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Legendary Las Vegas neon sign designer Betty Willis, known for her world-famous “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, talks about how she created her illustrious masterpiece and the significance of each of the sign’s various symbols. (By Trent Ogle, Las Vegas Sun)
To read more about Willis and her “Welcome” sign, read John Katsilometes’ blog at the Las Vegas Weekly.
Some of the video topics include……..
– Willis’ favorite sign was the one atop the old Mint Hotel. “I remember flying back from Reno once, I’d fallen asleep and it was such a short flight, I woke up and saw that sign and said, ‘Wow! Reno has a Mint sign just like ours!’”
– The starburst at the top of the sign is a nod to Disneyland and Disney films, to promote happiness.
– She designed the Moulin Rouge sign with bold, swooping strokes to draw attention to the brazen ambition of the hotel, which catered to an African-American clientele when the Vegas casino scene was segregated. “I wanted to make it as impressive and as happy and as good as I could,” she said.
– The shape of the Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas sign was inspired by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company logo.
– Willis’ fellow designers tried to persuade her to write, “Keep Nevada Green,” on the sign’s back (which would be read by tourists, many of them who lost money at the casinos, as they left town). Willis argued for a more friendly send-off. “I didn’t think (Keep Nevada Green) was very nice,” she said. “Repeat business is always better.”
– The seven silver dollars that spell “Welcome” were chosen because they wanted the sign to look “lucky.”
– There are now three Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas-designed signs in the city: the original, the sign on Las Vegas Boulevard North that reads, “Welcome to Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas,” and a third on Boulder Highway (or, the Boulder Strip) that marks the understood gateway from the Boulder Highway to Las Vegas. That sign stands just south of Sam’s Town and north of Tropicana Avenue and is several feet taller than the original.
– Willis has never trademarked the sign. “It’s my gift to the city,” she said. “People from all over the world ask about it.”
The Fremont Street Experience is paying tribute to 1969 all summer with free rock concerts, plenty of tie-dye T-shirts and peace symbols to trigger memories of a year many people say resonates with them to this day.
The bands expected were heavy hitters in the day _ Blood, Sweat and Tears, Three Dog Night, the 5th Dimension, Rare Earth, the Grass Roots and Canned Heat.
Organizers have hired John Van Hamersveld _ an artist recognizable for his movie artwork for “The Endless Summer” in 1966 and for the cover of the Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” album in 1967 _ to paint two buses, one to be used as a stage.
Special video shows planned for a giant screen hanging over the street include a rolling-credits style memorial for the 58,000 Americans killed or missing in action from the Vietnam War.
The comprehensive promotion gives tourists an excuse to celebrate hippy sensibilities, the first astronauts walking on the moon and Woodstock.
But the 10 casinos located in the venerable section of Las Vegas are hoping the 108 days of throwback entertainment result in more visitors to help revive the city’s top industry.
“It’s coming at a time when it plays well,” said Jeff Victor, president of the Fremont Street Experience, the management company in charge of promoting the destination.
Victor said he and others felt Fremont Street didn’t do enough events during the summer.
Fremont Street Experience is spending about $1.7 million on the campaign between the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends, $500,000 more than it normally would during the season. Officials want to increase the share of Sin City visitors that go downtown, less than 3 miles north of the end of the Las Vegas Strip.
Victor said each casino is also making plans to tie to the 1969 theme.
“This economy and Las Vegas in particular requires retail opportunities for visitation, and that’s exactly what this promotion provides,” Victor said. “With people in their 50s and 60s, there is an emotional connection (to 1969).”
Forty years later, Las Vegas finds itself scrambling to reach visitors who are coming less often, spending less money on food and entertainment and not gambling as much.
Visitor volume was down 10 percent for all of Las Vegas for the first two months of this year compared with 2008, according to the latest figures available from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Casinos downtown earned $83.9 million in gambling revenue in January and February, down 17 percent from the first two months of 2008, the tourism agency said. Other casinos in the rest of the county experienced similar declines.
But a recent profile study by the tourism authority showed that 46 percent of Las Vegas visitors in 2008 spent some time downtown during their trip. That was down significantly from 57 percent in 2006, but up from 40 percent in 2007.
