Bunnies, booze and blackjack
George Maloof owner of the Palms Casino Resort, poses with
blackjack dealers at the new Playboy Club in Las Vegas.
Alexandria Sage
October 9, 2006
With bunnies, booze and blackjack, the first Playboy Club in nearly two decades opened in Las Vegas last night with high hopes that its time-tested combination of sex and celebrity will attract a new generation of high rollers.
With a distinctly vintage feel, Playboy bunnies wearing the distinctive ears and cottontail delivered drinks and dealt cards to a mostly male crowd at the Palms Casino Resort.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner surrounded himself with a bevy of blondes - and one brunette - in a red corner booth while pulsating music filled the smoky room.
"There's a new generation ready to come out and play," Hefner told Reuters before the party, saying the Playboy brand was just as relevant today as it was when he started the men's magazine in 1953.
"Playboy has always stood for something - a social, sexual and political agenda that has real meaning," the 80-year-old Hefner said.
Almost half a century has passed since Hefner opened his first club in Chicago in 1960 and helped usher in the sexual revolution, while the Playboy bunny and the Playboy centrefold skyrocketed to American icon status.
...more - http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/bunnies-booze-and-blackjack/2006/10/09/1160246050439.html
George Maloof owner of the Palms Casino Resort, poses with
blackjack dealers at the new Playboy Club in Las Vegas.
Alexandria Sage
October 9, 2006
With bunnies, booze and blackjack, the first Playboy Club in nearly two decades opened in Las Vegas last night with high hopes that its time-tested combination of sex and celebrity will attract a new generation of high rollers.
With a distinctly vintage feel, Playboy bunnies wearing the distinctive ears and cottontail delivered drinks and dealt cards to a mostly male crowd at the Palms Casino Resort.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner surrounded himself with a bevy of blondes - and one brunette - in a red corner booth while pulsating music filled the smoky room.
"There's a new generation ready to come out and play," Hefner told Reuters before the party, saying the Playboy brand was just as relevant today as it was when he started the men's magazine in 1953.
"Playboy has always stood for something - a social, sexual and political agenda that has real meaning," the 80-year-old Hefner said.
Almost half a century has passed since Hefner opened his first club in Chicago in 1960 and helped usher in the sexual revolution, while the Playboy bunny and the Playboy centrefold skyrocketed to American icon status.
...more - http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/bunnies-booze-and-blackjack/2006/10/09/1160246050439.html
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