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“Mmm-hm,” muttered a Tropicana Las Vegas official when I asked if the exhibit which will be taking up half the newly vacated Trop pavilion (former indoor tennis courts that look like an airplane hangar) was indeed Antoinette Giancana‘s long-mooted Mafia museum. So Mayor Oscar Goodman‘s pet project for downtown will have some serious South Strip competition, after all. Now if only copies of Ms. Giancana’s February 1987 Playboy spread were to be on sale in the gift shop …

(CBS-TV‘s Let’s Make a Deal has has scuttled back to Los Angeles, after less then nine months of production at the Trop. For this we lost Guiding Light?)

MGM Mirage is rolling out a new online booking engine that’s multilingual: Italian, Spanish, French, German, Japanese … but not Chinese. At least not yet. (Korean and Portugese are also in the works.) A Kirvin-Doak spokesman says that Chinese-language booking is available at the individual Bellagio and MGM Grand Web sites butThe order in which … foreign language booking engines were developed and launched is based on the volume of Web site traffic coming from each area.” Hey, China, aren’t you carrying this Internet-crackdown a little too far? What about all those Chinese whose life’s dream is to stay at Circus Circus? Lighten up a little.

Speaking of the Green Monster, its four-wall presentation of execrable Girls Night has been held over through May 3o. Overbearing as the show is, this makes good sense. What’s the point of yanking it from Studio 54 just prior to Memorial Day weekend? If it was already doing good business on a regular Sunday in May, just think how much better a holiday weekend will be. I’m actually glad The Powers That Be wised up to that.

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