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BARBIE NATION: AN UNAUTHORIZED TOUR

By | May 1998

If you have any love, hate, or mixed feelings for the little pink clad career woman, you’ll dig this even-handed documentary…

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BARBIE NATION: AN UNAUTHORIZED TOUR

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