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Article: 'Beverly Hillbillies' May Be Casino Theme
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- August 18, 2003
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Dateline: CARSON CITY, Nev.
Nearly four years after his dreams for a Jethro's Beverly Hillbillies
casino fizzled in Reno, actor Max Baer Jr. is planning a $54 million
resort in a former Wal-Mart store a half-hour's drive away in Nevada'
s capital city.
"It's a very different concept from anybody that's doing anything
else," Baer said Friday in describing the 240-room hotel-casino venture
that will key on the popular "Beverly Hillbillies" TV series in which
he starred as the doltish Jethro Bodine.
Among the highlights: a 200-foot-tall, ...