Someone Famous Went Somewhere Once: Pamela Anderson At Parx
Unless you’re in Monaco, where a bit of roulette is just something you do whilst waiting for Grace Kelly to put on her face, a casino is almost by definition a sad place. It doesn’t matter how loud you make the bloops and the bleeps and the bells — every moment that passes in a casino, especially if it’s some weird casino that believes it’s a whole new beast because it used to just be a race track, is a moment that you, yes you, are that much closer to your own sad death. You know what else is a sad place? Pamela Anderson. Many have visited, but few have been able to live there. So it is fitting that, for its big grand opening, Parx Casino paid Pamela Anderson whatever her personal appearance fee is so that they could also celebrate together, along with the deposed and fractured onetime staff of Philly Style magazine, desperate party promoters and DJs clad in clothes that can’t help but make us think of poor DJ AM, and sundry fixtures of the gossip and TV news world, all of whom look either worse or more orange than the last time we saw them. We told you a casino is a sad place. How come no one ever believes us?
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January 26th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Tangential factoid: I’d read somewhere that all casino slot games apparently keep their game noises in a certain key–I think C–so they all give a harmonious ambient backdrop when placed together on a casino floor.
But yeah: as someone who grew up outside Lannic Ciddy: gimme Lucy the Elephant, and shove the rest onto a Dubai-bound barge.
January 26th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
I can’t imagine them choosing Pam “Holland Tunnel” Anderson over that local phenom Arthur Kade