The Sin City 'Experience'
November 13, 2005
BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic
Before I moved from Las Vegas to Chicago this summer, I had come to realize Vegas is everything people say it is. Gambleaholic tourists. HIV-positive prostitutes. People jumping off parking garages to their deaths.
Wait, I'm not finished.
Strippers doing things in back rooms. Gatsby-esque, million-dollar parties. Drinking, dancing and vast amounts of sexual hookups.
Vegas is a great place where terrible things happen. Life in this Disneyland for adults can be exceedingly fun, as long as you're not an addict of any kind. And as schmaltzy as this may sound, locals -- other than the occasional gang-bangers -- are genuinely kind (except when they're criticizing someone's out-of-date designer clothes).
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November 13, 2005
BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic
Before I moved from Las Vegas to Chicago this summer, I had come to realize Vegas is everything people say it is. Gambleaholic tourists. HIV-positive prostitutes. People jumping off parking garages to their deaths.
Wait, I'm not finished.
Strippers doing things in back rooms. Gatsby-esque, million-dollar parties. Drinking, dancing and vast amounts of sexual hookups.
Vegas is a great place where terrible things happen. Life in this Disneyland for adults can be exceedingly fun, as long as you're not an addict of any kind. And as schmaltzy as this may sound, locals -- other than the occasional gang-bangers -- are genuinely kind (except when they're criticizing someone's out-of-date designer clothes).
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