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MIAMI: The FBI is trying to determine if Andrew Cunanan had any help in evading authorities after he allegedly slayed fashion designer Gianni Versace. At the top of the FBI's suspected accomplice list: Torsten Reineck, the proprietor of a gay bath house in Las Vegas and owner of the houseboat where Cunanan was found dead with a self inflicted bullet wound to the head. TIME Miami bureau chief TammerlinDrummond reports the FBI is currently questioning him to determine if he knew the suspected serial killer. "There are very real questions as to whether Reineck gave Cunanan the keys...
Debbie Reynolds has the mother of all money problems. Both she and her namesake Las Vegas hotel have filed for bankruptcy protection. "I never dreamed I would, at this time of my life, be subjected to this painful situation," said Reynolds, 65, whose son Todd Fisher is president of the hotel firm. The hostelry has endured a series of setbacks, among them the removal of its slot machines and a sale that fell through at the 11th hour. Trouper that she is, Reynolds will still perform there...
...fact, Hollywood has been Bacharach's biggest promoter. The songwriter serves as a veritable totem of retro-cool in Mike Meyer's Austin Powers, in which Bacharach does a cameo singing behind a candelabraed piano that sits atop a Las Vegas tourist bus. His music is featured even more prominently--even if he isn't--in the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, providing for a younger generation the same kind of romantic charge, simultaneously nostalgic and bracingly fresh, that George Gershwin gave when he was rediscovered by the disco generation two decades ago in Woody Allen...
LICENSE REVOKED. Of MIKE TYSON, 31, disgraced boxer; by the Nevada Athletic Commission, for biting Evander Holyfield's ears; in Las Vegas. Tyson was also fined $3 million. He will be able to reapply for his license next year...
...theory that New York City has given a grant to some down-on-its-luck former mill town to take in squeegee guys rather than become the site of a nuclear-waste dump. Or the theory that the squeegee guys are secretly rehearsing for cameo appearances at that Las Vegas hotel that features a mock-up of Manhattan...