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2013 - Issue 3 - May/June

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fabulous years Clint Holmes, seen here at the Smith Center's Cabaret Jazz, is idolized by local entertainers. that's entertainment WE WERE A NEW RAT PACK OF VEGAS ENTERTAINERS—UNTIL OUR PEERS BECAME TOO FAMOUS FOR THE HANG. BY CLINT HOLMES | AS TOLD TO JOHN KATSILOMETES T en years ago felt like the dawn of another golden era of entertainers in Las Vegas, at least in terms of the Rat Pack time. There was a group of us: Danny Gans, Lance Burton, the Scintas, Mac King, Gordie Brown, Bob Anderson, and Earl Turner, with Wayne Newton certainly at the top of the food chain. I am even thinking in terms of Siegfried & Roy. In that period, we would get together once a month to meet and tell lies. We would sit at Ruth's Chris Steak House until 1 in the morning and talk. It was a new kind of Rat Pack of individual entertainers. 132 I got all of this support when I went to Harrah's in 2000. Nobody knew me here, certainly not as a headliner. I started at Golden Nugget, and they put me on cab tops and billboards, and we started to build a little recognition. They gave me time to grow. In the beginning, Harrah's executive Gary Loveman would sit in the back of the room on a slow night and he would say to me, "I don't want you to worry. You're giving us the show we want. Now it's up to us to get the room full." It took a lot of pressure off. Six or eight months into it, things started to really happen as the show built momentum. But you don't get that kind of support now, I don't think. Frankie Moreno is the only one I really know right now— and I may be missing somebody—who is really being supported as a "newcomer" by the hotel. He's building his reputation, like Gans did and like I did. This town is a flow of people who come in and then leave. So you are famous for that period of time, unless you are famous forever—unless you're Donny and Marie. They are famous because they're famous; Celine Dion is famous because she is famous. People coming in from Des Moines will know who Donny and Marie are, and the guy coming in from England knows VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 128-137_V_Feat_Anniversary_MAY/JUNE_13.indd 132 4/23/13 2:59 PM

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