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From the mailbag #3

Posted At : September 4, 2009 02:04 PM | Posted By : D McKee
Related Categories: TV,Entertainment,Downtown,Columbia Sussex,Movies

Reader Kerr_Mudgeon writes, re the case of a Columbia Sussex executive who was the victim of age discrimination:

She was 67 years old, for gosh sake! She should have taken her token (socialist) Social Security checks and gone on (fascist) Medicare, then waited for the inevitable pounding on her door by a (union) thug from (communist) ACORN who insisted on reading her (nonexistent) rights from the Death Book prior to making an appointment for her to stand before the (mandatory) Death Panel which would have assigned her to the most efficient (statist) queue for her to Take The Pill in order to eliminate Obama's $multi-trillion budget deficit - even though he's intentionally destroying the US economy in order to make himself Dictator of the World because he hates everybody and everything that is good = American (of which he is not one). As a matter of fact, if Jesus's will were in effect in this wicked world, she would not have been able to file her vicious law suit, because Tort Reform would have stopped any shady Trial Lawyers from taking her frivolous case!!!

Reader Jinx asks if I really thought X Burlesque was "awful." No, "awful" would be Anthony Cools' Ooh-la-la, thankfully deceased, although Cools threatens periodically to bring it back somewhere else (read: Tropicana). However, the only specifics I can remember of X were that it was hosted by the late Pudgy on the night I saw it and that the dancers were some of the most "augmented" I've seen on the Strip. At least Crazy Girls has two or three memorable numbers and a comfier showroom.

"Tired and boring," though, is the perfect description of Crazy Horse Paris. It's a depersonalization of the female form, like getting trapped in a Helmut Newton photo album. I don't think the astrology segment is in there anymore or, if it is, it's become thoroughly forgettable.

Thanks to reader Jeff in OKC for his shout-out to one of the truly great ladies of the silver screen, Stella Stevens. They don't make dames like her anymore (Christina Hendricks of Mad Men excepted) and, for your pleasure, here's the opening of Las Vegas Lady -- a festival of vintage Glitter Gulch neon.

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Bruce, NV's Gravatar Ironically for Kerr Mudgeon, it was a Democrat who invoked Jesus, saying that He would vote for a "public option".
# Posted By Bruce, NV | 9/4/09 6:56 PM
Kerr Mudgeon's Gravatar Bruce,
I'm sorry... I must have missed it: Can you give us a QUOTE where "a Democrat who invoked Jesus" said "that He would vote for a "public option"?

By the way, I forgot to fully describe the shady Trial Lawyers: Insert "liberal" before, after, or in place of "shady"; there are so many denigrations in the ever-growing rightist 'Dictionary of No' that I missed this one.
# Posted By Kerr Mudgeon | 9/5/09 1:08 AM
Jinx's Gravatar Thanks for the mention. I never saw the show when Pudgy was alive, although VegasRex had given her high marks for her set in the middle. I believe the comedian now in the middle of the show is Nancy and she has a similar style (again only from reading comparisons). The thing I liked about X, while not perfect in art, it was fast paced, seemed to provide a fair amount of T&A in some variety (although most did seem to be enhanced) and while maybe not for everyone the music at least seemed to be as much a part of the show as the dancers. At 1/2 price it seemed to me to be the perfect Vegas show, not taking itself too seriously, loud, a bit of fun, and in the end you wanted to go drink and gamble. While I didn't like the second viewing of it as much (change in dancers, music, and choreagraphy) it still had it and it was nice to see the show seemed to not have mailed it in for the same old same old.
# Posted By Jinx | 9/8/09 7:21 AM