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...TIMES IN MY LIFE, I feel it is important to give back to the community in which I live. At other times, gosh, I really crave that Abercrombie & Fitch blue and green plaid shirt that I lost in January. One day last week, I was able to combine both of these desires...
Unfortunately, I was unable to locate my green and blue plaid shirt, It was then that I realized if I couldn't solve and riddles of my own lost past, at least I Might be able to make someone else's day a little bit brighter. Intent on providing a valuable community service (can I put this on my resume?), I rummaged through the boxes, looking for items with names on them. I traveled to other lost and founds, similarly digging through items, then searching for owners. My search complete, I would award these lost and found "prizes," sans...
Peter: She was wearing nothing but my plaid shirt...
Whether it's the Rockettes or the other Broadway and off-Broadway shows that Vegas imports (Guys and Dolls, Starlight Express, Forever Plaid, Beehive), the target audience is the middle-aged tourist with a fat wallet in need of slimming. And Vegas has hit the bull's-eye. In 1994 the flood of tourists swelled 20%, to 28.2 million visits, and entertainment revenues soared almost 16%, to $230 million...
...when MGM auctioned off a good part of its priceless heritage, Reynolds was there to buy costumes worn in some of the studio's famous films, including Leslie Caron's plaid suit from Gigi and Clark Gable's uniform from the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty. "I just started buying on an emotional level," she says. "But after I had bought all this stuff, it struck me: Wouldn't everybody love to see this?" For years, without avail, she tried to interest moguls in financing a movie museum in Hollywood. Then she rolled sevens in Vegas...