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“Child’s Play” producer David Kirschner on the film’s portrayal of the potential manipulation of children by advertisers: “Now that the Reagan Administration has vetoed the idea of controlling the amount of ads kids see, the fact that a kid could blindly want even a doll possessed by a killer doesn’t seem so far out to me. . . . And here I was thinking I’d made a fantasy.”

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