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Posted At : October 21, 2008 03:18 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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If you still harbor a belief in the urban myth that Bugsy Siegel "founded" Las Vegas or "created" the Flamingo (or was anything like the cartoonish version propounded by Warren Beatty on film), UNLV has the thing for you. It's a presentation entitled, “There Were Few Solid Facts to Get in the Way: Popular Perceptions of Bugsy Siegel as Founding Father of Las Vegas.”
Dr. Larry Gragg of the Missouri University of Science & Technology will separate myth from fact in re Bugsy. Says David G. Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at UNLV, "this guy has done way more serious research into Bugsy Siegel than anyone else I've heard of." It's at 7:30 p.m., Thursday night at Lied Library's Extended Study Lounge. Better still, it's free. Check it out. This may be the best "comp" of the year.
Terry Fator, ventriloquist and puppet proctologist.
Terry Fator gets props from one of our spies, who caught him at the Las Vegas Hilton and thinks "Mirage might have a winner, especially since he still has that thrill of performing going for him." Besides, the casino will be able to boast a headliner whose name recognition actually extends past the borders of Clark County. (LVA readers give Fator five stars out of five.)
Only 11 more weeks to dig these dancing queens.
It's illogical compensation for the imminent demise of Mamma Mia! at Mandalay Bay (the only event that could depress me remotely as much as Sarah Palin in the White House). But ... the Belfast Telegraph reports that the Meryl Streep-starring movie version is setting pre-release DVD sales records in the U.K. It's already outstripped sundry Harry Potter titles, is about to deliver a Bourne Ultimatum and may even topple Star Wars IV-VI (i.e., the ones with Jar-Jar Binks).
Speaking as someone who was born in Lexington, Virginia (y'know, Nancy Pfotenhauer's "real Virginia") and grew up in lovely Midwestern towns that probably qualify as Gov. Palin's "pro-America" parts of the U.S., I have but one thing to say about this current epidemic of more-American-than-thou rhetoric and I shamelessly stole it from Jon Stewart: "Pfuck you!"
Sorry, but I just had to get that off my chest. All better now.
As an LVA subscriber I have recently begun to read your comments on occasion. However, I thought it wise to point out that your regular snarky comments about political figures whom you oppose do nothing but drive half your potential readership away. If I want to read political commentary I can head to Free Republic or Democratic Underground. I would encourage you to keep your political opinions out of a blog about Las Vegas gambling.
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