Posted on 11/21/2004 3:01:42 AM PST by crushelits
For a publicity-shy billionaire, Philip F. Anschutz knows how to make his mark.
In 1998, when the Denver businessman couldn't resolve a dispute with a hog farm next door to his ranch,
he funded an initiative to change state law, setting the toughest hog-farming restrictions in the country,
and pushed his neighbor out of business.
In 2000, after waiting for Hollywood to make more family-friendly and inspirational movies, he started producing films such as "Holes," last year's sleeper hit about a boy sent to a detention camp to dig holes, and "Ray," the Ray Charles biopic.
With a penchant for acting on a grand scale, Anschutz, 64, has a way of instantly becoming a major player in any scene and any city he enters.
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He prefers cowboy boots and jeans to suits, keeps his distance from MSM, is a strong Pro-Lifer, jogs with is wife in the same Denver neighborhood where he's lived for 30 years without any bodygaurds...hmmm, I wish there were more billionaires like this!
Holes was a terrific modern myth packaged as an adolescents tale, I'm glad he saw the virtue in it's theatrical production value.
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