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...risottos on a red-sauce culture are perhaps the year's most unlikely success. Primo, the chef (Tony Shalhoub), has the soul of an artist--watchful, uncompromising, mildly depressive. Secondo, the maitre d' (Stanley Tucci, who, with Campbell Scott, wrote and directed), is trying vainly to be an American entrepreneur. Stumbling toward bankruptcy, they also sail toward wisdom in this beautifully acted and utterly delicious comedy of--shall we say?--table manners...
...York City, Chicago and Denver. Forty more branches are set to open mainly through franchises in eight new markets. Says he: "I see it as the Starbucks of the year 2000. We could put one every two to three blocks." Now you know why he's an entrepreneur...
Meet H. Wayne Huizenga, billionaire entrepreneur extraordinaire. No introduction is needed, really. Huizenga hauled away your trash twice a week in the 1970s, treated you to a cheap date with video rentals in the 1980s and sated your craving for first downs, slap shots and strikeouts as a sports tycoon in the 1990s. It isn't possible to be a conscious adult and not have contributed to the Huizenga stash in some small way. Now the man who built what has become waste-giant WMX Technologies, video-king Blockbuster Entertainment and perhaps the biggest collection of sports properties anywhere (Miami...
BORN: Oct. 17, 1936, Cincinnati EDUCATION: Ohio Wesleyan U, B.A., 1958; Ohio State U, J.D., 1963 FAMILY: Wife, Carolyn; three children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Air National Guard, 1958-63 OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur POLITICAL CAREER: Ohio Senate, 1982-90; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: 82 West Columbia, Springfield, Ohio...
Nine years without a tax increase. A balanced budget every year. A 60% increase in the police force. It's a record any G.O.P. mayor might be proud of, but it belongs to Clarksville's "middle-of-the-road" Democrat, Don Trotter. And though Entrepreneur magazine rated Clarksville one of America's two best cities for small business, Trotter has a fight trying to unseat popular G.O.P. incumbent Ed Bryant...