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Nation & World WORLD BRIEFS ■ 0. J. Simpson calls 911 for help with woman on cocaine Miami (AP)—0. J. Simpson called 911, saying he was trying to get help for a woman he said had been on a two-day co caine binge with a former baseball play er. Simpson, 52, placed the call Sunday night from the townhouse of his 26-year old girlfriend, Christie Prody, in south west Miami-Dade County. A Miami-Dade police report said Simpson told officers who showed up at the house that he was trying to get help for Prody. But Simpson and Prody later told WSVN-TV the 911 call was to get help for someone else. “We have a problem here,” Simpson was heard telling the 911 operator, ac cording to WSVN’s broadcast of the call Monday. “I’m trying to get a girl to go to rehab.... She’s been doing drugs for two days with Pedro Guerrero, who just got arrested for cocaine, and I’m try ing to get her to leave her house and go into rehab right now.” _ Ml_x I I — II_-1 ■ ridiiei nunywuuu closes nine locations Orlando (AP)—Planet Hollywood has closed nine of its 32 U.S. movie themed restaurants ahead of a planned Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The Orlando-based company plans to ' file bankruptcy petitions today in Delaware, and will soon submit its re organization plan, the company said in a news release Monday evening. “Today is the first step in our plan to position Planet Hollywood for a return to long-term profitability and healthy growth,” said Robert Earl, chairman and chief executive officer. The restaurants closed Monday were in Chicago, Costa Mesa, Calif.; Fort Laud erdale, Fla.; Gurnee, 111.; Houston; In dianapolis; Maui, Hawaii; Miami and Phoenix. There might still be a couple of ad ditional closings or franchise conversions, the company said. I I Retailers predict must-have toys for holidays by Rachel Beck Associated Press New York — Parents looking for the hot toys this holiday season have a new resource: a list of must-haves compiled by the nation’s biggest retailers. But shoppers be warned, this list was n’t done as a public service. While re tailers make it their business to predict the public’s desires, their choices also re flect what they have in their invento ries and want to push off store shelves. “The toy business is all about spin, and this is the retailers’ spin on what will sell,” said Eric Johnson, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. “But I have to say that out of all the people out there picking hot toys, I’d say the retailers have a pretty good chance of knowing best what will be hot,” Jolrn son said. Topping the retailers’ list is Pokemon and anything tied to the Japanese cartoon character, such as video games, plush dolls and trading cards. While the other toys aren’t ranked by number, those also expected to be pop ular include WWF and WCW wrestling (lolls. Rock & Roll Elmo, Furby, Millen nium Barbie, QX-3 — an electronic mi croscope, computer-linked Legos, and toys based on the movies “Toy Story 2” and “Star Mrs Episode I: The Phan tom Menace.” Toy manufacturers are usually blamed for stirring up a buying frenzy, dumping millions of dollars into marketing and ad vertising. In recent years, the hype over Fufby and Tickle Me Elmo was careful ly orchestrated by their makers. There are also many would-be toy ex perts and toy “tests” run by magazines and local media that add to the must-have mentality. Many magazines accept mon ey from manufacturers to promote cer tain products, but nevqj reveal that when releasing their hot toy lists. “Right now, traditional television ad vertising isn’t working like it used to, so manufacturers are using different meth ods to get their product out there into the public eyb,” said Chris Byme, a toy con sultant and contributing editor o.f Toy Wishes: The Ultimate Toy Buying Guide, a new magazine that tracks hot toys. “But everyone has the same goal: To sell some thing.” The retailers’ survey might have more credibility than others. While the mer chants have an obvious agenda — to en courage people to spend — the findings are based on the opinions of more than a dozen retailers, including giant Toys R Us, online leader eToys and the special ty chain Noodle Kidoodle. The retailers weren’t charged a fee to participate in the survey. Manufac turers were prohibited from entering prod ucts and had no say in the survey. 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