Indeed he has. He's also appeared on To Tell the Truth. But a scripted drama? "Absolutely not," Anthony says. "I did a couple of commercials for a site called Bet21.com and I totally sucked."
But upon further questioning, it turns out there are actually two movies that A.C. did "appear" in.
The first was a low-budget movie called Mugsy's Girls back in the '80s that starred Ruth Gordon (her last film) and the singer Laura Branigan. Anthony's then-girfriend, who went by the single name Estrellita, had a role as one of Mugsy's girl's and in a scene shot in the showroom of the now-departed Hacienda, Anthony is seated at the first table next to the stage. Days later when the scene was being edited, Estrellita told him that the director was furious, because "the idiot in the first row never smiled, clapped, or stood up, but just sat there drinking a beer." (She didn't claim him.)
And before that, in fact before A.C. came to Las Vegas, he and his brother, attending college in Orange County, heard a radio DJ announce a call for extras for the stadium-concert scene in Bette Midler's big-screen debut in The Rose. Anthony comments:
"We drove straight over with two big Billy Jack-style black hats on our heads, so we could pick ourselves out when we saw the movie. Great idea -- half of the people in the stadium were wearing big black hats of their own. I think we got $12 and a box lunch and filming ran into the night, but we were there thirty years ago watching Bette belt it out."
As an aside, we were going to ask why you were bothering with a show as universally panned as Las Vegas but then we remembered two words: Vanessa Marcil. We totally understand.
