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More Celebrity Antics at The Cove Atlantis

Where: Casino Drive, Nassau, Bahrain

Janet Jackson leaves the nip-slipping to Lindsay Lohan for the weekend.

Looks like the opening weekend for The Cove at Atlantis was a huge success, thanks to all the celebs they pulled in. Aside from Lindsay Lohan (who was rumored to be drinking and smoking weed), there are more reports of celebs letting loose.

USA Today has a lengthy wrap-up including a sidebar on what celebs did and said over the weekend.

For example:

-John Travolta, looking very Saturday Night Fever in a white jacket over black shirt and slacks, turned up at Saturday night's '70s-themed party. Seated at his table, along with Quincy Jones and Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, was Gloria Estefan. "I asked him if it was the original suit from Saturday Night Fever, but he said it wasn't," said Estefan.

Gayle King and America "Ugly Betty" Ferrara raved about the fireworks show, Nick Lachey said he loved being there with Vanessa, Bo Derek has tried every waterslide in the resort, Star Jones sucks at tennis, Janet Jackson got to pet some dolphins and Quincy Jones says today's party scene ain't nothing like the days of Ray Charles, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.

It seems like this was a very obvious and extravagant PR event where every celebrity was expected to say something nice about the resort to the reporters, except for Lindsay Lohan who bravely bared her nipple for the internet instead.

Related Stories:
· Celebrities Swarm the Cove at Atlantis for Hotel Opening Party [HotelChatter]
· Janet Jackson performs at Sol Kerzner's Grand Opening in Atlantis [Gossip Rocks]

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Ritz-Carlton romp past Gulf Hotel -- and yet still overlooked by IOC

Just when you think extremists in the Middle East -- with their covering up of women's faces and their chopping off of thieves' hands -- can't get any more absurd in a totally backward and scary kind of way, get a load of its newest sporting craze:

Inter-Hotel Bowling.

Curiosity peaked? Too bad, I'm gonna give you the Sportscenter rundown anyway.

"THE Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa bounced back from their defeat in the opening week with a 4-0 whitewash of Gulf Hotel in the second round of the 11th Inter-Hotel Bowling Tournament at the Bahrain Bowling Centre in Seef Mall.

"In other matches, Diplomat won for the second consecutive time defeating Movenpick 4-0 and Sheraton got the better of Regency 3-1," the Gulf Daily News reports.

Boo yeah, Sheraton, and those steroid charges are totally unfounded.

Read thee more for the results of your other favorite auberges going toe to toe in a battle of wits, pins, and smelly shoes (women's scores too!)...  

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Five jailed over hotel sex racket in Bahrain

After putting the "ho" in hotel, five people were jailed in Bahrain for running an unnamed brothel in their lodge, according to the Gulf Daily News.

Four were hotel staff and the fifth was a Chinese prostitute -- a party girl to be sure, but a bit long in the tooth (and other areas, no doubt)-- who gave up house-wiving for trick turning at 45 years of age.

A Bahraini criminal court heard lurid details of the love that spilled out of an elevator.

"The staff ran a scheme in which certain customers were given a blue card, which served as a pass to the fourth floor of the hotel, where several prostitutes operated in separate rooms.

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