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...PAUL ANKA -- The Flamingo...
...circus and a personal trauma. By that time, Klein had discovered drugs and vodka and immersed himself in the luxurious pre-AIDS life of rich gays. He developed a passion for Studio 54, even staying after it closed to help the waiters count change. Then it was on to Flamingo, a gay after-hours club. Final stop was the Mineshaft, a "warren of rooms crowded with men, many openly having sex . . . no cologne or Lacoste shirts, only work clothes and leather allowed." At home, the authors say, Klein plied hustlers with cocaine and Quaaludes, and the wonder is that...
...must justify," Gould wrote in The Flamingo's Smile, "the attempt at such a long shot simply by stating that a positive result would be the most cataclysmic event in our entire intellectual history...
...Siegfried and Roy got the real Jackson to compose and sing their show-closing theme song, Mind Is the Magic. And Madonna? Her just finished Girlie Show world tour, with its Vegas-style dancers and meretricious Vegas-style lighting, is precisely as pseudosexy in 1993 as shows at the Flamingo were in 1963 -- decadence lite...
These days Las Vegas has become so sanitized that some casino operators are complaining. The city's largest hotel, the Excalibur, is a medieval castle that looks like Cinderella's at Disney World. The hotel that Bugsy Siegel built, the Flamingo, is now owned by Hilton. Characters like Benny Binion, who bragged of killing those who crossed him, and Bill Harrah, who in his 60s drag-raced with teenagers on Reno streets, have been displaced by quiet, invisible graduates of business schools. The last convicted felon to be spotted by a local columnist on the Strip was Michael Milken...