Tonight’s a big night for Planet Hollywood, as it debuts its new, Britney Spears headliner show. However, judging from public disinterest in Spears’ recent TV special, Caesars Entertainment may be drawing to a weak hand.
“Bally Technologies Inc. received some coal in its Christmas stocking this 
year,” writes Chris Sieroty of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The slot manufacturer is alleged to have taken a cavalier attitude toward registering its employees with the state. Registrations have been anywhere from 2.5 months to 10 years (!) behind the curve. The problem isn’t widespread, comprising 28 registrations, but that’s probably not insignificant enough to keep Bally out of the penalty box. It’s a rerun of a 2008 scenario, in which Bally paid $65,500 for neglecting to register 65 workers. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to have blown it once may be characterized as misfortune but twice looks like carelessness.
If you or I were accruing wealth at $41 million/per day, we’d be happy campers, not bitter, old men, yelling at progress. Then again, we’re not Sheldon Adelson, are we?
O’Shea’s, once the armpit of Caesars Entertainment‘s Strip casinos, reopens today in shiny, new form. What’s the over/under on how long before it goes to the dogs, like its predecessor?
