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Posted At : August 28, 2009 05:00 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Don Marrandino may be Atlantic City-bound but here's how S&G will always remember the Harrah's Entertainment exec, with the Alizma triplets close at hand. For all our ribbing of Marrandino's high-profile lifestyle, he did preside over a much-praised revamp of the Flamingo, and kept the Imperial Palace alive and busy long after it was supposed to have bit the dust. If you need lemons made into lemonade, he's your guy.
Marrandino also seriously rethought the entertainment offerings at the five casinos within his purview. Just in the last couple of years, he's brought on board Donny & Marie, Human Nature, Matsuri and Nathan Burton. Not every one was a jackpot, but the Osmonds and Human Nature were pure gold, and Matsuri has possibilities. I'd love to have that track record.
Replacement Rick Mazer looks promising, not least because he's a Jack Binion protégé, not one of the "propeller-heads" of which Harrah's CEO Gary Loveman is famously fond. The Strip could use some Binion-like thinking right now and S&G fervently hopes Mazer is bringing some of that Horseshoe luck with him.
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