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Laura Groppe is 35, but she'll freely use the word"terminal" to describe her ever-present teenagementality. So it's pretty lucky for her--and for girlseverywhere--that she's the conceptual force behindentertainment company Girl Games Inc. in Austin, Texas, a workplacewhere blow-up furniture is standard and achieving "absolutechaos" is encouraged.
But this freedom didn't always reign: Before starting GirlGames in 1994, the former film and video producer/director(who's won Academy, MTV and Sundance Film Festival awards) grewweary of Hollywood and of following directions when shecouldn't be boss. You didn't read it here, but she even gotcanned a couple of times.
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