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...company's TV commercials, L.A. Gear's shoes suggest sex and Southern California. One of the brand's top sellers is Street Brats ($60), with contrasting-color laces, marbleized leather and tongues that stick straight up. L.A. Gear was started in 1979 by Robert Greenberg, 49, a hairdresser turned entrepreneur who keeps his finger on the pulse of California shopping culture. Says he: "I'm a mallaholic. I need to go to a mall at least twice a week, or I get the shakes." Sales at L.A. Gear accelerated from $11 million in 1985 to $224 million...
Above all, people need to be watered in August, and any entrepreneur with a splashy way to make waves should have no trouble staying afloat. Who, for example, could resist the Dive-In Movies at Raging Waters park in San Dimas, Calif.? There, up to 500 moviegoers can drift through feature films while floating in inner tubes around an 81-ft. by 193-ft. pool. High-powered fans underwater create gently rolling waves, which may not suffice to soothe the bathers as they watch, typically, Jaws, Creature from the Black Lagoon (this in 3-D) or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under...
...President of Poland, but Bush reportedly reminded him that if successful ; reform was to occur, somebody should be ready to lead. Walesa poured out his hopes for luring $10 billion in investments to Poland, a vague scheme of venture capital that caught the fancy of the former Texas oil entrepreneur...
...Sanchez, Davi gets to play one of the best Bond villains in years. He also gets to deliver a few deadpan one-liners, which are occasionally amusing. Basically, Sanchez is just an entrepreneur with a sadistic streak. ("I want you to know, this is nothing personal. It's purely business," he tells Felix as he is lowered to the waiting shark...
What leads a writer to choose his specialty? For Andrew Tobias, it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at Harvard in the late 1960s. Joining in several college-run ventures, he rented refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped write the popular Let's Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says Tobias: "I learned a lot in a short time, but I decided that I have more fun writing about business than trying...