“[Matt] Goss also would bring back some of Sinatra’s bygone sensibilities, chief among them being loyalty to friends.” That’s an interesting remark, considering that the singer began talks with Caesars Palace President Gary Selesner a month after Palms owner George Maloof had prominently featured Goss in a TV spot (he’s 15 seconds in).
The well-dressed Brit sounds like a wonderful chap, the sort of fellow you’d ask to babysit your kids. I won’t pretend to understand the imperative to make him some kind of Vegas insta-phenom (and his woozy Frank Sinatra interpretations veer dangerously close to parody) but he certainly is possessed of the enviable ability to make middle-aged women ovulate on cue. (Hugh Hefner must be green with envy.) Still whatever claim to Vegas celebrity he owns — including the coinage of the baneful adjective “Gossy” — he owes all but exclusively to Maloof. If Goss jumped ship to Cleopatra’s Barge (rather than being made to walk the plank), Maloof’s got a right to view those comments about “loyalty” with just a tinge of bitter irony.
