’s rapid decline.

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Bitter, Smug, and inaccurate.......2006-10-18

Sometime last year when I was shopping around for He-Man busts on Amazon.com I stumbled upon a book that looked pretty interesting, Mastering the Universe: He-Man and the Rise and Fall of a Billion Dollar Idea by Roger Sweet and David Wecker. The blurb on the back of the book said that the book deals with the conception of the character and figure, including the office politics that influenced the development of the Masters of the Universe toy line, as well as the downfall of the line. Cool. I'd never really had the curtain pulled back on a toy line before. I put it on my wish list and promptly forgot it was there until my parents picked it up for me on my birthday.

I just finished it and I'm not sure what I think. Mainly Roger Sweet, a designer who put in 19 years at Mattel through the 70's and 80's mostly, and who claims to have created He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, wrote it. I say "claims" because the entire book reads like a deposition in a court case where the creative rights to He-Man are in dispute. And they aren't, which made reading this book very painful and the facts presented suspect when I don't even doubt that he created the toy line. See the book is written in a very deceptive manner where the idea that there is a dispute as to whether or not Sweet is He-Man's creator is taken for granted. It's not on either cover, and in the forward there is a brief bit that might foreshadow the dispute, but it's certainly not clear. In fact it's not until the epilogue that Sweet makes this clear (well there is the preceding 200 pages of "he said, she said" that makes it abundantly clear, though it's the why am I reading this that I am waiting for) where he states, "As I look back on the Masters of the Universe, and my relation to all of it, one point strikes me: No one at Mattel ever thanked me for originating the concept..." This needed to be the fist line in the book, hands down, bar none, and all those other clichéd phrases of emphasis.

Underneath all of the bitterness derived from that one idea, that he wasn't thanked, there is a good story here, one that would make a great article, but not a great book, which is my other major beef with Mastering the Universe. It's a fairly short read that manages both omit a lot of what should be in the book like pictures, sketches and other people's points of view (quotes, etc.) and yet be filled with a ton of redundant or off topic information. For instance Sweet makes it a point to describe the physique of almost everyone he mentions in the book, including height, weight and build. I mean does it matter if a woman working in his design group is 5'5" with a slender build? He also repeats the description every single occurrence in this book at least once but sometimes two or three times. I think he mentions the fact that in 1986 the MOTU toy line brought in 400 million dollars and then only 7 million the flowing year like four or five times and each time it's written like it was the first. The entire first chapter, which deals with Sweet mocking up three He-Man prototypes for a presentation, is almost repeated verbatim in chapter four. At the end of the day the book feels like it was padded a bit too much.

As far as Sweet's physical descriptions go, it's actually one of the more revealing things in the book. Both his co-author, David Wecker (Sweet's nephew) and Sweet himself make it a point to illustrate how important a strong and healthy physique was to Sweet growing up. He was a scrawny boy who was picked on by other boys and girls alike which prompted him to start a rigorous exercise routine that's he's kept with to this day. Every time he mentions the development of He-Man, particularly the first three prototypes he goes to great pains to mention that he felt giant muscles and a "ready for action stance" are what were lacking in the field of boy's action toys. It gets to a point where it's pretty clear that Sweet is semi-obsessed with muscles and apparently has little or no respect for weak or frail people.

Another thing that bugs me is how Sweet comes off very smug while arguing his creative rights. Twice in illustrating how successful his designs were to Mattel he quotes the exact amount of a bonus he received for his work. There are also numerous instances where he relates all the praise that was lavished on him by quoting memos or in what he remembers overhearing when others would speak of him. I can completely understand where he's coming from, in particular in an office environment where praise is often given by co-workers but never related to managers prompting that whole defensive "give credit where credit is due" mentality, but this doesn't belong in a book that is only in his voice, it just comes off very smug. He's also fond of self-congratulatory boasts and remarks. Here are two of my favorite examples: "...I came up with an unheard of innovation in model making..." and "In any case, It's my humble opinion that the Dragon Walker is the most creative powered toy vehicle ever created."

