Minding The Store

September, 1996

Tom Hull is a large guy from Oregon. He dwarfs the podium, where he has just received the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award. He seems shy and appears to have difficulty explaining to the audience how he ended up at the event.He owns a video store. "You see them on every corner. One of them's mine. Well, now two of them. It's a family business. My sister is back home minding the store."Hull explains what to him was an inescapable mission. Powerful people had decided that Oregonians h...