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Moolah: British slang term for money originating in London and appearing in America sometime in the early 1930s.

My First Million and Me

Ah, what you could do with a million dollars.

Here comes a new house, new car, new body and certainly a new outlook on life. Or maybe not. Perhaps you would prefer to rediscover old hobbies and passions swept to the sidelines, sacrificed for more pressing daily demands.

For small business owner Tom Butts, a million dollars would mean he could retreat to his basement, and that is exactly what he plans to do.

"I hope to retire completely by the time I'm 50," says Butts, 38. "Basically I want to turn the downstairs of my house, the basement, into a theater room on one end and an edit room on the other. It will be like a mini-George Lucas setup."

Butts, a father of three, describes his family as his biggest priority in life. Fortunately, his wife and kids love movies and his kids have grown up thinking their dad was Sylvester Stallone

Though Butts may spend his current free time going over shots of future films in his mind, he is no couch potato. The proud owner of a 1970 LT1 Corvette, Butts is equally thrilled being behind the wheel of a sports car as he is wielding a movie camera.

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