Sweet also gets a lot of facts wrong in the book which doesn't help support his cause all that much. He repeatedly states that the 3.75 inch G.I. Joe figures were already on the market (and influencing his design) when he was developing He-Man, which is off by about two years with He-Man debuting first. He also sites the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a factor in the downfall of He-Man during 1987, which is also a year or two off and not a factor in that years drop in profits. The thing that hits home the most is the factual errors in the actual MOTU line. He takes the time to describe a bunch of the figures in detail citing how creative the design was, yet gets a couple wrong. He describes Webstor as having a string going through his head and coming out his hind quarters when he simply had a back pack with a string running through it, while he describes Kobra Kahn as having a detachable head that you filled with water that would act as a squirt gun, when in fact you filled his body with water and the head only detached to allow the body to be filled. I know these are minor "fanboy" quibbles, but when he's trying to win over an audience of readers to the facts that his designs were so clever he should probably get them right. It also doesn't help that he dedicates an entire chapter to the very "crib notes" version of the development of boys figural toys over the last two hundred years, that in the end just makes him seem like he's trying to be more knowledgeable on a subject than he really is.

I also found that as a whole the entire book was very manipulative in the way it described events. In one paragraph Sweet would mention how during the first year He-Man was in production is was projected to make only 7 million dollars in profit, but ended up making 38 million and it seems that he is attributing this success to himself and his initial creative design. Then in another paragraph he mentions how he wasn't involved past the initial inception of the design, that another team took over the work on the first year run (which he repetitively says was uninspired) and that, that first year's profits (the same 38 million mind you) was pretty darn weak. This goes on all throughout the book. In one paragraph he talks about how uninspired the first wave was, then in the next he's talking about how creative it was to repaint a basic He-Man figure blue and orange, slap on Skeletor's armor, and then to call the figure a robot. That is pretty darn lame and isn't creative at all (though it is genius from a corporate "get `em to buy the same figure twice" standpoint.)

He also pretty much lambastes the Filmation cartoon, going so far as to site them for creating new characters for the show, then charging Mattel a licensing fees to make action figures of them (when they are paying licensing fees in the beginning to make the cartoon at all.) He states how he detests the concept of "Prince Adam", that it demeans the character of He-Man (though he goes to pains to make sure that everyone knows that before the cartoon came out he originated the idea of a character magically transforming from scrawny to muscled hero in a numbered internal Mattel document.) He also gives the show little credit for monumentally affecting the profits of the toys after it began airing. Well, he does mention it, though he makes sure to state that it's was his designs that made the toys so profitable, when it's clearly the show being broadcast into millions of homes on a daily basis that makes more sense.

The last nail in the coffin for me is that in the epilogue he repeatedly states that though He-Man was a "wild roller coaster ride", it's certainly not the most satisfying or memorable moment is his career or life (those honors go to working on both the Boeing 747 cabin and Downey fabric softener bottle designs), yet he put forth the effort to write this bitter memoir dedicated to making sure everyone knows who created He-Man.

I think it might be safer next time if I refrain from pulling back the curtain on a beloved childhood memory.

Mastering The Universe.......2006-06-26

As many young adults nowadays I grew up in the world He-man and The Masters of the Universe. I would follow He-man and his friends' heroic adventures through Eternia on television or by making my own adventures with the action figures. I had always known how He-man had come to be as a fictional charater but never as a non-ficional toy and this book does just that. Mastering the Universe is not just the story of how Roger Sweet came to create He-man and he rest of the Masters but how the franchise quickly rose to be one of the most popular children's toy-line in history to it's almost as quick demise in the hands of poor business dealings and office politics in Mattel. This book is not only for the He-man Fans but also to anyone involved in the business world of creativity, imagination and invention. Mastering the Universe is a fun read loaded with great stories from the creator and author himself, Roger Sweet.

The rise and fall of the 'He-Man and Masters of Universe' toy line is revealed by the creator himself.......2006-04-04

If you're an industry outsider who believes the children's toy industry must be a satisfying place to work, take a look at the office politics and conflicts revealed behind the scenes in Mastering The Universe: He-Man And The Rise And Fall Of A Billion-Dollar Idea. The rise and fall of the 'He-Man and Masters of Universe' toy line is revealed by the creator himself, Roger Sweet, who tells how the idea and concept translated to the toy market. Any involved in the toy industry or its marketing, or in inventing new products, will be fascinated by the history and drama of Mastering The Universe.

