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Until last week that looked to be the case for Prodigy, the country's pioneer consumer online service. Frozen by a billion-dollar debt, the company watched helplessly as America Online and CompuServe blew past in an online explosion. By the time CEO Edward Bennett arrived last spring, he was left with a simple choice: reinvent the company or fold...
...chose to reinvent. At week's end Bennett was putting the finishing touches on a leveraged buyout that would take control of Prodigy from IBM and Sears and retool it into a net-based multimedia studio. If all goes according to plan, Bennett and his team will be running a giant-content company producing sports, entertainment and news-based Websites...
Tiger Stadium, which began life as Bennett Park in 1896, will be the first of the three to go. Twice in the past few years loyalists have surrounded the ball park and given it a hug to demonstrate their affection, but they are down to their last, futile lawsuit, and ground will soon be broken for a Camden Yards knockoff in a better neighborhood...
Among Vegas' poker-faced master builders--Steve Wynn of the Mirage and Treasure Island, Bill Bennett of Circus Circus--Stupak is something of a wild card, a joke or a curse, a relic of the days when the town was run by guys whose middle name was "the." He enjoys banter about guns, was almost cast in Martin Scorsese's gangster epic Casino, and still refers to Mob characters like "Lefty" Rosenthal and Tony (the Ant) Spilotro as "the boys...
While Wynn and Bennett were Disneyfying the Strip with automated pirate shows and indoor theme parks, he catered to blue-collar gamblers at Bob Stupak's Vegas World, using vacation packages to fill the tacky rooms and move the garbage buffet. (In 1991 he was fined $125,000 for misleading advertising.) But now Stupak is playing with the big boys. He wants to stay at the table and to be seen betting all his chips. "I know one thing," he says. "It's better for people to know you than not to know you. To be in Las Vegas...