Saturday, November 17, 2012

This Is Not The Real Las Vegas

From the Las Vegas Sun: Bravo is making its first attempt at developing a reality TV show in VegasVille and is pretty much asking any local resident with a pulse to apply.
“Project Vegas,” the working title of a heretofore mysterious reality TV series set in Las Vegas, is looking for the following (this information is from a flier trumpeting the series): “Showgirls, club promoters, moguls, models, restaurateurs, drag queens, professional gamblers, VIP service workers and everything in between.”
To apply, send two recent photos and contact information with a phone number ASAP to projectvegascasting@gmail.com.
No one, it seems, is off limits, and if you happen to be a mogul who models as a drag queen, Christmas might come early.
The flier also states, “We are scouting Vegas for the most beautiful, confident heartthrobs, heroes and villains to star in their own reality series. … It’s not only about you. We want your friends, family and frenemies, too!”  http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/kats-report/2012/nov/16/bravo-unleashing-project-vegas-and-odds-are-you-ar/
Once again, a TV show wants to portray Las Vegas as a bunch of bimbos, gigolos, starlets, gamblers, show people and show girls.
Every time you see the TV show, Las Vegas Strip, all you see  are women dressing as sluts and men being drunk while they walk up and down the Las Vegas Strip.  Well, I haven't been to the Strip for about a year, but the times I do go, I haven't seen very many of these characters waddling up and down the Strip or Fremont St.  I've probably seen more street preachers on the Strip than sluts and prostitutes. 
And then if you go 4 blocks east or west off the Strip and Fremont St., you get into real Las Vegas.  You go into the neighborhoods where our neighbors live.  The people who work on the Strip, teach school, work as security guards, cops and firefighters, stock brokers, lawyers and everybody else that a big city has.  Heck, we even have a pig farm and several horse farms in the Las Vegas area.
So, when some TV producer goes out and asks for “Showgirls, club promoters, moguls, models, restaurateurs, drag queens, professional gamblers, VIP service workers" you are talking about .01% of the Las Vegas Valley's population.

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