Vegas (tv show)

Looks like the CBS "Vegas" is a go. Dennis Quaid as a sherrif in Vegas in early 60's I think.

youtube preview

Hard to tell if this will make it, or even last a season.

Doesn't surprise me. The 60's is hot right now, with the
success of Madmen and the nostalgia for a simpler time.
Can anybody alive now honestly say they didn't love
the 60's?

Quote: EvenBob

Can anybody alive now honestly say they didn't love
the 60's?

There's probably a few buried in the desert outside Vegas. Yeah, but technically, not alive, so they don't count.

It was the cars. People look at cars from the 50's as
classics now, but they were classics in the late 60's already.
Getting ahold of a 55 Chevy or 57 Chevy and dropping a
short block 350 in it was the bomb. Add 4 on the floor
and it was screaming fast. And we were in awe of
the 60's muscle cars, it was like living in a dream world.
Driving was never as much fun before or since.

Quote: rxwine

Looks like the CBS "Vegas" is a go. Dennis Quaid as a sherrif in Vegas in early 60's I think.

So now we've had:

Vega$ with Robert Urich
Las Vegas with James Caan
Vegas with Dennis Quaid

Did I miss any series?

Speaking of cars, that was a nice '57 T-bird that Robert Urich's character Dan Tanna drove in Vega$.

Quote: rxwine

Looks like the CBS "Vegas" is a go. Dennis Quaid as a sherrif in Vegas in early 60's I think.

youtube preview

Hard to tell if this will make it, or even last a season.

I just watched the preview. It looks
like the show has a lot of potential
to me.

Between Dennis Quaid and
Michael Chiklis, I think this could
be critically acclaimed, if not a huge
hit.

Quote: pacomartin

Did I miss any series?

The original CSI, set in Vegas.

Unless you meant series with the name "Vegas" in the title.

If not, also the ill-fated "The Defenders" about defense lawyers in Vegas.

Looks very good with a good cast. Might be the only network show besides "Shark Tank" that I will actually watch.

For discussion, they are not disguising Ralph Lamb in name. IIRC, Lamb is the Sheriff in question when Sam "Ace" Rothstein tells Nicky Santoro, "this sheriff is a real cowboy!" in the early part of "Casino." So does anyone else think the Savino charachter is going to be some disguised Rosenthal/Spilotro composite?

Looks very good with a good cast. Might be the only network show besides "Shark Tank" that I will actually watch.

For discussion, they are not disguising Ralph Lamb in name. IIRC, Lamb is the Sheriff in question when Sam "Ace" Rothstein tells Nicky Santoro, "this sheriff is a real cowboy!" in the early part of "Casino." So does anyone else think the Savino charachter is going to be some disguised Rosenthal/Spilotro composite?

Quote: pacomartin

So now we've had:

Vega$ with Robert Urich
Las Vegas with James Caan
Vegas with Dennis Quaid

Did I miss any series?

"Crime Story"

Quote: AZDuffman

"Crime Story"

That was a good one too.

Does this one count?

Oh, I believe that was not a winner. I couldn't even remember the name had "Viva" in it.

Wonder if they are going to resurrect the Montecito casino

Quote: SlangNRox

Wonder if they are going to resurrect the Montecito casino

Maybe the Tangiers?

Quote: EvenBob

Can anybody alive now honestly say they didn't love
the 60's?

Vietnam.

Nixon.

Ugh.

Good riddance.

Quote: SlangNRox

Wonder if they are going to resurrect the Montecito casino

I know workers on the strip who actually had people ask where the Montecito was located at.

Quote: Boz

I know workers on the strip who actually had people ask where the Montecito was located at.

I was surprised to find out there is an actual "Rampart" casino in Vegas.

I never got the name "Montecito." It means "little mount," or even "small pile."

Quote: MrV

Vietnam.

Nixon.

Ugh.

Good riddance.

Nixon was president for one year in the 60's, 1969, and that
ruined the whole decade? Vietnam was the last few years
of the 60's and we didn't wake up every day going 'oh no,
Vietnam'. Were you even alive in the 60's? You couldn't
have been if you think Nixon was an issue.

IIRC, both Hearts are Wild and Father of the Pride were both set in Vegas and had "Viva Las Vegas" as their theme songs - HAW by Kenny Rogers, and FOTP by John Goodman.

