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...exposure has been limited. But Felix Quinn, who opened Britain's first Kinkade gallery nearly two years ago, believes they are entirely justified. With nearly $1 million in turnover during his initial year in business, he more than doubled his financial target. A former door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, Quinn discovered Kinkade's art during a 1998 visit to San Diego. He purchased a few pieces for his own collection and was soon hooked. "Once you have a piece and you make that commitment, you want another one," he explains. "Art is based on that." Quinn does not sell...
...Rock’s character is much like his rock & roll personality—badass white trash—and consequently he does a notably good job in the film. A high school janitor in the witness protection relocation program, played by Christopher Walken, and a Native American fireworks salesman also help Dirt during his quest...
...heard rumors of Africa or a South American rain forest. Was he worried about existing in a tropical jungle? "Nah. I survive L.A. And that's a real jungle." I wondered if he was your standard unemployed actor, but discovered that he just looked like one. He was a salesman for a trucking company. Apparently life is equally tough for those in L.A. who are not actors...
...plaid shirt by a niche fashion house called Hysteric Glamour, baggy pants, a chain of oversize dice hanging from his waist and silver rings on his fingers. Being a deejay would be kind of cool, he says, but he likes graphic design too. And then he met this salesman who tried to import beetles from Indonesia, and that sounded promising?except all the beetles died while waiting to clear customs. "Maybe I could do that," he says...
Curled up on her living-room sofa, Rose Wendland speaks about her husband Robert in loving, admiring words--"very handsome, always well groomed." She describes the Stockton, Calif., auto-parts salesman as a self- taught mechanical whiz with an insatiable appetite for books. He was a devoted father, she says, who enjoyed nothing more than taking their three kids boating on the nearby Stockton delta...