Honestly he should hang it up. I'm sure he doesn't need the money. He is from that workaholic generation like my grandfather. I wouldn't pay money to see him. He most likely has a problem of letting go of the fame or just wants to keep working instead of just watching TV all day. This reminds me of when I hear great actors voices on my orange juice commercials.
Actors, performers, they never really retire. It's in their blood to be on stage. They don't do it for the money either. And the proof of that is the 99% of actors and performers who never made significant money ever.
I just seen Rich Little on TV a couple of weeks ago doing impressions. He's still great as ever. They said he was doing a regular gig at the Tropicana.
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Its very hard to pull off an entire show of impersonations. For that there was Rich little at the top and no one else even close. There was Frank Gorshen ...second rate in comparison.
There have been comedians like Dana Carvey that incorporate impersonations here and there into an act. But no one as talented as Little to last this long and do what he did.
A one of a kind. He had to have the timing of comedians to tell jokes, but also do it at the same time he was in character of a famous person.
The trop is a very small plain room. Maybe 200 people. I saw louie Anderson there maybe 5-6 years ago. Nothing wrong with the small rooms. I saw brenner, Rudner. in small rooms as well.
Whether Little is contemporary or not he once said the hardest voice for him to do was Bruce Springsteen.
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I was in Las Vegas when Casino was being filmed. I think it was the fall of 1994. In the movie I recognized a lot of locations. In the opening scene Ace Rothstein is walking to his car. See the pics below. Can you identify the location where this scene was filmed?
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Too Easy mickeycrimm. Many more difficult filming locations in that movie compared to Main Street Station. Of course his car was really blown up at the Tony Romas on East Sahara but Hollywood doesn't always go for accuracy.
MSS had a Tony Roma's back then too.
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if u are a fan of that show there is a nice 2 year old documentary on Adam west out there.....nicely done before he died. He finally while alive, got a star in Hollywood after people kept pushing for it, and it kept being refused. It was nice to see
It seems like the funniest actors were those who were a couple cans short of a six-pack , like Frank Gorshen (since it really helps with the zaniness). Yes I really liked the deadpan comedy of Adam West and Burt Ward and am glad to hear that Adam got a star. However the new Batman '66 pinball machine from Stern is terrible and does not give the show the homage it deserves in terms of the playfield layout and rules. I'm surprised that none of the previous Batman pinball machines from Data East, Sega, and Stern (Batman the Dark Knight) were very good, but at least they weren't as terrible as this new Batman 66'.
I remember a batman pinball machine maybe in1990..it was one of the first that had something like an LED lighting moving characters like the joker on a screen. I remember liking it . I dont remember seeing it in the pinball museum in vegas.(addams family is old but still a fave)
Yes the first pinball machine with a dot matrix display was Checkpoint from Data East (before that all pinballs had alpha numeric scoring displays), closely followed by the game you are talking about - Batman from Data East (http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=195).There was a bat cave video mode on that one. I like the one from Sega (Batman Forever) the best of the four batman pinballs, relatively speaking, followed by Data East Batman. The clever over-the-top villain insertions (King Tut, Shane, etc.) on the liquid crystal display (looks just like a TV screen) of Batman '66 cannot rescue the game. The Addams Family sold over 20000 units. I haven't been to the new pinball hall of fame. The last time I visited was when it was 3300 East Tropicana. I heard the new location has over 500 machines, but that the condition of many of them is shit. The Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda might be of interest to you since you are in northern California.
I was there last year(alameda). Its a flat fee to enter, and you can play as long as you want. The one on tropicana is free entry but you feed quarters.
The new location(vegas) is bigger for sure..the older location looked like it was in an old laundramat. I didnt find the machines to be poorly maintained, but that was 3 years ago. My first pinball machine was in early 60s, with a metal pinball pitched through a flap in the center and you hit a button to swing the bat, and the ball went through flaps that said out, single double triple, and if u hit it on a ramp it went to an upper level homerun. Sometimes carboard stickmen ran the bases , sometimes it was just a lighted diamond showing electronic movement around the bases.
I am not an historian like you....I just have enjoyed them over the years. batman, pinbot,addams fam,Lord of the rings.
Before it was Main Street Station it was Church Street Station. Some Florida developer, Bob Snow, sunk like 80 million into remodeling the building. A lot of expensive antiques hanging around the place. There was a Tony Roma's in the place. But the dude didn't know anything about the casino business. One of his bad moves was paying even money on blackjack. The place shut down is less than a year which I think was about 1991.
The place was still shuttered when they filmed Casino. The opening scene started with the first screen shot here and panned down to the 2nd screenshot. You can see the bottom of the doors in the first pic and see they match the doors in the 2nd pic.
Boyd bought the place and reopened it about 1996 with the name Main Street Station.
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The car bombing scene was filmed in the parking lot of Main Street Station. The building in the background is the California Club. That's the way it looked in 1994.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...XjMxQPYNTYI8M6
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Re: Casino
Ginger and Ace in a restaurant. Can you name the restaurant?
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