What is your favorite? ..........................

[Steve]

This week's Topic Of The Week is:


What is your favorite TV Show, Movie, Book and Special on Las Vegas?

[gsmith]

Three must-read books-- these are great--

Whale Hunt In the Desert by Deke Castleman, Dice Angel by Brian Rouff & Money Shot also by Brian Rouff.

[nrohgof]

I like the Travel Channel's info shows

[shamrock77]

TV - Dan Tanner (Robert Urich)

book - Dice Angel (Brian Ruff)

movie - Vegas Vacation (Chevy Chase)

[BobWerner]

Movie: Viva Las Vegas (what else?)
Book? Haven't really read a good one on Vegas.
Show? Las Vegas - best show on TV!

[Rodman7]

I like the tv show Vegas(most of the time). Some episodes are stupid. Book favorites are usually Comp City, Frugal Gambing etc. Don't have any favorite movies. Watch re-runs on the travel channel about Vegas. Never get tired of the same old stuff. Time to upgrade their programs.:D

[tryon4]

Movie, Original Oceans 11
TV, Vegas Week on Travel Channel
Book, If you put all the columns together

[BOBNDEE]

TV show
CSI
Book
Brian Rouff's Dice Angel
Movie
Casino
;)

[mishaysdad]

For books: Las Vegas for Dummies

TV show: CSI and then Las Vegas

Movie: The Original Oceans 11

[1940GMC]

Has to be the Vegas shows on the Travel Channel. They're the best. Also, love the Samantha Brown travel show on Mandalay Bay.....that's our hotel!!!!

[Emminence]

My favourite Las Vegas media piece is the old A&E TV "Jewel in the Desert." I don't think it's available any more, and it is terribly dated, but I still watch it before every trip.

David in Nova Scotia

[Souette]

Movie: Viva Las Vegas- I love looking at the "on-location" scenes. Seeing Vegas as it was and trying to guess where all the new stuff is in relation to what I'm viewing.

Book: Never read one on Vegas...but I'm taking notes!

Special: Travel Channel specials esp the ones about individuals/gangs trying to pull a fast one on the casinos. Love the re-enactments.

TV-don't watch weekly series.

[vegasdough]

VEGA$ VACATION. I watch it the night before I leave for every trip.

[steeleaway]

TV Show-CSI

Books-never read any about Vegas

Movie,-Vegas Vacation and the movie with Courtney Cox and her hubby
and a few other stars in it about robbing a casino, can't remember the name of it and the new Oceans 11.

Specials-I also enjoy any of the Travel Channel shows about Vegas and any of the shows about Howard Hughes the Rat Pack and the old Vegas.

[leighw55]

We love CSI, but also like the show called Las Vegas, and the shows about Vegas on the travel channel.

[artie512]

My favroite TV show about or around Vegas was "Crime Story"

[Dshort2727]

Tv show - CSI

Book - Void Moon Michael Connelly

Movie - Swingers

[Kaystr1]

Book ???
Movie- Vegas Vacation, Casino
TV-CSI-Las Vegas

I am adding a magazine- Strictly Slots

[King_Ozzy]

My favorites

TV Show - CSI Las Vegas
Movie NL Vegas Vacation
Book - Super Casino
Special on Las Vegas? Everything

[GILUV2Gamble]

The Movies have to be in no paticular order:
Bugsy (Viva old Las Vegas)
original Oceans 11
Casino
Las Vegas Vacation

This is from my bookstore:
Unoffical Guide to Las Vegas 1989 :)
It's sooo much fun to read because there's been sooo many changes in the area since then.

Fly on the Wall: Recollections of Las Vegas' Good Old, Bad Old Days

When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Murder, Mayhem and Money

The shows have to be:
Las Vegas........ Exspecially when you go to Vegas and ask the Dealers at the craps table where the Monticello Casino is. I love the looks...
Las Vegas CSI
and of coarse The Travel Channel with ALL the shows on Las Vegas

[dmfam]

T.V. show- - - Las Vegas
Movie - - Vegas Vacation. That always reminds me of Vegas. LOL

[danadoo]

Favorite TV Show - VEGAS (Robert Urich, Tony Curtis, Judy Landers, etc.)

Movie - Oceans Eleven (the Rat Pack one, although I liked the new one too)

Book - The Green Felt Jungle by Ovid DeMaris

Special on Las Vegas - Anything shown on the Travel Channel about Las Vegas

Special Honorable Mention to ESPN for making watching poker tournaments interesting (despite Norman Chad). Remember when it was worse than watching paint dry???

[sean]

This week's Topic Of The Week is:


What is your favorite TV Show, Movie, Book and Special on Las Vegas?

