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...roller dreams. The MGM Grand Hotels make dollar-and-cents sense; in the past 4½ years the Las Vegas MGM hotel's floor show has earned nearly $60 million. Some of old Hollywood remains in the new playgrounds. The MGM Grand Hotel and casino newly opened in Reno is colossal: it cost more than $138 million and has the world's largest casino (100,000 sq. ft. of gaming tables plus a jai alai fronton for parimutuel fanatics...
...four continents during his 30-year career as king of showgirl spectaculars. Says Arden: "I find the prettiest girls, put them in the finest feathers and then sink them on the Titanic or burn them up in the Hindenburg. Nobody can do girls and gimmicks like me." The Reno production, his most lavish ever, cost $5 million, but the result is a show that would have made MGM's former titans jubilant. Herewith a fanciful account of how an old mogul might have reviewed proceedings with one of his great showmen from a perch in Shangri...
...they can take it and just as great as it always was. We'll take them full circle: call the casino MGM Grand Hotel and name the show Hello, Hollywood, Hello. Why not? Somebody has to revive Hollywood, even if they've got to go to Reno...
DIED. William Lear, 75, restlessly creative inventor whose farsighted triumphs include the first practical car radio, the autopilot for airplanes, the eight-track stereo cartridge and, more recently, the Learjet; of leukemia; in Reno. Throughout a prodigious career that eventually netted him more than 150 patents, Lear delighted in tackling "impossible" problems. Intrigued by the prospect of designing his own plane, Lear severed connections in 1962 with the electronics firm he had founded, anted up $11 million of his personal fortune, squeezed bank loans and tapped his children's trust funds to finance production of the small, streamlined...
Once again, no stand-outs in the cast: everyone shines so brightly that when they merge, it's blinding. Diane Nabatoff has a voice that cuts through the air like a siren until it laps lullingly against your ear. Her Reno Sweeny has that extra dimension of depth that you find in the best torch singers--mature, at times slightly removed, a little scared of aging, but always supremely poised. Brick Bushman's engaging Billy never lets the character become plastic, and as his beloved, Ellen Burkhardt is a wonderfully pert ingenue, an island of sanity at sea. Kevin Usher...