This book has very little to do with He-Man the toy, and nothing to do with the TV series.......2006-02-28

Just be fair warned - this book is not what it is sold as. It's a psudo-memoir of the rough career of a guy who worked for Mattel. He worked on He-Man, and puts forth that he "created" him, but there is so little to actually do with the He-Man franchise. The title is EXTREMELY misleading - it should be called "The Partial Rise and Sort-of Fall of a Seemingly Bitter Work-For-Hire Designer".

Much of the book is simply recollections of office politics from a couple of decades ago, and reads like the rantings of someone who is so focused on their past they are unable to look at it objectively. Imagine if you wrote a book about some trauma you experienced in Junior High - twenty-five years later, recounting the story gives you perspective on the situation because you realize how small it is in the scheme of life, and how silly some things are years later when you grow into a mature person. This author seems unable to do this, and has no perspective other than wanting desperately to convince us that someone backstabbed him in minor office politics a few decades ago. He takes it very seriously, like he's talking about world events as opposed to the sculpting of a toy, and he repeats it over, and over, and over.

The book has no concept of why He-Man is still popular nor does it offer any insight into the creation of the toys or anything else of interest besides how this guy was "wronged". There are literally only a few sentences in the entire book that have to do with the cartoon series, only enough for the author to dismiss it. For example, he calls Prince Adam a "sissy", and doesn't understand that the cartoon *IS* He-Man to most people, not the toys. He seems to be under the very false impression that the series was an afterthought to the phenomena, not the core of why people are still interested in He-Man today (regardless of which came first).

The next problem is the dual authorship. I've never read a singular narrative by two authors where it was more obvious who wrote what, down to individual lines. Sweet will go on for PAGES about how he got shafted at some staff meeting 25-years ago because someone didn't like him (reading the book, it doesn't seem as if ANYONE likes him, at least from his perspective), then all of a sudden a "But no use crying over spilled milk!" will be inserted after all the whining in a very poor attempt to make it sound like he hasn't just been going on about being a victim for several hundred words.

There is so much more bad about this book I could spend all day, but it's really not worth the time. I'm only writing this to save the time of those who, like me, were looking for a great history of He-Man only to recieve a poorly written cry-fest from some guy who seems to think that by repeating the same few sales figures a dozen times will suddenly convince us that...well, that's the problem. He doesn't have a point to convince us to, or a true story to tell; this book is simply a guy who has obsessed over a poor work experience for decades and wants us to justify his obsession.

It's just a bad book that has really NOTHING to do with He-Man. There is a tiny appendix at the end of the book where he lists a few comments about a few figures, and the most insightful thing we get is, "He featured a twisting torso", which you could tell by looking at a picture of the thing. If you want to read a book about bitterness and people who like to paint themselves like victims against the most boring of backdrops (not even the corporate stuff is interesting), then this is your book. Otherwise, skip it, and use your money to buy those great new He-Man DVDS!

Good gossip about Mattel, but no explanation for the death of He-Man.......2005-12-29

Roger Sweet is open with his readers about why he wrote "Mastering the Universe." After leaving Mattel, he found himself on the outs in the toy industry, with many others claiming that He-Man was their idea and Roger had tried to take credit.

And for the few retired toy industry players from the eighties to whom the debate about who created who matters, this book is sure to make great water cooler discussion.

The rest of us bought this book for the same reason we watch "I Love the 80s." We want a brief nostalgia kick.

I was hoping for an explanation of the toy market and the culture of the 80s that allowed for He-Man to become such a monumental success and collosal failure all in the span of three years. To this end, the book doesn't deliver. The best explanation given for He-Man's demise is something about Mattel angering retailers with a glut of Skeletors or something.

It was still a fun read, mostly because of the brief interludes where Sweet described the design of each Masters action figure. Reading about the design of Kobra Kahn and Webstor reminded me why I quit playing with He-Man as a kid. The fun of characters like Skeletor and Merman was replaced with gimmicky high-concept toys that probably did well in focus groups and design meetings, but were no fun when you were trying to create a world of characters to play with.

