Have you always dreamed of having lunch with Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island? Well, there's still time to get a bid in for this auction. It's a private harbor cruise with the lovely Dawn Wells, complete with sumptuous buffet and autographed photos, and it's for a good cause. As I write this, it's up to eight hundred bucks.
For those of you keeping score in The Great Disney-Pooh Battle, the Mouse just lost another inning. Here are the bloody details.
The Rio Suites Hotel in Las Vegas is one of my favorite places to stay, and it's trying something new and amazingly controversial. In the past, its cocktail waitresses were hired mainly for their ability to look cute in the skimpy server outfits. Beginning soon, they will not be "cocktail waitresses" at all. They will be "bevertainers" (someone actually invented that word) who will not only serve watery drinks to gamblers but will sing and dance and put on little musical numbers from time to time. This idea — detailed here — could be kinda fun, but it's already upsetting casino patrons for whom the whole point of gambling is to have a voluptuous lady with her top or bottom protruding bring you a free Bloody Mary. They fear the bevertainers will be selected for their singing instead of their measurements, and will be too busy performing to protrude. (Hey, folks — it's just one hotel out of around a hundred. Go somewhere else to see women in humiliating outfits.)