Caesars Palace
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Jones
- In Tom Jones
…gigs with large hotels like Caesars Palace and the Flamingo. It was during those years in Vegas that his female fans began throwing their underwear onto the stage, which gave him a philandering ladies’-man reputation that was hard to shake. (He was, however, married to his wife until she died…
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Knievel
- In Evel Knievel
…jump over the fountains at Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, in which he botched the landing and fractured his skull; he was comatose for a month afterward. Other well-publicized stunts included jumping over some 50 cars at the Los Angeles Coliseum (1973), a failed attempt to soar over the…
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Las Vegas
- In Las Vegas: Cultural life
…model at the time was Caesars Palace, an oval architectural marvel containing numerous large fountains and thousands of tons of imported Mediterranean marble; its spectacular qualities were diminished somewhat by the later addition next door of a multistory shopping mall.
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Twain
- In Shania Twain: Hiatus, Las Vegas residencies, and later career
…Still the One (2012–14) at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. In 2017 Twain released the chart-topping Now, her first studio album in 15 years. She launched another Las Vegas residency, Let’s Go!, in 2019, though the show was put on hold in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic; it resumed…
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