Bev and Jerry,

You made the exact point I wanted to for people like DougR and Martin. Those guys might have jobs where you can be fired at will for any reason, but Linda Ronstadt does not. She has a contract with a venue, and the venue cannot just suddenly decide they don't like her anymore and violate the contract.

This is especially true since the offending remarks occurred in the encore. The whole concert except one song was acceptable, but for that one song we will deprive you of contracted accomodations probably in excess of $1,000.00? Come on, they can't do that, just as if Marty's boss decides to fire him, he still has to pay him for the work he already did.

Here is another newspaper account. This is fuller and gives more details. Apparently, people did NOT ask for their money back because of this incident. Some had asked for their money back in advance, because Ronstadt had been quoted a couple of weeks ago that she didn't much like Vegas. Well, boo hoo! Maybe as a native New Yorker I have a thicker skin, but am I gonna walk out ojn a concert because my town isn't the performer's favorite? That's infantile! Then more asked for their money back early in the concert because the venue had mistakenly billed it as a "greatest hits" concert and she was not planning to do her greatest hits. It looks to me like Timmins was looking for a way to take a generally poor show by both Ronstadt AND the Aladdin and take it out on her vindictively.