Todd Fisher and unsuccessful lease with the casino operator. Debbie eventually won a $10 million judgment in court against her former husband Richard Hamlett, in part for spurious financial dealing with the hotel and her personally. Additional board members of the Hollywood Museum have included Carrie Fisher, director George Lucas, Shirley MacLaine, and Elizabeth Taylor. Upon assuming the role of CEO, Fisher began restructuring the company, in order to address financial mismanagement, diminished employee morale, and poor customer service and quality throughout the hotel, casino, and restaurant. Prior to March 31, 1996, Jackpot Enterprises contracted with the company to lease space to
Sam Warner to accept Sam's demands, and the Warner brothers pushed ahead with a new Vitaphone feature, based on a Broadway play and starring Al Jolson. "The Jazz Singer" broke box-office records, established Warner Bros. as a major player in Hollywood, and single-handedly launched the talkie revolution. In 1925, after years of bachelorhood, Warner met eighteen-year-old "Ziegfeld Follies" performer and actress Lina Basquette while spending time in New York visiting the Bell Laboratories. The two began an intense love affair. On July 4, 1925, the two were married. While Warner's younger brother Jack did not object to Basquette's Catholicism, the rest of