That's right, taxpayers can participate in building a monument to Bugsy Segal.
The era when Bugsy Siegel - not Steve Wynn - ran the show at the most fabulous hotels in town.
Director Sir Alan Parker, whose works include The Commitments and Bugsy Malone, was honoured with a British Academy Fellowship - the highest accolade the Academy can bestow.
She found international fame in 1976 for her Oscar-nominated performance as teenage prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver, and roles as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone and the lead in Freaky Friday.
Sixty years after the city had been in the control of Al Capone, Bugsy Malone et al, a string of films were released that recreated the cat-and-mouse chase between the police and gangsters.
This opulent period gangster movie, written by James Toback and directed by Barry Levinson, is largely a showcase for the old-fashioned star magnetism of Warren Beatty, who plays the legendary Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel.
Unlike the mafia bosses of the thirties, such as Bugsy Siegel, who helped turn Vegas into a gaming boomtown, Hsieh is attempting to turn Vegas into a Tier II technology startup destination, like Boulder, CO.
"He was a basket case and Kenny was concerned he would embarrass himself on stage, or worse yet -- get hurt, " production director John "Bugsy" Houghdahl wrote to AEG Live top execs Randy Phillips and Paul Gongaware.
"It was when someone talked to me about Bugsy Malone that the idea lit up in my head, " he said, with a reference to Alan Parker's 1976 musical gangster film which boasted a cast of child actors.
She would follow such iconic childhood turns in films like Taxi Driver, Freaky Friday, and Bugsy Malone with adult performances in hit movies like The Accused (for which she won an Oscar) and Silence of the Lambs (for which she won another Oscar).
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