41.   Huizenga is the owner of the Miami Dolphins football team and former owner of the Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. video rental chain.

42.   If business executives had not been so diligent, heaven knows how many other video rental crises we might have experienced.

43.   In the video rental industry, making a movie is expensive, but copying a tape is cheap.

44.   Instead, the backers of DVD regrouped, got the studios on board and put DVDs into video rental stores.

45.   Indeed, video rental income now rivals box-office receipts.

46.   Interestingly, they spend larger amounts per capita on movies, video rentals and premium cable channels.

47.   It comes from Quentin Tarantino, who is of the first generation of filmmakers to come to the art from clerking in video rental stores.

48.   It has a video rental department, a UPS outlet and offers ice cream I could drip if I ever paused long enough to read the bulletin board.

49.   It may take another year for new Blockbuster chief executive John Antioco to patch up the chain, which is beset by declining video rentals and high costs.

50.   It would extend current privacy protections on video rental records, for example, to book and music purchases, as well as cable and satellite TV subscriptions.