The 10 casinos on the Fremont Street Experience have a combined 6,600 hotel rooms _ 4.7 percent of all the hotel rooms in the city.
Victor said the 1969 campaign could be first of several seasonal themes for Fremont Street _ if downtown can pull it off.
“We’ll be checking to see a promotion of this duration is repeatable,” Victor said.
Sun, Apr 26, 2009 (1:21 p.m.)
LINKS http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/apr/26/downtown-vegas-reliving-groovy-1969-this-summer/
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RAY ROMANO and BRAD GARRETT
THE MIRAGE – Terry Fator Theater
MAY 8-9, 2009
A double dose of comedy comes your way as two television superstars take to the stage in Vegas on May 8, 2009. From the set of the hit television show Everybody Love Raymond, star Ray Romano and big brother Brad Garrett team up for a night of side-splitting comedy. Catch these superstar actors as they go back to their roots and perform in their natural element of stand-up comedy.
Brad Garrett is a two-time Emmy Award-winning actor and comedian who is best known as Robert Barone in the hit TV sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Brad has headlined at many Las Vegas casinos and opened for stars such as The Temptations, Frank Sinatra, David Copperfield, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr., The Beach Boys and Julio Iglesias. He has also starred in many movies; to name a few: Casper, Spy Hard, A Bug’s Life, Stuart Little 2, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille. In 1989, the Las Vegas Review Journal named him the Best Comedian working on the strip.
Ray Romano grew up in the Forest Hills section of the borough of Queens in New York City and turned to comedy in his mid-twenties after appearing at an open-mic night in a New York comedy club in 1984. The same year, he gave up outside work and won a standup comedy competition sponsored by a local radio station. He went on to appear in comedy clubs around the country, eventually getting television exposure on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and its successor with Jay Leno, then on Late Night with David Letterman. Letterman offered him a development deal with his production company, Worldwide Pants, which led to the 1996 launch of the situation comedy Everybody Loves Raymond on CBS. The show got good ratings and attracted favorable critical comment. Romano earned Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1999, 2000, and 2001. He won awards from the Television Critics Association (Outstanding Individual Achievement in Comedy, 1999), the American Comedy Awards (Funniest Male Lead in a TV Series, 2000), and TV Guide (Actor of the Year in a Comedy Series, 2001). He is also the author of the best-selling book Everything and a Kite.
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Ray Romano makes a wise career move
Staff Report
Ray Romano had plans to become an accountant before stepping onstage during an open-mike night at a New York comedy club in 1984. That same year, he won a stand-up comedy contest and started down a different career path.
Romano made regular appearances at comedy clubs and on talk shows, including “The Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno and the “Late Show with David Letterman.” The Letterman gig led to a deal with the production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated, leading to the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” which began in 1996.
His hit TV show earned Romano nominations and awards, including a 2002 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy and the 2002 and 2003 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Male TV Performer, and he shared the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Besides having an award-winning TV series, Romano also tackled other projects. He headlined a comedy festival at Carnegie Hall, won and donated $125,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and wrote the best-selling book “Everything and a Kite.” He also released the CD “Ray Romano: Live at Carnegie Hall,” whose proceeds went to the September 11th Fund.
Romano lent his voice to the 2002 animated film “Ice Age,” where he played Manny the woolly mammoth. He also appeared in “Eulogy” (2004) and “Welcome to Mooseport” (2004). In 2006 he revised his role of Manny in “Ice Age: The Meltdown.”
Everybody loves BradBy Deana Waddell
Brad Garrett is free at last, or so he says. The former co-star of “Everybody Loves Raymond” has ended his nine-year run on the Emmy award-winning sitcom and gone back to doing what he does best: stand-up.
The towering comedian takes the stage by storm in a no-holds-barred comedy routine that leaves audiences laughing long after he has left the stage. It’s no wonder the funnyman was named the first $100,000 grand champion winner on “Star Search” in 1984 at the youthful age of 23.
Fans of the hit show may be caught by surprise at Garrett’s quick wit. Best known as the dull, deep-voiced Robert Barone, Garrett is nothing like his alter ego — his voice is not so deep, and his animated demeanor is anything but dull.
