Jethro builds a casino!

[Bluebear]

Chasing a 'Hillbillies' dream

Baer hopes to capitalize on Jethro image with casino project
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Here at Bodine's restaurant, Max Baer Jr. cheerfully tells three men sitting at an adjacent table to wait before they leave so they can hear his joke.

It doesn't matter that they haven't uttered a word to him. They have listened to every word that the boisterous Baer has been saying for the past half-hour between bites of his lunch.

To them, Baer, 67, still is Jethro Bodine, the dimwitted young man from the hit 1960s TV show "The Beverly Hillbillies."

It has been three hair transplants since Baer played Jethro, but there can be no mistake in a restaurant called Bodine's just who this man is. Bodine's is owned by one of Baer's former Lake Tahoe neighbors. ...

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