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City Slicker - Mayor Oscar Goodman Hotel Video duration – 4.06 minutes It’s been a riot. I love being a Mayor because I have such a good time up here. A Conversation with Hon. Oscar Goodman The Mayor of Las Vegas Hotel Video Las Vegas is a tale of two cities. It’s a very interesting place. We have about two million people who live here on a permanent basis in our valley and we yearn and thirst for the same things that people in other cities do, great culture, great medicine, great art, great sports and then we have the other city which is our entertainment capital of the world where we have the best of the shows, great entertainment, best food, best retail boutique shopping, most beautiful hotels. Some often ask, what’s next for Las Vegas? It’s only the limitation of the human mind, there’s going to be somebody who’s going to be able to figure out something different than any other place. I always envision what it would be like God forbid if there’d be a natural disaster and the archaeologists come in here in years to come and they’ll see the rubble of France, they’ll see the rubble of Rome, they’ll see even star trek and archaeologists would never be able to figure out what was here because they would be baffled. The human mind is an amazing thing and that’s what has made Las Vegas what it is. Our slogan in Las Vegas is ‘what happens here stays here’. When I was first elected, that’s ten years ago now, I was a member and now I’m the chair of Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority. We had an advertising campaign at that time which was designed to attract family folks and children and I said to myself they want to bring kids here which is a nice place for youngsters here but really that’s not what Las Vegas is all about. This is an adult play land. So we directed our advertising agency to come up with a mark or a slogan - that’s when we decided upon “What happens here stays here.” It’s been phenomenally successful; as a matter of fact, Las Vegas is the second most recognized brand in the world. Only Google is more recognized than Las Vegas. Everybody who comes even to see me has to bring a gift. I mean the public knows that I will not talk to any constituent unless he comes bearing me a gift. Wherever you look there is something a little different. I’ve got my neon sign here with my signature on it with my beautiful show girls. Where I will go…no place without… The showgirls are beautiful and they sparkle and they are like neon so that’s the image that we are trying to project. This was given to me when I was first elected. It was covered with red paint and because we have children up here all the time, I had to take my wife’s nail polish remover and take the paint off, so it doesn’t scare anybody.… This picture over here was by an artist who comes from the Caribbean. I have about, I’d say, 30 portraits by wonderful artists who have done pictures of me. Ok and this is my throne. I think I’m the only mayor who has a throne and if there is any other, I haven’t seen it. And we have all these interesting little odds and ends, just mementos of being the mayor of the greatest city and being the happiest mayor in the universe.

VOYAGE TV: LAS VEGAS
VOYAGE TV : LAS VEGAS
All that glitters Travel Video duration – 5.16 minutes. Liberace Museum Las Vegas, USA Travel Video 72 hours (Music) I am so excited to be here today... Tanya Combs Museum director, Liberace Museum Well Amy, as we enter our costume gallery, I have to tell you, you have selected a lovely necklace. And while it is just beautiful, it is just not enough to be in the spirit of Liberace here. So we need to add a little more bling, I hope that’s ok. This is the most amazing ring that I’ve ever seen in my life. I am glad that I’m fitting in now, with my bling. Yes, much better. My understanding about Liberace is that he was a child prodigy. Yes indeed. You know, he started playing piano at four years old. Played by the ear, originally, imitating what he heard his sister play. Well his parents quickly realized that this is a talent and they were able to get a well known teacher in the area, Florence Kelly to listen to him play. She agreed to teach him, but she said in no time that he had surpassed anything she could possibly teach him. He went on to have a long-running scholarship at the Wisconsin Conservatory. (Music) In the fifties, when he had his television show, he just wore a black tux like most of the musicians of the day. 1955, he opened the Riviera Hotel with what we consider to be the first costume. We have it on display, here in the museum and it is just a plain gold lame jacket. But in the 50’s, that was huge, for any musician to wear gold lame. The fans loved it. Liberace said “from then on, you know, it was history. They wanted more and I gave it to them.” He went to sequins, to fur, to feathers to rhinestones – even a costume that would light up, with a battery pack. Everything done and tried. This is the King Neptune costume and you can imagine, looking at the costume – people are always asking about the weight. So let me tell you, this costume weighs over 200 pounds. Two hundred pounds? Wow! Yeah. He only weighed about a 185, so when you look at it, you can kind of see, from all the beading and the jewels, that it would be quite heavy. He knew the fans wanted to see fantastic costumes. This is another fun costume. This particular one was worn for the hundredth anniversary of the statue of Liberty – the red white blue hot pant is a favorite with all of our guests. You know, he wanted to wow the audience, but he wanted to be dressed (in) you know, something that’d celebrate the hundredth anniversary. Each costume has a different theme to it. And, you know, I think they love the fact that Liberace, he wasn’t afraid to embarrass himself to make people laugh, to have a good time. They just love all of these costumes. This and all, how did this come to be? Always the showman, Liberace soon incorporated cars into his act. You know, everything matched. The pianos matched the car, the costumes matched the car; I mean he was the ultimate showman. It was all done in fun, it was a spectacular thing to see Liberace driven out on stage by a chauffeur, stepping out of this fabulous car, in a fabulous costume, you know what fun the entire show was. This is our piano gallery. This is a real favorite, with anyone who is musical, obviously. But you know, Liberace, when he was alive, we know that he has as many as 39 pianos. And what’s special about this gallery is that it shows the evolution of the piano. You get so caught up in this fanfare surrounding Liberace that you forget that he is actually a classically trained musician. That’s exactly right. And you know, he realized early on that only a few people out there would really like just classical music. So the first thing he did is, he combined popular music with classical. And guess what? He got in lot of people who probably would never hear classical music, to listen. Then he added a little bit of the showman to it you know... And then he said, “Look, I can put on this show that everyone is going to have fun.”

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