Mel Brooks twice filled Encore Theater on June 30-July 1. He had just turned 91 when he made his Strip debut.
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The sign company Yesco actually owns the Hard Rock Cafe sign, in an agreement with Hard Rock Cafe’s parent company dating to the restaurant’s opening in 1990.
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Barry Manilow headlined the Las Vegas Hilton and Paris Las Vegas from 2004-2012.
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The real tug in “Circus 1903” is what Willy Whipsnade calls “the root of the circus.”
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