About 5,000 tickets remain as of yesterday for Friday
night's MIKE TYSON-ANDREW GOLOTA fight at The Palace.
HEARNS ENTERTAINMENT put up $7M to "land the card" at The
Palace (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 10/18). Hearns Entertainment's
TOMMY HEARNS "believes he will be able to make money on the
fight, though his return will be mainly on gate receipts."
Showtime VP Jay Larkin said the PPV numbers are "tracking
very well" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/18)....MUHAMMAD ALI has
filed suit in L.A. against N.Y.-based ACTIVE APPAREL GROUP,
claiming that the company "used his name and signature to
market athletic clothing without his consent." The lawsuit
seeks more than $1M in damages (AP, 10/18). ...NEWSWEEK's
Lorraine Ali reviews OSCAR DE LA HOYA's new self-titled CD
and writes that "under all the lovelorn melodrama and often
saccharine sentiments, De La Hoya can actually sing. His
harmonies are compelling and warm, his delivery solid (and,
most important, sultry)" (NEWSWEEK, 10/23 issue).
MORE NAMES: In Toronto, David Shoalts profiles hockey
agent MARK GANDLER and writes Gandler is "much more than
just the supposed villain in one of the biggest hockey
stories of the past year [the holdout of Senators C ALEXEI
YASHIN]. He is an immigrant from the former Soviet Union
who has built a bustling agency business with hard work and
an intractable negotiating style" (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL,
10/18)....IMG's MARK STEINBERG, on how his client TIGER
WOODS is handling himself in the public spotlight: "If all
this was getting to him, he wouldn't be dominating his sport
the way he is now. He has an incredible knack for keeping
everything in the present. He never gets in front of
himself, and he's a better person than he is a golfer"
(WASHINGTON POST, 10/18)....KEYSTONE ENTERTAINMENT's "MVP:
MOST VALUABLE PRIMATE," a film about a "hockey-playing
chimp," will debut Friday. The "film's star" is on a 15-
city promotional tour, doing halftime exhibitions during NHL
games of such teams as the Coyotes, Mighty Ducks, Blackhawks
and Sharks (VARIETY, 10/9 issue). The hockey-chimp was a
guest on NBC's "Today" show, which focused on some of his
hockey skills (NBC, 10/18)....On "GMA," ABC's Lara Spencer
reported on the Bahamas-based band BAHA MEN's sports anthem
"Who Let the Dogs Out?" The Baha Men, who will appear on
tomorrow's "GMA," have re-recorded the song with a version
called, "Who Let the Mets Out?" and the group will re-do the
video, which will star Mets C MIKE PIAZZA ("GMA," 10/18).