Favoriite TV Show is American Casino. Las Vegas runs a very close second.

Favorite movie: That is a tough one. You have Diamonds Are Forever, Vegas Vacation, Oceans 11, But I would have to say Viva Las Vegas.

Favorite Book: Tie Casino (on the Stardust skim) and Super Casino (on the Mandalay Corporaation)

Special: A&E had a great special on the History of Vegas about 10 years ago. Interviews with everyone from Steve Wynn to Bob Stupek to Wayne Newton

[iam4nd]

Tv Show---The old "Crime Story" with Dennis Farina (late 1980's).

Book (fiction)---Dice Angel by Brian Ruoff.
Book (non-fiction)---The Frugal Gambler by Jean Scott.

Movie---Fools Rush In---Loved the music, watched it many times.

Special---No particular one but do like all the L.V. magician specials.

[Boston_Bill]

Best TV Show: Vega$ starring the late Robert Urich, it's what got me hooked on Las Vegas.

Best movie : Casino (honorable mention Leaving Las Vegas)

[Boston_Bill]

Tv show - CSI

Book - Void Moon Michael Connelly

Movie - Swingers

Good choice on Swingers even if it only had a few scenes early in the movie. I love that movie though

[PinkFloydActuary]

TV Show - most of the Travel Channel Overviews (Cheaters Beware, Do's and Don'ts)

Book - American Roulette. Claims to be fact, even if it's fiction, I really liked this one a lot.

Movie - I'll go with Casino.

TV Movie - How about The Night Stalker?

[kokopelli]

Super casino,and Busting Vegas.:cool:

[Bama]

TV Show- "Crime Story"
Book- "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" By the late, great Hunter S Thompson
Movie- A tie between "Diamonds are Forever" and "The Night Stalker" ( thanks for reminding me about it PinkFloydActuary) :p
TV Special- Any Vegas special on the Travel Channel

[magicfish]

Got to be Honeymoon in Vegas for the movie - never get tired of seeing the flying Elvises - "Utah chapter" !!

and, I love the book 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas by Andres Martinez - this man used a $50,000 publishing advance for this book, and spent an entire month on the Strip, staying only a few days at any given hotel/casino, sampling the high-stakes tables and games at every big name casino in Vegas. It's a wild up and down (literally) ride, made more enjoyable because of his easy writing style and his "regular guy" attitude - he had never experienced this kind of life before! It's a great book for all Vegas lovers, especially the low roller types like me!!! Read it, you won't be sorry!!!

[vu-doo]

movies- casino , is a great film about the old Vegas. Vegas vacation, swingers

TV- i love "VEGAS" i remember watching it when i was a kid and loving las Vegas even though i had never been there.

books-The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King,

and a very old version of The unofficial guide to Las Vegas. i think it is from 1995.


and is there anyone on this board who doesn't love the A&E and Travel channel specials.

[vu-doo]

Special Honorable Mention to ESPN for making watching poker tournaments interesting (despite Norman Chad). Remember when it was worse than watching paint dry???

man you are so right. i have played poker long before it was so popular on TV. and i used to watch the WSOP on ESPN and it was very bad.

despite norman chad it has gotten a lot better.

[Janine926]

Show: Las Vegas on tv and of course the ones on the Travel Channel
Movie: The Cooler, Vegas Vacation and Leaving Las Vegas (depressing though)
Book: never read one about Vegas, just articles on the internet

[artie]

I am hooked on Las Vegas with James Caan and Nikki Cox - can't get enough. I enjoy picking out inconsistencies whenever anyone drives anywhere - first they pass the Luxor going South, then Circus Circus is on the left, and then you see Paris and Bellagio. Vega$ with Dan Tanna was also a really cool show back in the late 70's, shot onsite at the old Desert Inn.

My favorite movies include those that depict older scenes from Vegas - like the stuff that is gone, or movies that "just end up there" like ConAir, etc.

I've yet to see a book worth reading regarding the "true history" of Vegas.

[polar]

Movie:
Oceans 11(remake)

TV Show:
CSI

Books:
24/7;Living it Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas(1999)

Running Scared:The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King..Steve Wynn(2001)

[badlucknanc]

T.V. show: Crime Story - a classic w. great Vegas views, including the long gone Atomic Lounge!:cool:

Movies: Most likely Viva Las Vegas,but how about Jinxed w. Bette Midler and Ken Wahl? Actually, any Vegas movie - new or old - is a good movie. :D
It's hard to beat Vegas for panoramic movie shots!

