Michael Bloom, senior vice president of merchandising at CVS, said Playskool had the name recognition and credibility "to cross over from toys to personal care."

The director, Michael Bloom, has, however, carefully chosen his cast and, except for some lapses in accents, he has brought his actors together into a closely knit family.

Or, as Michael Bloom, associate artistic director of the Hartman Theater Company in Stamford, put it, it could be "just a happy coincidence."

As of 2005, the artistic director is Michael Bloom, the eighth artistic director since its inception.

"We're going to give classical as much love as we give hip-hop or pop," said Michael Bloom, MTV Networks' vice president for digital music.

Michael Bloom, who directed, has done his darndest to put some kick into this watered-down version of "The Front Page" (even though it was written a year earlier).

Michael Bloom, the director, underplays the melodramatic aspects of the story.

In 1985 Michael Bloom of The Boston Phoenix wrote that Cheap at Half the Price "will never get the hearing it deserves".

He is Michael Bloom, not Byam Stevens.

Michael Davies and Eamonn Maguire, executive producers; Michael Bloom, co-executive producer.