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According to the UK Times, Chris Albrecht was sacked.

The Wall Street Journal reported that HBO lost its top executive. The article also said:

"Earlier this week, Chris Albrecht, head of Time Warner Inc.'s HBO cable unit, was arrested on charges tied to a physical confrontation with his girlfriend. The scandal deepened after a newspaper report said he had also assaulted a woman in the past..."

It appeared that his drunken assult of HBO big wig Chris Albrecht's lady friend in the parking lot of the MGM after the Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather was not his first incidence of violence towards women. He kicked a a female in the early 1990s and HBO settled for 400K payment towards the victim. That's one expensive kick.

Update: The Smoking Gun has the police report posted.

Vonnegut, who wrote books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," died Wednesday at 84.

Although he had stopped writing novels several years ago, he continued to write articles and to lecture regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves.

Think for yourself...? Politicians vote by corporate campaign contributions to their PACs and polls. Americans follow every get rich scheme from flipping real estate to stock market "wizardry," and our students probably don't know who Kurt Vonnegut is and aren't savvy enough to even go on-line for the "Cliff Note" version. Thinking for themselves? Think again.

According to reports in the New York Daily News, Michael Jackson is considering a long-term deal to perform in Vegas, similar to performers like Celine Dion and Elton John.

One of the proposals to lure Jackson fans to a future venue--or to stroke poor Michael's fragile ego--is a 50-foot robot statue, complete with lasers. "It would be the first thing people flying would see," entertainment consultant Mike Luckman told the Daily News.

OK, I want to change my mutant nightmare (See Mutant Cane Toads....) of ten foot high Mayor Oscar Goodman bobble head dolls to one fifty foot statue of Michael Jackson. I will leave town, I swear.

Each year, hundreds of new products make their debut at Global Gaming Expo G2E and some 70 companies already have reported they will present more than 150 new products at G2E 2006.

Overall, G2E 2006 will feature over 750 companies with more than 320,000 square feet of exhibit space on the trade show floor. G2E 2006 will take place November 14-16 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

While still embroiled in an embittered brouhaha in Rhode Island over its plans to build and operate a casino with the Narragansett tribe (Raucous debate over casino), and still considering bids from Texas Pacific Group and Apollo Management, Harrah's Entertainment (HET.N), the world's biggest casino operator, extended the offer deadline for London Clubs International (LCI.L) a second time, as it seeks to purchase the company for $530 million.

Is there anyone left for Harrah's to invite to dinner?