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Sunday, January 28, 1990. The Arizona Republic Ell 3Ef Body count shows Musicians' Union lost the war mf It ABOUT THE WRITER) Don Uiherion the host of a wttkly one-hour entertainment talkvariety show "Don Uthw kmi'i Lot Vegu At Night," Mm on the ARC affiliate KTNV-TV13 vtry Friday and Saturdy in lai Vegai. Ho li th former ontortainmmt critic of Novada'i largoit newipaper and formtr 1 public rolatloni director for the MGM Grand I and Tropkona hotolt. sent out a press release saying recurring role in "The Father Efforts to stop eroding Trump for Trump's Castle In Dowling Mysteries and a featured appearance on "Jake and the Fatman" in February. He has also resumed his singing career by signing a multi-week deal with Donald Atlantic City.

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When the "Playboy's" show leaves the hotel, the duo will takeover permanently. The showroom has been renovated and will be used to house lounge performers also. Tim Searcy, who was the starring genie in the Aladdin's Abracadabra magical music revue, has abruptly departed. Last week, he and his manager reportedly got into a riff with co-producer of the show, Patrick Jackson (who. produces it with his dad Peter), and was excused from further performances.

Former Las Vegas celebrity restauranteur Gianni Russo is again making major strides as an actor and stage performer. After several major movie appearances, including a featured role in the original "Godfather," he opened a restaurant in Vegas called "State Street." Last year he sold the eatery and went into singing fulltime, beginning with a major gig-as Don Rickles opening act at the Golden Nugget. He has resumed his acting career and has several major projects underway including a 1 1 1 Oth; -taped music fail By Don Usherson by the time you read this, the Las Vegas musicians' strike against several major hotels will be over. The last headlining enter-'tainer to lose or cancel a gig "'because of the strike will be Burt Bacharach, who did not perform last weekend with bionne Warwick at Caesars Palace as scheduled. He was replaced by comedian George Jflrby, who returned to the Strip -after a long absence.

The bottom-line question is "Who were the winners in the seven-and-a-half-month-long strike?" Leaders of the local musi-, cians' union will tell you no one on. However, since the union was trying to stop the insur-' gence of taped music into the 'showrooms and was trying to prevent the loss of certain work guarantees for its members when the whole thing started, it looks like they indeed, were the loosers. They neither stopped the replacement of many musicians by tape nor did they get "the work guarantees. Certainly the hotels were hurt by the affair but really lost only -a few battles. The union lost the war.

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