According to a published report, Mr. Woodard was involved in an altercation in 2004 with a security guard for the singer Usher backstage at a concert at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.

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The Strand is still there, but totally renovated as a top-of-the-range hotel, where a bowl of spicy lentil soup and a bottle of Mandalay beer will cost you as much as a room once did.

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The quietly elegant 424-room Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas, which is tucked away on the upper floors of the Mandalay Bay complex on the southern end of the Strip, will complete a total re-do of all its rooms in December, and has remained open for the duration of its renovations.

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