For Release: April 28, 2004

Documentary Lemonade Stories to Air on CNNfn

Nation’s Leading Entrepreneurs Pay Tribute Their Mothers

CNNfn will present a special airing of the documentary, Lemonade Stories, on Friday, May 7, at 9 p.m. (ET). The documentary, by award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio, profiles some of the nation’s leading entrepreneurs by paying tribute to their mothers. The entrepreneurs profiled include Richard Branson (Virgin), Arthur Blank (Home Depot and the Atlanta Falcons) and Russell Simmons (Def Jam).

In the documentary, the entrepreneurs share the secrets of their success and talk about their mothers, whom they credit with  igniting their entrepreneurial spirit. Branson’s sense of risk-taking, for example, emerged from the life and example of his mother, Eve, a pilot and WWII veteran.   Blank’s vision of Home Depot was inspired by the example of his mother, a widow with no business experience who took over and ran a family business with enormous success.

For more information on the film or Babson College, log on to www.lemonadestories.com.

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