Charles Dean Pruitt produced and financed the Russian Dinosaur Exposition
at
City Museum of St. Louis from October 1997 to May 1998.
Charles Dean Pruitt produced
and financed the Russian Dinosaur Exposition
at Hallmark Cards' Crown Center in
Kansas City in conjunction with Jurassic Journeys
from January 1999 to May 1999.
Charles
Dean Pruitt produced and financed the Russian Dinosaur Exposition
at Louisiana
State Fairgrounds in Shreveport in conjunction with Nimbus Corporation
from June
1999 to December 1999.
Nimbus Corporation arranged a venue for a Millenium Exposition
at the Puerto Rico
National Museum in San Juan beginning in January 2000.
The
government of Puerto Rico pre-purchased approximately a half million tickets
for
the schoolchildren of Puerto Rico.
At this point with conceivably a million dollars
in accounts receivable to erase his inestimable
losses from the three previous
shows, Mr. Pruitt was advised through an intermediary of
Russian organized crime
that he was no longer representing the Russian Dinosaur Exposition
even though
he had a signed contract. Should he come to Moscow he would never leave again
and
should he persist there was a special surprise in store for his partner in Moscow-
a ride in a car trunk.
As with anything good and successful in Russia- it soon
becomes dangerous and dirty.
This is what became of the Russian Dinosaur Exposition!