Quote: EvenBob

Nixon was president for one year in the 60's, 1969, and that
ruined the whole decade? Vietnam was the last few years
of the 60's and we didn't wake up every day going 'oh no,
Vietnam'.

No, Bob, Vietnam was not just an issue "the last few years of the 60's." Involvement began with "advisors" during the Eisenhower administration, grew during the Kennedy years, and expanded substantially during the Johnson administration, which began in late 1963. Maybe we didn't wake up every day going "oh no, Vietnam", but we did hear body counts for both sides reported on every evening's newscast for quite a few years, though it turns out that many of those reports were fiction.

Nevertheless, complaining about Vietnam and Nixon at the same time is almost funny. One of the very best visual aids I ever saw used to support a presentation was one that Nixon used in a televised speech late in his first term, perhaps while he was campaigning for re-election but I think a little earlier. It was a graph that showed the total US military forces deployed in Vietnam vs. time. The graph showed a steady rise for years to a peak followed by a steady and sharper decline for several years. That peak occurred right as Nixon took office.

There are plenty of things that people can use to complain about Nixon, and some folks may not like the way we got out of Vietnam. But the widespread public consensus when he was elected in 1968 was that we should not be fighting in Vietnam but had continued to build up our combat troops there for almost a decade. Nixon did exactly what the public wanted and got the military out of that country as quickly as practical.

Quote: Doc

No, Bob, Vietnam was not just an issue "the last few years of the 60's." Involvement began with "advisors" during the Eisenhower administration,

Gee, thanks for the history lesson. I was reading about Vietnam in
1960 when I was in Jr High. About the American doctors that saw
saw the atrocities of the Viet Cong. My point was, it wasn't a big deal
for most people till the late 60's. I got out of HS in '67 and we
heard very little about Vietnam before then. We knew boys
were getting drafted, but it just wasn't a big deal. It was after
I graduated in May and later that summer that things really
started escalating. I knew 5 guys that died in Vietnam in 1968
and 1969, one of them got the Medal of Honor. So don't tell me
about Vietrnam.

In 1961 they made us read Deliver Us From Evil by Dr Tom Dooley.
In it, he details the methods used by the Viet Cong to torture
priests and others. I never forgot it, hell of a thing to make 13 year
olds read.

Quote: EvenBob

My point was, it wasn't a big deal
for most people till the late 60's. I got out of HS in '67 and we
heard very little about Vietnam before then. We knew boys
were getting drafted, but it just wasn't a big deal. It was after
I graduated in May and later that summer that things really
started escalating.

Bob, it certainly sounds as if it wasn't a big deal to you until you and/or your own classmates started getting drafted. Understandable. The guys in the class of '65 probably thought it was a big deal two years before you did, and the class of '63 two years before that. I was in the class of '63 and had friends who died in Vietnam while you were still in high school. I thought the war in Vietnam was a pretty big deal a long, long time before I was drafted in early '69. I understand that you don't want anyone telling you about that war, and I would like to understand your perspective better. Just when along the way did you go on active duty anyway?

Quote: Doc

I understand that you don't want anyone telling you about that war,

You don't understand crap. Please don't lecture me about
what I do and don't know, about what I did or didn't do.
You really want to play a childish one upsmanship game
with me? Really?

Bob, you seem to be getting upset about something. I certainly have no idea what you do or don't know or did or didn't do. I'm not lecturing you; I'm just pointing out that your statements about Vietnam not being a big deal until you were out of high school seem to be influenced by the fact that it didn't have a big impact on your own life or your friends until then. Others had different experiences and saw it as a big deal much earlier than you did. As for a childish one upsmanship game, I don't think I have ever played that or observed you coming out ahead in one.

It was all about Viva Laughlin for me. It was the last time I saw a promo for a show and thought I accidentally ate acid.

Who we kidding it is never an accident.

Quote: EvenBob

Doesn't surprise me. The 60's is hot right now, with the
success of Madmen and the nostalgia for a simpler time.
Can anybody alive now honestly say they didn't love
the 60's?

I wasn't even alive in the 60s and I miss them. And by that I mean that I wish I had had the opportunity to live through that time...assuming I didn't get drafted into Vietnam, of course...