Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mayer was building a roster of household names that almost lived up to MGM's slogan, "More stars than there are in heaven": Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Lana Turner, the Marx Brothers, Ava Gardner and, of course, Garbo, L.B.'s personal discovery...
...stocks such as Mirage's have lost one-third to one-half of their value in the past year. The weakening global economy is also taking its toll. The high rollers from Asia, the focus of a lot of attention, are nursing their bank accounts. At the Mirage and MGM Grand, both popular with the big-money crowd, second-quarter earnings were down 31% and 56% respectively...
...this week was anything but subtle. Flowers, who nearly derailed President Clinton's bid for the White House in 1992, sang "Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?" and "Why Haven't I Heard From You?" during her performance at the Electronic Retailing Association's annual conference at the MGM Grand Hotel. Flowers declined to comment on Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky because, she said, she has no interest in generating any more publicity on the issue. "They don't need any of my help on that...
...Jersey wants to be Las Vegas, but it falls short. Mike Tyson can tell you that. Kicked out of boxing for munching Evander Holyfield's ear in a prizefight at the MGM Grand on June 28, 1997, he asked forgiveness in New Jersey earlier this summer, but the devil entered him and cussed like a sailor...
Beste and Turner were checking the lines at the MGM sports-book center. If two rats race across a street in New York City, Vegas has a line on it. But strangely, there are no odds on Tyson's chances for reinstatement...