{"id":4563,"date":"2010-09-10T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2021-12-31T07:21:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:21:25","slug":"girls-girls-girls-liberace-has-left-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/girls-girls-girls-liberace-has-left-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls! Girls! Girls!; Liberace has left the building"},"content":{"rendered":"

Columbia Sussex<\/strong>‘s Westin Casuarina<\/strong>, the place where shows go to be ignored, is trying again with one-two punch of bodaciousness. Our research staff is doing its best to uncover details on Burlesque: The Show<\/em>, for which we have nothing more than a half-page ad to serve as guidance. LVA<\/em> knows a bit more about Vegas’ newest illusionist<\/a>, Ariann Black<\/strong>, here to fill the void left by Scarlett, Princess of (Allegedly) Felonious Assault<\/strong>. She seems to have charm, even if it’s not auspicious to headline your Web page with the proclamation that you have “the cache [sic<\/em>] of being a Las Vegas Star.” (How often does she have to delete cookies from her browser?)<\/p>\n

Good news<\/strong> for those who can still get a kick out of MGM Grand<\/strong>‘s pretentious Crazy Horse Paris<\/em><\/a> show. No, Carmen Electra<\/strong><\/a> isn’t coming back, nor has Holly Madison<\/strong> made good on her promise\/threat to join the cast. However, Playboy<\/em>‘s Miss October, Claire Sinclair<\/strong>, will be going “on the line” for three numbers, Oct. 21-28. In addition to being the youngest (age 19) guest star in the show’s history, Sinclair’s never played to a live audience before. It must be odd to headline a show you’re barely old enough to attend.<\/p>\n

Disaster!<\/strong> There’s no other word for the closing of the Liberace Museum<\/strong>. Even for those of us who don’t “get” the whole Liberace<\/strong> mystique, it’s an amazing exhibit and certainly unique (as befits the inimitable “King of Bling”). The Tropicana Avenue<\/strong> location has been a problem as has the — let’s be honest — dying off of the core Liberace demographic: visitation is one-ninth of what it was in peak years<\/a>. The museum’s closure also marks the end of a slew of highly creative cabaret acts, including pianist Philip Fortenberry<\/strong> and singer Ali Spuck<\/strong><\/a>, that aren’t likely to be picked up anywhere else. The flameout of the museum chars not one but several holes in the fabric of Vegas.<\/p>\n

The collection may soon be coming to a museum near you, much in the fashion of (Ewwwwww!) Bodies<\/em><\/a>. CityCenter<\/strong> is being mooted as a potential landlord, although that may be wishful thinking. One hopes not: The metaresort needs more attractions for jes’ plain folks and a revived Liberace Museum would not only extravagantly apt for Crystals<\/strong>, it would also fill a great deal of the unleased retail space there. How ’bout it Jim Murren<\/strong>? You want to create a mini-city and cities need museums. Fifty-thousand additional visitors per year wouldn’t hurt, either.<\/p>\n

Between this<\/strong> and the recent foreclosure auction at the former Liberace mansion (two doors from my house, BTW), it’s been a bad month for Mr. Showmanship.<\/p>\n

Mad(e) Men<\/strong><\/em>. The missus and I just finished season 3 of Mad Men<\/em> last night (Joan Holloway<\/strong> returns!) If and when — hopefully not for several years yet — the brilliant Matthew Weiner<\/strong> decides to move onto different subject matter, might I request Las Vegas in the years of Mob<\/strong> rule (prior to the events depicted so definitively in Martin Scorcese<\/strong>‘s masterpiece, Casino<\/em>)? It’s a period steeped in drama and overdue for an unsentimentalized portrayal — unless one counts a handful of scathing scenes in Francis Ford Coppola<\/strong>‘s Godfather<\/em> trilogy — and Weiner is just the writer to capture the double-dyed nature of Sin City’s mid-century various movers and shakers; even the ostensibly virtuous people in town had made some Faustian pact or other. Possible drawback<\/em>: Potential exposure to Seventies fashion (an oxymoron if ever one existed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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