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Rob Thomas shared his thoughts on Barbie’s Ryan Gosling covering Matchbox Twenty’s “Push,” a favorite song of director Greta Gerwig.

Ann Ryan, daughter of Mattel VP Jack Ryan, says her late father — not Ruth Handler — created Barbie. Ryan was once married to Zsa Zsa Gabor and also designed missiles for Raytheon.

Greta Gerwig tackles philosophical questions that are more daunting than a film based on a children’s toy can handle. It results in a strange, uneven, but beautiful movie. 

The View host Whoopi Goldberg slammed Barbie's critics who said the movie wasn't family friendly: "It's a movie about a doll. I thought y'all would be happy."

'Barbie' reportedly had a $150 million marketing budget, and it exceeded that figure in its opening weekend. Here's how their marketing team pulled it off.…

For her 50th birthday, a Maine woman received a nostalgic gift as her mother presented her with rare 1976 Barbie dolls, bringing back cherished memories.

Like most little girls of her era, Dru Troescher-Battle had a Barbie doll. But Troescher-Battle, of Metairie, was never one of those obsessed Barbie kids. “I couldn’t decide between dolls

The "Barbie" movie has woke moments, but it should also delight conservatives by challenging modern feminism's narratives.

Greta Gerwig has made a movie as layered and paradoxical as the reputation of Barbie itself.