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L.A. TIMES: ‘VEGAS’ NOT PERFECT ‘BUT HAS GOOD PROSPECTS’

The Midcentury Effect that rippled outward from "Mad Men" and produced "Pan Am," "The Playboy Club" and "Magic City" has now tossed "Vegas" upon our shores. Premiering Tuesday on CBS, it is set in 1960 in the City sometimes called Sin, when men were men and women were showgirls and Las Vegas was still an expression — or an impression, perhaps — of the Wild West and not the fantastical, international theme park it has since become.

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