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Douglas is scheduled to accept his award, known as the "Pudding Pot," before the opening of the Pudding's annual musical, a Las Vegas send-up called "Up Your Ante...
Last week "books with batteries" were one bright spot in an otherwise recession-battered Winter Consumer Electronics Show -- Las Vegas' annual display of the latest beeping, blinking, thinking gadgetry. According to Personal Technology Research, a Waltham, Mass., firm, Americans spent $163 million buying 2.1 million electronic reference works last year, a total that is expected to grow 10% in 1992. Among the notable entries in this year's crop of pocket-size-book equivalents...
...rivals of Tark the Shark's dominant, scandal-plagued basketball teams at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, UNLV stands for UNLoVed. So not many cried when his 1991 squad, 30-0 in the regular season, lost an NCAA semifinal game to the scholars of Duke. The coach's defenders aver that his rehab program for inner-city tall guys is affirmative action at its most productive. Others, spotting the athletes' BMWs in the gym parking lot, see another moral: it's not whether you win or lose, but how much you make on the side...
American Dreaming by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who, besides inventing himself as a Hollywood celebrity, invented Las Vegas as the playground for our more primitive fantasies. Warren Beatty and Annette Bening are terrific in director Barry Levinson's smart-ironic, romantic-perverse, funny-poignant take on modern life in a fast, deadly lane...
American Dreaming by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who, besides inventing himself as a Hollywood celebrity, invented Las Vegas as the playground for our more primitive fantasies. Warren Beatty and Annette Bening are terrific in director Barry Levinson's smart-ironic, romantic-perverse, funny-poignant take on modern life in a fast, deadly lane...