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...worlds of high risk and heavy metal are coming together. Peter Morton, trend-sensitive co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, plans to open a Hard Rock hotel-casino in Las Vegas by late 1992. The 326-room property would be the resort's first casino to target patrons more versed in Ben E. King than Benny Goodman. Morton's chain of 11 Hard Rock restaurants, which serve down- home food and vintage rock, has grown to annual revenues of nearly $100 million. Morton's latest smash hit: a Hard Rock restaurant in Las Vegas, an instant landmark thanks...
JELLY ROLL MORTON AND HIS RED HOT PEPPERS. Headed by Terry Waldo, a 7-piece stage band joyfully recreates the music of this legendary New Orleans pianist, composer, hustler and pool shark who dubiously claimed to have "invented" jazz and undoubtedly put his mark...
...procession trudges along the service road of American history, looking distinguished and wistful: George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, George M. Dallas, William King, Hannibal Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax, William A. Wheeler, Levi P. Morton, Garret A. Hobart, Charles W. Fairbanks, Charles Dawes, John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, Alben Barkley...
...anything, the question is whether the cuts will prove enough to keep the News there. Says newspaper analyst John Morton: "Maxwell has made a very risky move." During the strike, which led to truck burnings, beatings and intimidation of news dealers, the unions so effectively discouraged sales of the paper that the Tribune Co. practically gave it away. It let hundreds of hawkers, many of them homeless, buy stacks of 100 copies for $2.50 to peddle at 35 cents each...
MARCUS ROBERTS: ALONE WITH THREE GIANTS (Novus/RCA). How old do you have to be to take on a giant? David was a mere slip when he brought down Goliath, but jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, 27, isn't interested in confrontation. He's paying tribute to Ellington, Monk and Morton, re-interpreting them in a way that's full of warmth, empathy and musical surprise...