Sew Any Set-In Pocket
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Beautifully illustrated designs and instructions..........2005-04-23

for creating the patterns for them, but scant sewing instructions for tricky seams such as occur in stand-out pockets.

Pocket Perfection!.......2003-10-23

Perfection is in the details, and this book is simply perfection. Excellent illustrations and step-by-step instructions make it incredibly easy to get professional results. Includes detailed instructions for many variations of inseam, edge, slash, porthole, set-in, single welt, and double welt pockets.

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One of the pioneering works of modern sociology, Family and Kinship in East London is a study of family life in the East End of London in the 1950s, based on extensive interviews and case studies, which examines the consequences of moving families from urban to suburban public housing. The book was first published in 1954, updated in 1989, and is here presented with a new foreword by Judith Stacey.

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A Great Book About A Great Bluesman!.......2002-06-03

Earl Hooker was one of the most influential guitarists that ever lived; not just in the blues, but in many different musical styles. His mastery of slide guitar and the wah-wah pedal (many times combining BOTH, thus creating a truly hair-raising sound) are legendary. But sadly, Earl Hooker is all but obscure now, owing to his early death (he died in 1970 at age 39 from tuberculosis), his uneven recording career (he only made 3 "true" albums; he recorded many obscure 45 rpm sides and guest appearances), and even his famous name association (he is half-cousin to the late boogie king John Lee Hooker) didn't seem to help him achieve real stardom; one he so greatly deserved!

As all of the previous reviewers have pointed out, this is an extensively researched book, chock-full of interviews with many of the legends Hooker played with in his seemingly short career (Pinetop Perkins, Big Moose Walker, A.C. Reed, B.B. King), each one giving detailed accounts of Hooker's somewhat eccentric behavior, his lifelong battle with TB, but most of all and importantly, his undeniable guitar prowess. Unfortunately, by the time Hooker began to get noticed for his amazing natural talent and hard work, TB overtook him, causing his untimely death.

This is an excellent book, both for true Earl Hooker fans, and new ones alike. He had so much more to give the world of music, and had he lived, he most certainly would've attained the same success and legendary status as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy and Albert King, just to name a few. Essential reading!

Honoring a great bluesman...........2002-01-07

Since the 60s, Earl Hooker has been a mythical figure for me. Over the years I've heard his brilliant slide guitar solos here and there, mostly as an accompanist and eventually on his Blue Thumb vinyl release in 1970. And of course I had read all the superlatives that his musical cohorts liberally expressed in the blues press. But reading Danchin's exhaustively researched tribute has given a whole new life to those recordings. The detailed stories and thorough personnel listings associated with each of Hooker's scant few recording sessions add immeasurably to the enjoyment of my Hooker collection. Danchin does a remarkable job recreating a life using only second-hand info gleaned in the main from dozens of interviews with all those bluesmen and friends who inhabited Hooker's hectic world. My hope is that Danchin will apply his skills to telling the story of another deserving (and still LIVING) blues legend: Little Milton Campbell!

If you like Earl Hooker, or Chicago Blues, you'll like this!.......2001-09-14

The amazing part about this book is that the author was able to find out so much about Earl Hooker. The guy is a legendary guitar player. If you read interviews with his contemporaries like Buddy Guy or Otis Rush, they will attest to Hooker's greatness. Unfortunately Hooker died thirty years ago and is pretty obscure today. He didn't sing, so he survives on records largely as an accompanist to other people and on albums he recorded under his own name for a wide variety of mostly small and forgotten record labels. Many of his recordings are hard to find today. Surprisingly this author was able to find out about Earl Hooker's life and his world in great detail and in so doing rescue Earl Hooker from disappearing into history. In addition to being amazingly well researched this book is written by a fan of blues music. If you read this book you'll probably want to hear more of Earl Hooker, and that's probably the best compliment I could bestow on the author!