Book - Haven't read many of the previously mentioned, tho I would like to. Mostly travel guides....How about Palace,by Paul Erdman-interesting fictional work about Vegas.

How about fav Vegas web site? This one, of course!!!!!

[vegasbabe]

the one that I'm still trying to finish! I loved both of Brian's books as well!

[ASTIDIXIE]

:D HANDS DOWN............CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION!!!!
I am totally addicted to it! I love the program and it is so cool when they show the shots of the strip etc. and I can point out all the places and name them! Love Gil & Sarah and the rest of the crew on there....it is a great show!

[judyqu]

This week's Topic Of The Week is:


What is your favorite TV Show, Movie, Book and Special on Las Vegas?

Movie: Casino and Oceans 11 (remake)
TV: CSI and "Tilt" produced a few years ago by ESPN
Book: Void Moon by Michael Connelly
Special: Anything about Las Vegas on the Travel Channel

[klink13]

Vegas tv show, travel channel when they have the things to do in Las Vegas or the one about the cheaters.

[deecbell]

tv program : las vegas though sadly, james caan and nicki cox will not be returning next season plus anything on the travel channel about vegas including all the re-runs (let's get some new ones, guys)

book: haven't read a book on vegas just magazines

movie: love Casino watched it over and over Sharon Stone was so good in it

and like most, favorite website: this one of course!!!

[Bennett2Winit]

Movie: Vegas Vacation, Casino

T. V. Show: Vegas, CSI and the Travel Channel various Vegas topics.

[wolfman1953]

TV Show = CSI
Movie = Oceans 11 (original) and Top of the World (it helps that we were there when they filmed scaling Hoover Dam)
Book = Hiking Las Vegas
Special = Equator Channel has one made by Brits. It is a different take and has some funny misconceptions (but then a lot of people have misconceptions about Vegas)

V -34 days, 11 hours, 13 minutes - but who's counting

[vpugno@aol.com]

The best TV shows are: CSI, Las Vegas & The Travel Channel, also, vegas with Robert Urich. Need to see some re-runs.
The Movie: Viva Las Vegas.
Books- Haven't read any lately.

[dreamcatcheril]

Movie.. Casino... Remember late in the movie when the attorney gets wacked at (the Purple Hotel in Lincolnwood) When our 4some got to the first tee the following Saturday..
the starter said to us " I wonder if he will be making his regular 10:30 tee time"

Book... "Basic Black jack stratagy" in paper back . It cost $1.00 when I first bought it. Now it's up about $6.00

[PatSprouseYo]

Movie: Original and New Oceans 11 - tied

Book: Positively 5th St - McManus (really interesting)

TV Show: Las Vegas

[BOBNDEE]

TV Show = CSI
Movie = Oceans 11 (original) and Top of the World (it helps that we were there when they filmed scaling Hoover Dam)
Book = Hiking Las Vegas
Special = Equator Channel has one made by Brits. It is a different take and has some funny misconceptions (but then a lot of people have misconceptions about Vegas)

V -34 days, 11 hours, 13 minutes - but who's counting

Good for you, we have 95 days 17 hours and 59 min
bobndee:D

[cindyinnj]

Movie....Vegas Vacation (I know, it's corny but hey....I like it...:D ), Ocean's Eleven, & Casino

TV...CSI, Las Vegas, and the Travel Channel Vegas info shows

Book...Haven't read a book about Vegas...yet!

[talanhart]

Vegas Vacation!

The best Vegas Movie ever!

[irelandvegas]

Show? CSI , took us a while to warm up to it, started watching Miami, but Vegas wins now

Book? Gosh no or few votes for fear and loathing in las vegas. Knew Hunter S Thompson when i lived in aspen, so ill toss him a vote

Movie? Remake of Oceans Eleven. Like the origional, but new one appeals to our visits and memories.

[parisbill]

Sad ending but a new beginning



http://www.reviewjournal.com/media/video/stardustdemo.html

[luvmesumvegas]

Movie: VEGAS VACATION. "I won, I won"
Book: AMERICAN CASINO GUIDE
TV Show: CSI

[NEWMAN235]

Tv Show(s): Csi Las Vegas

Las Vegas

Book: The Casino Guide

Movie: Leaving Las Vegas And Vegas Vacation

Special: Travel Channel Or Food Network About Vegas

[starvegasgirl]

Movie: Vegas Vacation - Of course!!! and Ocean's 11 (remake)

Book: Haven't read any books about Vegas but I have a great coffee table book with old vs. new pictures. Puts things into perspective of what used to be.

TV: Las Vegas - Josh Duhamel is YUMMY! and anything on the Travel Channel about Vegas.

