Siegfried & Roy, and pre-“Godfather” Gianni Russo, Las Vegas, October 1970. Phot
Siegfried & Roy, and pre-“Godfather” Gianni Russo, Las Vegas, October 1970. Photos by Hank deLespinasse, Remember When. The magicians and their unpredictable cheetah Chico had joined the cast of the Stadust’s Lido de Paris in 1970. These photos were taken around the premiere of Russo’s late night show, Welcome to My Lifestyle, KSHO-TV-3 in Las Vegas. Russo, who the show’s PR called an, “eccentric young millionaire,” by his own account began visiting in Las Vegas as a teenage courier for Frank Costello in the late 50s and was still working for Costello in the late 60s when he operated Gianno Russo’s Wig World at 1431 E Charleston. “A movie [will] be made from The Godfather book … Gianni Russo, a guy who has some kind of a TV after hour show here, has told people he was going to be in the flick, but he was saying that before the book was written.” - Don Digilio column, RJ, 2/25/71 -- source link