Word: crenshaw
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Like any other star athlete, Johnson has done a ton of endorsements; now his own money is on the line. He and Sony are partners in the $8 million-plus theater investment, including the Magic Theatre at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South Central Los Angeles, a top-grossing movie house. "Everybody in Hollywood said it wouldn't work," Johnson says of the L.A. deal. "They laughed at us, and they laughed at Sony. Now they want to know how they can help." The theater's success has given an assist to other businesses there. Like Greenbriar, the mall...
...building more jails and supports public education. Lisa Kitterman is the only new Republican in the race. She advocates abolishing payroll taxes and instead funding Social Security through a consumption tax. Other candidates, none expected to do much more than take votes away from the frontrunners, include Democrat Marvin Crenshaw and Independents Ada Granado, Steven Hammond and Lisa Hembry...
...MARVIN CRENSHAW (D) 5134 Oakland Avenue, Dallas...
...full life these past four years. His wife Cookie gave birth to Earvin Johnson III in 1992, and last year the Johnsons adopted a baby girl. He threw himself into business projects, one of which is the Magic Johnson Movie Theaters in Los Angeles' predominantly black community of Crenshaw; the movie complex is one of the top five in the U.S. in gross revenues and has sparked a business revival in its tough South Central neighborhood. He tried coaching the Lakers during the second half of the '94 season, but quit after finding it was harder to communicate with...
...MASTER Ben Crenshaw hadn't won a major tournament since the '84 Masters, his putting stroke had left him, and he teed off at Augusta the day after bearing mentor Harvey Penick's casket. But with Penick as spiritual caddy, the reverential Crenshaw won golf's most revered tourney...