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Sunday, December 4, 193 The Arizona Republic RLL EDITIONS Lou Gossett Jr. avoids drug charge after completing counseling program Bad English earns British 'award' "I will add that the notice was raised due to the fact that the amount bill on 1st April (the year's charge less the credit brought forward, equalling the first half year's cash) has been divided by two by the machinery which assumed that half of the balance was due in April and half due in October. This is because the machinery could not recognize the prepayment as being in respect of a charge which was not the time raised in the file." What they meant: "We did not realize you already paid." United Press International LONDON The best of the worst English written in Britain won the dubious Golden Bull prizes in an award ceremony aimed at stamping out gobbledy-gook. Government departments and-local councils figured prominently in the black humor awards, sponsored by the National Consumer Council and the Plain English Campaign. One Golden Bull dart went to the Automobile Association.

The auto club replied to a member's sion charge, placed Gossett in the program after the actor pleaded innocent Attorney Edward Brand, no relation to the commissioner, appeared for Gossett, Steiner said. Gossett was arrested March 18, 1982, with Honey Rufner at the Malibu home the couple shared. A small amount of cocaine was seized. Sheriffs deputies said they had been informed that the couple had been giving cocaine to Gossett's son, Satie, who was 7 at the time, and to Rufner's daughter, who was 4. Qossett's son was taken from him, but charges of child endanger-ment were never filed and the-boy was returned to his custody.

Cocaine possession charges were dropped a year ago against Rufher after she completed the counseling program. Brand gave Gossett a six-month extension for beginning the program because of the actor's film-anci television commitments. Gossett insisted he had used cocaine only once "a long, long, long, long time ago," and said the drug was probably left in the house by the previous occupants. Advertisement the USA Flamingo's 'City Lites' remains a spectacular production! By Steven McCann When you have a good thing, why change it! This seems to be the -philosophy of the entertainment -management at the Flamingo Hil-, The hit production "City plates" is fast becoming one of the longest running shows to appear on "hotel's beautiful stage in quite some tiime. The extravaganza opened in Anociated Press MALI3U, Calif.

A drug charge against actor Lou Gossett Jr. was dropped last week when a court commissioner said he was satisfied Gossett successfully completed a six-month drug counseling program. Gossett, who won an Academy Award in 1983 for best supporting actor as the tough drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman, did not appear for the brief Thursday hearing, said court administrator Bob Steiner, Commissioner Richard Brand, who dismissed the cocaine posses Lights" and it became the theme for the finale of the show. But with any new idea for a stage production, actually putting the show together was not one long-flowing motion. "It's like patchwork," says Lane.

"The first thing was that we had just done an ice show Dazzle," which is now playing at the Reno Hilton). We basically wanted to do something both on ice and on the stage. So overall, you'd have to say there really isn't a theme to the show." In addition to "City Lites" and "Razzle Dazzle," Arnold and Moore had worked with Lane on another former Flamingo Hilton production, "Playgirls On Ice." Lane says it takes six to eight months to put such a show to receiving a facelift with budget prices and good service," states the new owner. Morris took ession of the Landmark on Octol r30. Don't let the nail-pounding stop you from attending the Landmark's Single-Deck Blackjack Tournament beginning tommorrow.

The first entrants may buy in for $100 to $300 and play in squads at one of four daily one-hour sessions. Winners will be posted at the end of each tournament session. Based on 500 entries, first prize will be worth $7,825, second prize will be $3,025 and third place will win $1,250. Fifty of the $57 entry fee goes for prizes. Casino manager Ron Nadeau says "we think this is the type of play that will catch on here.

It is priced in a range that anyone can afford to join the action." Entrants may re-enter as often as they like throughout the duration of the tourney scheduled to end on December 23. Play is planned for weekdays only at 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Htf LAS VEGAS MARINA Holiday Special successful enough to run for two years." "In fact, it's one of the most successful 6how in the city, Lane continues. "It could last forever if it continues at its current level." The ideas for any show of this type, says Lane, starts "with the germ of an idea." In the case of "City Lites" it started with a Liza Minnelli song.

George Arnold and Bill Moore produced and directed "City Lites," working closely with Lane, and it was Arnold who snatched an idea from some music he had heard, according to Lane. "One day George came into my office and said, 'Do you like this He'd heard Liza do it and had it on tape." The song was "City Landmark Hotel is A renovation has begun on the Landmark Hotel which will bring the hotel's guest rooms up to first class standards and upgrade many of resort's public areas. William Morris, a Las Vegas businessman and former secretary-tresurer of the Strip's Holiday Casino, recently purchased the Landmark Hotel. Morris said that the 150 rooms in the 31-story tower would be reduced due to the remodeling and expansion of those rooms. The coffee shop will go through some changes, new carpeting is planned for the casino, and the 27th floor restaurant will be redesigned and renamed Anthony's Seafood, and Prime Rib Room.

The spaceship-like looking tower and addition currently contain 500 rooms along with a coffee shop, gourmet restaurant, "Love Song Lounge" featuring music by DJ. Enterprises and a main-floor casino. "We'll compete in this market claim of negligence by a garage by sayingi Whilst as aforesaid, there may be hypothetical merit in what you have stated, to all practical purposes it may be difficult, if not impossible to procure such data or evidence again presupposing that it actually exists." What they meant "Supply the information or forget it," the award said. Another dubious accolade went to Kings Lynn Council in eastern England for a mind-bending letter to a consumer: AO OflO ($00 better the fall of 1981 and continues to be one of the biggest hits on the Las -Vegas Strip. "There was no contracted period of time the show would run," says Dick Lane, director of entertainment for the Flamingo, Las Vegas and Reno Hiltons.

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