141 days 12 hours 41 minutes and counting.......

[JMVegas5866]

TV show: I don't really watch much TV. Video's of Vegas on YouTube are always exciting to watch though :)

Book: "You've Got Heat" - The Vegas Card Counting Adventures of LV Pro.

Movie: Rainman (1988)

Special: American Experience - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (PBS)

[brister21]

TV show - CSI
Movie - The Cooler and Vegas Vacation (hilarious!!!)

[ChicChas]

BOOK: Closest to a book I've read on Vegas are the long (but very welcome) trip reports on ELV.

MOVIE: #1) "Casino", #2) Original "Ocean's 11"

I bought a new DVD the other day I haven't watched yet, though. "The Cooler"

TV: #1) "CSI", #2) My home videos I take when there

SPECIAL: The PBS documentary on the history of Vegas from about a year ago. Wish they'd repeat it. I might have to buy it.

[Deb]

TV
A&E mini-series,"Gamble In the Desert"; Food/Travel programs...although not many right now. Sinatra Live at CP(1978) on PBS..what a show he did!!
Almost anything, really, except poker, well, except I did watch Rob and Amber...guess I am the only one, LOL!

Books
Trunk Music, and Dice Angel was fun as I was part of a sort of mini book group! But my fav, not really book is on the way into LV when we stop in Baker for leg stretch and grab a handful of freebie mags....gets the heart pumping and ready to have a blast when we ge in!:D

[mjjgambler]

I can watch anything that revolves around Vegas. But I do have a soft spot for the new Oceans 11 - brilliant! Still waiting to see the original.

I love all the critiques of the annual Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas.

I hunt for any LV special on the Travel Channel. Aren't we due for another Vegas Week yet? The current show "Las Vegas" is worth watching just to hear Elvis sing "A Little Less Conversation" while they show awesome Strip shots.

Would looooove to see the old Robert Urich Vegas series with the Sands, Desert Inn, the Mint, etc!! Can we start a TV Land petition?

[jolo777]

TV shows: CSI and Vegas
Movies: Casino and The Cooler
Books: Dice Angel and Of Rats and Men by John Smith
about "Mayor Oscar Goodman's life from Mob Mouthpiece to
Mayor of Las Vegas.
TV Special: anything about Vegas or gambling, even Rob and Amber (see Deb, there's 2 of us. LOL)

[paramont_jan]

Favorite Movie: "Meet Me in Las Vegas" (1956) with Cyd Charisse - she plays a ballerina, and there is a scene where she gets drunk and jumps up onto the stage to join the showgirls!

Favorite TV show re: Vegas: "The Twilight Zone" episode called The Fever (1960) where a self-righteous man gets hooked on gambling when a slot machine literally calls to him!


... and, of course, Celebrity Poker Showdown series filmed at the Palms Casino

[flamingofun]

Friday night tv show Las Vegas! it's unreal~~ but so is Vegas!

[vegasgirl14]

TV Show: CSI, thank God that we have it in our programme in Germany.
Books: I have about 30 books about Las Vegas and collect them. German books and English books, I buy them in the USA or order them via Internet. There is nothing new in this books, but I love reading them and dreaming of Vegas.
Movies: Honeymoon in Vegas and Vegas Vacation (I have the DVD of both movies).
Special: Of course reading as often as I can this forum and every week the Newsletter. Thanks Steve!!

[twotree100]

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[twotree100]

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[Nancy from Indiana]

tv show - Las Vegas, Vega$ was my original favorite.
movies - the original & remake of Oceans 11, Vegas Vacation,
Going in Style with George Burns & Art Carney - they go to Vegas &
stay at the Aladdin & make a killing at the craps table
book - Running Scared, bio of Steve Wynn. I bought it years ago at
the Fashion Show Mall.
specials - Las Vegas Week, if it ever comes back

[MissCyn]

TV Show: Casino Diaries on Discovery Times and Las Vegas on NBC.



Movie: Vegas Vacation (Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo) and Honeymoon in Vegas (Nicolas Cage, Sara Jessica Parker, and James Caan).


Book: 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas by Andres Martinez - Reads like a 352 page trip report!



Special: Vegas Do's and Don'ts on the Travel Chanel and Getting Rich in Las Vegas also on the Travel Chanel.

[polar]

MissCyn and Nancy..those were my favorite books also!
I had forgotten them until this topic was posted..I'm reading them over now.
They should get me through till my next trip.LOL,Polar

[Nancy from Indiana]

Hi polar -cool - I'm going to get the book that MissCyn recommended.

