For a little while longer, the hotel will continue to be marketed as a desert oasis, and its iconic volcano will still erupt. In December 2021, Hard Rock International agreed to pay MGM a little over $1 billion for the right to operate the Mirage, including a three-year license to the name. Now it’s about to reach its sad, instructive conclusion, the way so many modern fables end: with a corporate takeover. It can serve as a testament to the power of lies, including the ones we tell ourselves, or a cautionary tale about fiction’s limits, especially when fact takes the form of a fed-up tiger. Depending on when you enter and exit their story, it’s either triumphant or tragic, surprising or inevitable.
They were without question the most famous German magicians performing with a large collection of apex predators. Siegfried & Roy photographed at their residence in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1991 (Mark Seliger / AUGUST)Īt the peak of their particular and possibly extinct brand of celebrity, Siegfried & Roy were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini.
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