The comedian, who has worked with such stars as Frank Sinatra, Smokey Robinson and Sammy Davis Jr., performs what would be the musical equivalent of an unplugged show, where his routine is uncensored and hilarious. The two-time Emmy-award winner isn’t afraid to stray from his routine when somebody from the audience walks in late, leaves to go to the bathroom or just looks ripe for the picking. And his humor isn’t for the fainthearted — anyone and anything is open for mocking.
Check your politically-correct thoughts at the door and open up your mind, as Garrett has an anything-goes attitude and doesn’t hold back. Celebrities such as Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton are fair game, as are his wife and children. And don’t be surprised if he picks on you, too.
The comedian, whose voice can be heard in such films as “Casper,” “Toonsylvania” and “Finding Nemo,” shines brightest when he is put on the spot, answering any number of questions from the audience. The night I saw the comedian, a college student asked Garrett to “bust a move” like he sometimes did on “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Garrett first teased the student, poking fun of him and the number of drinks he might’ve had, and then invited him and a friend up on stage for photos. Making every minute memorable, Garrett channeled Robert Barone and goofily danced while posing for a photo shoot all to the music of “Disco Inferno.”
Other highlights include Garrett, who likens himself to a cross between Greg Brady and Herman Munster and proves it by impersonating Munster, doing a laugh-inducing imitation of former co-star, Ray Romano.
Paying homage to his moments on the show, Garrett ends the night with amusing outtakes from “Everybody Loves Raymond.” While Garrett may complain that Romano is “one rich bastard,” it’s Garrett’s humor and spontaneity that are priceless.
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AN OPEN LETTER FROM KINKY FRIEDMAN:
Dear Fellow Texans:
Here’s the way I see it: Democrats + Independents = Victory.
I was serious when I ran for governor in 2006 and I’m serious now. I am a humorist, but I know these are not humorous times for a lot of us. Part of the reason is the pathetic lack of leadership at the state level. The last governor, I believe, who was truly on the side of the people of Texas, was Ann Richards. She was a very funny lady – she was also a great governor. I’ll take my cues from Ann Richards.
I also draw inspiration from Ann Richards’ mentor, Barbara Jordan. Barbara believed that if one is attacked personally, one should never counterattack personally. During the 2006 campaign I was attacked personally. However, like Barbara Jordan, I have no desire to attack anyone personally. Instead, like Barbara, I will merely relegate them to my forgive and remember list.
It’s time to end corporate handouts, get rid of the death penalty, get rid of the TAKS Test, and get rid of the Republican stranglehold on this state. Jim Hightower told me he believes the main reason we’ve lost every statewide race since Ann Richards is the inability of our candidates to excite the grassroots. Jim is talking about rural folks, working people, independents, libertarians and even disgruntled Republicans (many of whom used to be Democrats and should be on our side).
I intend to run a serious campaign, one that grows the party. I intend to visit and listen to the voices of neglected communities, small towns, suburbs, and rural areas, often where Democrats have lately feared to tread. This, I feel, is the very definition of being a Democrat. I intend to play by the rules. I will endorse and campaign for whomever wins the Democratic Primary.
Will the independents support me and vote as Democrats? I think they will. I think many Texans appreciate and respect anyone who gets knocked down and gets back up to fight again. Will Democrats take me seriously? I think they will. When Barbara Jordan, who may well be Texas’ only modern-day statesman, was a young girl she was never very serious in school. The teachers reported to her father
(Ben Jordan, a very strict part-time preacher), that though she was the smartest kid in the class, she was a perpetual cut-up, a troublemaker and a class clown. When Ben had finally had enough of Barbara’s antics, instead of reprimanding her with his customary fire and brimstone iron-hand style, he tried a different approach. Barbara, he said, I’ll stick with you just as far as you want to go. That turned her around, and the rest is truly history.
So I say to Democrats who may not yet take me seriously, I’ll stick with you just as far as you want to go. If we stick together we’ll go very far indeed. All the way to the Governor’s Mansion!
God Bless Texas,
Kinky Friedman
PS: Please show me you’re serious about Texas’ future too by making a campaign contribution now to Texans for Kinky.
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