Longtime Flyers announcer GENE HART passed away
yesterday. He was 68 (Flyers)....The WWF "closed a deal
yesterday" to create a "massive" $25M theme restaurant with
"more than" 600 seats in N.Y.'s Paramount Theater site,
located at 43rd St. and Broadway. It is expected to be open
in early November (N.Y. TIMES, 7/15)....TV GUIDE profiles
"the new stars of NASCAR" and runs four different
collectible covers featuring BOBBY LABONTE, TONY STEWART,
JEREMY MAYFIELD and JEFF BURTON (TV GUIDE, 7/17 issue)....In
Cleveland, Bob Roberts wrote on the feud between DENISE
DEBARTOLO YORK and EDDIE DEBARTOLO JR. and wrote the "kids
have been playing an embarrassing game of emotional
checkers" (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 7/14)....In N.Y.,
Mitchell Fink writes that MICHAEL JORDAN has "pulled the
plug" on the Las Vegas roast CHARLES BARKLEY and other NBA
players were planning for Jordan at the MGM Grand (N.Y.
DAILY NEWS, 7/15)....Sparks C LISA LESLIE will appear on the
new Disney TV show "The Jersey," set to air in September
(USA TODAY, 7/15)....The ROONEY family has sold a "shuttered
jai alai arena" in Palm Beach, FL to DON KING for "about"
$6.25M. King will be relocating Don King Productions HQs to
the arena (PITTSBURGH BUSINESS TIMES, 7/12 issue).
