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...ratings, and someone like the editor in charge of the television listings decided to offer absolutely honest appraisals. The daytime talk shows would be rated PE for Pathetic Exploitation; the shopping channel would carry a UA for Untrammeled Acquisitiveness; and most sitcoms would be rated MT for Mindless Trash...
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...
...buying experience easier to stomach. These are not new ideas, but Huizenga plans to carry them out on a scale that would literally transform every aspect of car retailing. This is a glimpse of Wayne's Auto World, where the same formula that has revolutionized video and trash will be put to work on wheels...
...starts, naturally, with mint cars from the factory floor. And that is the piece to this giant puzzle that Huizenga and his brain trust at Republic are working on feverishly today. Huizenga, who built his trash and video empires via rapid acquisitions, will spend about $250 million next year to build used-car megalots from the ground up. But to complement that investment, he's about to embark on a takeover spree of new-car dealerships...
...that his Jerry is the whole show. Gooding's Tidwell can talk truth as well as trash. Funny and flamboyant as he is, he's a ferocious exponent of family values, stated with a lack of cant. He has a lot to teach Jerry about loyalty and its rewards...