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...poised to head the largest casino company in the world, he is having little trouble captivating the entire gaming world...
Loveman, the CEO of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., announced last Thursday a $9.44 billion deal to purchase rival casino behemoth Caesar’s Entertainment, Inc. If approved by the companies’ shareholders, the deal would be the largest in casino history, creating a giant enterprise with 56 casinos, about 3.7 million square feet in gaming space and over 40,000 hotel rooms...
...event earned the avid gambler a seat in the World Poker Tour Championship, to be held next April in Las Vegas. Affleck outlasted a former world champ and fellow action hero Tobey Maguire at the tourney in Commerce, Calif., to "become a respected member of the poker elite," a casino rep said. Now if only the star of such clinkers as Paycheck and Gigli made smarter bets on his films...
...mold of Aaron Spelling's Fantasy Island and, yes, the Robert Urich Vega$ (though, for his part, Spelling says some of the new, decency-cautious series "make Vegas seem like a church"). But the new programs also show how some of our mores have changed. Consider the casino-based series, which place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke and con men and cardsharps like Bret Maverick. Today--The Cooler...
...little lessons when they overindulged--these shows offer both titillation and retribution. On CSI we get the former stripper who puts murderers in jail; on Dr. Vegas, the hot singer whose drug problem nearly kills her; on Single in Vegas, the party girls longing to settle down; on The Casino, the skirt-chasing high roller who picks up a woman--who turns...