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Belly up to the Barbie.

Some of Hollywood's biggest stars turned out to honor a hunk of molded petroleum

as Barbie turned 40, making her too old to play the girlfriend and too young to play the mother.

Here's Brandy, singing the Barbie marching song Be Anything with a chorus of future divorce A's.

She looks just like Moisha.

So in your heart and dream or dream be anything you want to be anything.

And here's Brandy talking.

Barbie means so much to young little girls, and she's so positive.

She's very classy, and I'm just happy to be here, you know, because that's the way, you know, I am.

Yes, that's exactly right, Brandy, because class is all about telling people you're classy.

Tell me more about this fabulous woman. You are the best. Happy anniversary.

That was Barbie's role model, Dick Clark,

who's also made entirely out of age-retardant space-age polymers.

Oh, is that a microphone?

I always love Barbies. We never really had enough money to have a lot of Barbies,

but we had a few.

And though Rosie had only a few Barbies,

every morning they were forced to sit on the couch

and laugh at her jokes for a whole hour.

According to Mattel,

somewhere in the world, a Barbie doll is sold every two seconds.

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