[MissCyn]

You guys will love it! It is a little outdated now because things change so much in Vegas, but it is still a great read!:D

[HeyNow]

Book - Super Casino, good book focusing on owners of Circus Circus/Mandalay group.

Movie - tie: Vegas Vacation/Swingers/Very Bad Things

Special - Breaking Vegas about the MIT students who played Team Blackjack or the Secret History of Las Vegas (I think that was the name) is good too.

TV Show: CSI (Honorable Mention goes to King of Cars)

[smmoo]

Favorite books about Vegas are Definately the 15 or so Midnight Louie mysteries written by Carol Nelson Douglas about a young PR lady who lives and works in Vegas. Can't wait for her to write another.

[iam4nd]

Hi Smmoo,

Cheryl reads most of the Midnight Louie novels and really enjoys them. I've read a few and they have been pretty good. We are cat people (have three) so that adds some interest.;)

[gina]

:D MY FAVE TV SHOW HAS TO CSI,FAVE MOVIE HAS TO BE OCEANS 11 AND CASINO.AND MY BOOK HAS TO BE THE CASINO GUIDE.:D

[Irishsis]

Movie(s) I can't deside between 3 Casino, Vegas Vacation and Honeymoon in Vegas.....gotta love flying Elvis's

TV American Casino

Maureen

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[Jacqui, Duskette8]

Favourite books : (a) Fact - Las Vegas vs The Mob by Denny Griffin; and (b) fiction - Divas Las Vegas by Belinda Jones (chick novel!)

Favourite movies : (a) Viva Las Vegas; (b) Vegas Vacation; and (c) Ocean's 11

Favourite TV shows: (a) CSI; and (b) Las Vegas

[mbjts]

Glad to see that so many others have selected "Vegas Vacation" as their favorite Vegas movie! It cracks me up each and every time I see it. It's such a silly film, but it projects the Vegas feeling so well.:cool:

"Rain Man" too.

I also enjoy all the A&E and Travel Channel shows.

[marmirdc]

TV: CSI:Las Vegas

Movie: Viva Las Vegas

Book: Vegas for Dummies

[stevevarro]

Movies: To many to list, but I love the Vegas scenes in Rainman

Books: Top Ten: Las Vegas - a great travel guide / the 10 best of everything
1,000 Naked Truths by Norm Clark Hot Spots and cool stuff!

TV: Las Vegas (until they moved to Friday night, now I hardly get to see it.
The specials on the Travel Channel.

Web Sites: Everything Las Vagas

[Steve]

This week's Topic Of The Week is:


What is your favorite TV Show, Movie, Book and Special on Las Vegas?

My favorite TV show is VEGAS
My favorite movie is Vegas Vacation and I know it is basically awful.
Favorite Book is Dice Angel, the only book I read in the last 30 years :eek:
(We also circulated a copy of this book to about 20 members throughout the USA. After they read it, they signed it and I sent it to the author Brian Rouff and it is one of his favrorite things in his personal collection.)
My favorite specials are the show that show all the cheaters getting caught.


Steve

[tugboat]

MY FAVORITE TV SHOW: LAS VEGAS:p
MY FAVORITE BOOK: JUST THE VEGAS MAGAZINES I HAVN'T READ ANY BOOKS
MY FAVORITE TV SPECIALS: ANY THING VEGAS ON THE TRAVEL CHANNEL
MY FAVORITE MOVIE: VIVA LAS VEGAS:o

[145tech]

This week's Topic Of The Week is:


What is your favorite TV Show, Movie, Book and Special on Las Vegas?

By far, the movie which made me want to go to Vegas more than any other was:

Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond)

Came out in 1970 or 1971, last official Bond movie with Sean Connery.

Love the scenes of Vegas, especially the downtown car-chase scene, where you can see the Plaza under construction in the background.

Most of the story revolves around a reclusive millionaire at the "Whyte House" which is really the LV Hilton, although the scenes where Bond rides on top of the elevator to get to the top are filmed at the Landmark.

Great Vegas movie, the best!

Pete
Indy

[LHEFFE]

How can anyone include CSI??? Most of the episodes are just crime drama and never mention or show Las Vegas, except of course the wide shot at the opening. When they visit a neighborhood, it's so obviously not anywhere near a desert.
The BEST Vegas TV show ever is VEGA$ with the greatly missed Robert Urich.

[hipster818]

Movie: Vegas Vacation
TV: Crime Story (Season Two), A&E Real Las Vegas, Travel Channel LV Week.
Book: Las Vegas Then and Now

[cjm051]

Movie : Oceans 11

TV Show : Las Vegas

Book: Michael Konic "How I won Millions from Las Vegas Sportsbook:) :)