{"id":374,"date":"2009-06-15T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/6\/15\/Loveman-in-denial"},"modified":"2020-06-20T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T15:34:00","slug":"loveman-in-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/loveman-in-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Loveman in denial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harrah’s Entertainment<\/strong> CEO Gary Loveman<\/strong> continues his media-availability tour. In today’s installment, he grants an audience to the Las Vegas Business Press<\/em> and insists that not only is everything as right as rain<\/a> at Harrah’s but that the LBO he steered the company into is really “an ability to focus on long-term viability and the health of the business.” (Bond analysts remain skeptical.)<\/p>\n

Despite bragging on the vast “resources and … expertise” of Apollo Management<\/strong> and TPG Capital<\/strong>, Loveman doesn’t have any new strategems or projects to offer. The overwhelming consensus of stock analysts and customers nowadays is that Less = Less at a Harrah’s-owned property. Meanwhile, the debtholders who bankrolled the buyout are asked to take haircut after haircut, and could be forgiven for thinking they’ve been played for suckers. Is anybody<\/em> benefiting from this deal? Oh, I forgot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One could go on<\/strong> but the story’s mostly a rehash of old Loveman platitudes, plus another refrain of “We Love Macao.” Harrah’s management has been warbling that tune incessantly of late — so much so that it sounds like an overt courtship of Pansy Ho<\/strong>, should she and MGM Mirag<\/strong>e get a divorce.<\/p>\n

The most newsworthy aspect of the story is the accompanying photo, in which the former Harvard prof appears to gotten a deep chestnut-brown dye job. If indeed that’s the case, Loveman should ask for his money back: It’s not only undignified, it’s inept.<\/p>\n

Gordie Brown goes down<\/strong>: If you think Loveman gets a bad review, you should read about the Golden Nugget<\/strong>‘s star attraction<\/a>, who inhabits “a place where pop culture pressed ‘pause’ at about the time of ‘Achy Breaky Heart,’ Hootie & the Blowfish<\/strong> and Forrest Gump<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Then again, there must be people who groove to Herv\u00e9 Villechaize<\/strong> jokes. Trouble is, they’re all going to be down at the Riviera<\/strong><\/a>, watching Charo<\/strong>. And when you’re described as a poor man’s Danny Gans<\/strong> … well, do the blows land any lower than that?<\/p>\n

Great news for slot players<\/strong>: Seven more years<\/a> of Clue<\/strong> and Battleship<\/strong>. Give Hasbro<\/strong> credit for knowing a good thing (in this case, its alliance with WMS Gaming<\/strong>) when it saw it. And, just because we can’t say it enough, WMS’ Star Trek<\/em> machines are the cat’s pajamas. Just for the record, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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