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...competing with Las Vegas. The Nevada gaming mecca, situated 300 miles from the population center of its major market, Southern California, has suffered badly from the recession as tourism has dwindled. Several casinos there, including the famed Aladdin and the Dunes, are reportedly for sale, as is the Riviera, a once popular showcase for Hollywood performers...
pliant, indecisive playboy who preferred the French Riviera to Beirut, though that was not his reputation in Lebanon. However, White House aides noted approvingly last week that Gemayel had come to his meeting with President Reagan well prepared, with his points outlined on index cards. Said a senior State Department official: "He knows what he wants, he knows he needs help and he is under
Early this month, Connery was flexing the old charm in the Riviera town...
...Accuse, Greene reveals what he has learned about the shady side of the sunny French Riviera. He became interested in the subject when the daughter of a close friend got involved in a messy divorce. After the couple separated, the estranged husband, Daniel Guy, a real estate operator in Nice, allegedly threatened his wife by hinting of his connections with the milieu, local argot for the Nice underworld. Greene tells a harrowing tale of purported assaults on Guy's wife and her father, the kidnaping of the couple's child by Guy, and threats, including a heavy hint...
...late '70s, however, the fees suddenly doubled and tripled. When the Riviera signed Dolly Parton for a widely publicized $350,000 a week in 1979, every other entertainer in town put a call through to his agent. As Jenkins remembers it: "Every other performer with an ego the size of the Astrodome said, 'If that big-bosomed broad is making that kind of money, I should be too.' " Two years ago, the bubble burst: for only the second time in its 50-year history as a gambling resort, Las Vegas felt the effects of a national recession...