Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started a big part of my career in Vegas.
Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.
My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we'd come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage.
I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.
I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.
When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
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