Lola. Showgirl. Etc.

The relatively short wait is over. Barry Manilow kicked off his residency at Paris Saturday night with his new stage show and riding the wave of cachet he picked up from talking about the Band-Aid jingle on Conan’s second-to-last Tonight Show. Actually, as cachet industry watchers have noted, that’s not actually a ton of cachet. More than Beck got for pseudo-anonymously playing guitar on the “Freebird” finale, less than Adam Sandler got for admitting he got fired by SNL. Manilow’s new deal calls for 78 shows a year and tickets through July 18 are already on sale.

• MGM Mirage is selling $845 million in 10-year notes. Those notes expected to read, “Do U Like Jim Murren? Circle Y/N.”
• Sands pitching pair of casinos in Florida. The jai-alai/dog racing gravy train is coming to an end.
• Vegas unemployment climbs to 13.8 percent. Those are extra people in line who are going to take your soup. Get there early.
• Wynn is relaunching its residential design store Wynn LVNV. You still won’t be able to afford anything there.
• And, just for the hell of it, Lindsay Lohan is suing E*Trade for a commercial allegedly calling her a milkaholic without paying her for using her likeness. The commercial stars babies. While it’s probably pretty likely that Lindsay Lohan thinks she’s an actual baby (today — tomorrow she may think she’s an adorable kitten) she still wants putative damages, asserting she’s “Never touched a drop of milk in her life. … What do you mean, ‘That’s what’s in a White Russian?’ … hang on, case dismissed.”
  

  By Jason Scavone

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