Stardust memories. (changes in Las Vegas, Nevada)

Artforum International | January 1, 1996| | Copyright

Is it just a coincidence that Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, Mike Figgis' Leaving Las Vegas, and Martin Scorsese's Casino, three would-be down-and-dirty 1995 Hollywood tributes to lost Vegas, all went into production at more or less the moment when, led by the refurbished MGM Grand Hotel, America's fastest-growing metropolis began promoting itself as the new Orlando? Lost Vegas became Vegasland, a wholesome middle-American theme-park resort or, as Nick Tosches calls it in his intro to the recently published, elegiac anthology Literary Las Vegas, "a corporate-run nightmare draped ...

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