earl hooker---blues master.......2001-05-29

to come to the point--this is one of the best books ever written about a blues artist---it gives a great insight into what the life of this incredible guitarist was really like in the 1950's and 1960's...i laughed a whole lot---this book is very entertaining--earl was just about the greatest guitarist of his time and this book serves to remind those who love him of his greatness and to educate those who have no idea who he was-- if you never even heard of earl hooker, this is still a highly entertaining book about a very entertaining fellow-- the author did a great job of putting together dozens of interviews (done over a period of over 20 years)into a very nice book--its a big book too---lots of pages---some cool photos too- i plan on reading it many more times---two big thumbs up!!-

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Not your usual World War II memoir..........2005-08-31

This has to be one of the most original memoirs of WWII that I've come across. Lynton's prose is striking, balancing sarcasm and acidity effortlessly with the horrible events that he witnessed and participated in, and some of the most comical moments of a lifetime. It's a wild and wooly ride, and this is another one I could not put down. Highly recommended!

Accidental Review of Accidental Jouney.......2005-05-15

I found this book by accident at a book sale. It turned out to be an extraordinary memoire of WW II as experienced by a university student at Cambridge University who happened to be a German Jew by birth. He was thus, by dint of extraordinary stupidity on the part of the British War Office, rounded up as an enemy alien and after many moves within Great Britain, ultimately shipped off to Canada, along with other young male civilians from Axis countries (Hungary, Austria, e.g.) who happened to be studying or living in England, lumped together with German prisoners of war.

What is so special about this account is its breadth -from the misguided enemy alien roundup, the eventual release and subsequent involvement in the British war effort as a tank officer, to his account of the final days of war in Germany and his subsequent post-war involvement as an Intelligence office. The author presents extraordinarly insightful accounts of the war experience and the workings of the military on both sides of the conflict He has provided us with a unique first-hand view of the Second World War in the European theater, from its start to its finish. I do not believe there is another account like it. I plan to send a copy to my brother-in-law who, as a 15-year-old Viennese refugee in England suffered the same fate of internment , and to my friends who fought in the war with the Dutch and British. While telling a story of historical importance, the author has also managed to outdo Evelyn Waugh in satire and irony, and to equal him in grace.

I rated this as 4-1/2 stars, the half point taken off for occasional passages of tedium in the middle of the book which, in the end, do not significantly detract from an overall rating of splendid.

Nora Avins Klein, M. D.

Amazing story and a fun read!.......2001-01-19

I really enjoyed this book. The author has a great gift in recognizing irony when he see's it, and a very sharp wit. It was very different than the many other WWII biographies I have read. The situations and circumstances Lynton found himself in during those years are almost unbelievable.
At times his casual, dry approach towards what would seem like a tramatic or dramatic event is puzzling, although he does state on a couple occasions that many of those circumstance have been covered in so many other books that he didn't feel the need to go into depth with them.
His description about what it was like to be an "alien" (German Jew) in Great Britain was interesting, and very ironic that he couldn't become a British citizen, but was good enough to serve in their military.
The chapters about his time in the secret service was fascinating, with a lot of insight on what everyday life was like for civilians and servicemen in post-war Europe.
The book is filled with amazing twists and turns, and even humor in the way he sarcastically explains a situation.
Even though the ending was a little weak (reason for 4 not 5 stars) I would still highly recommend this book and had a hard time putting it down.

I enjoyed this book so much.......1999-05-06

that when I closed the final page, I fantasized about writing to Mark Lynton and telling him so! Insightful, humorous and thought provoking about WWII and life in general. Mr. Lynton is the kind of person I would like to sit next to at a dinner party!

A British raconteur's delightfully wry look at World War II........1997-01-31

Couldn't put it down. The author is a marvelous storyteller, and writes in a wonderfully humorous and detached manner about his part in the War in Europe. As a native German speaker, he found himself initially interned and shipped to Canada for security purposes, and later involved in many improbable situations throughout his service with the British tank corps. It reads as if the author is sitting in the living room relating his tales. Incomparable

Accidental Journey, A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II

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Mark Lynton
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Accidental Journey, a Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II, from German Jewish Student in 1939 to Internee to Soldier to Intelligence Corp Interrogating Field Marshall Gerd Von Rundstedt & Others

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