Thomas Schueck

■ DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: March 22, 1941, St. Louis

■ MY ORIGINS: Schueck is German-Dutch. But I don’t know where I’m from. I’ve gone to that [Ancestry] website and, hell, I can’t get past my mother and father.

■ BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: You’re looking at it: This [his company, Lexicon Inc.], and my family. And my age. I don’t know how I ever lived to be 77.

■ GUESTS AT MY FANTASY DINNER PARTY: Michelle Pfeiffer, Vladimir Putin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Paul Briscoe — a personal friend; he died a few years back.

■ MOST RECENT READS: The Arsenal of Democracy by A.J. Baine, The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose, Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly, The Hunter Killers by Dan Hampton, Odyssey of Echo Company by Doug Stanton, Merchants in the Temple by Gianluigi Nuzzi.

■ FAVORITE TV SHOW: Downton Abbey

■ FAVORITE MOVIE: I never know what I’m watching or where I’m watching. I watch movies I think are great and I don’t even know the names of them. Last night I was flipping channels and I watched one about P.T. Barnum (The Greatest Showman); it was a musical — I didn’t even know it was a musical. ■ BEST THING ABOUT BUILDING A COMPANY IN ARKANSAS: We’ve gotten to meet some of the most interesting people, because it’s a small state. And you get to a certain level in business and rub shoulders with people like the Tysons, the Hunts, the Murphys, the Dillards. You don’t get to do that if you live in a big city like St. Louis or Dallas. And in the sports world — Jerry Jones was my next-door neighbor for many years. Then he bought the Cowboys and moved.

■ ONE WORD TO SUM ME UP: Intimidating. I don’t know why [people] think I’m intimidating, but that’s what they tell me. Sometimes maybe it’s just your position.