DOCSLIB.ORG

First Anniversary of Back to the Future Day at the Plaza Hotel & Casino on Oct. 21

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
First Anniversary of Back to the Future Day at the Plaza Hotel & Casino on Oct. 21 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 14, 2016 MEDIA CONTACT: Amy E. S. Maier, Faiss Foley Warren, [email protected], 702-912-4591 First Anniversary of Back to the Future Day at the Plaza Hotel & Casino on Oct. 21 Site of Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Palace celebrates blockbuster film with party under the dome Las Vegas, Nev. – The Plaza Hotel & Casino, which served as the backdrop for Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel in the 1980s blockbuster movie “Back to the Future II,” will again travel back to the ‘80s on Fri., Oct 21 to host the First Anniversary Party for Back to the Future Day, the famed arrival date of Marty McFly and Doc Brown in the beginning of the movie. Attended by hundreds last year, the party will be extended this year with festivities beginning at 3 p.m. under the Plaza’s iconic dome, where guests can take their picture next to a collection of DeLoreans, including a replica time machine, sponsored by the Las Vegas DeLorean Club. “Marty McFly,” “Biff Tannen” and “Doc Brown” will also be on hand for photos with guests. The entire trilogy of the Back to the Future movies will play on the television screens in the adjacent Beer Garden. Under the dome, guests can go back in time with a modern take on the root beer float with Biff’s Root Beer Beer Float made with a scoop of vanilla ice cream suspended in root beer beer. The first 100 guests to buy a drink under the dome will receive $10 match play coupons. Two other drink specials will be available under the dome, at all casino bars and in the Beer Garden: Doc’s Wake Up Juice (vodka and Red Bull) and Marty’s Cherry Pepsi (Jack Daniel’s whiskey, Pepsi and cherry juice). Guests are encouraged to come to the party dressed in their best ‘80s outfits or as their favorite “Back to the Future” character. A special costume contest will be held at 8 p.m., with winners for the best ‘80s outfit and the best movie costume each winning $250. Throughout the Plaza, popular ‘80s music will play all day long, and the ‘70s inspired live act, Wonder Boogie, will transform into a classic ‘80s hair band for one day only, playing in Omaha Lounge at 9:30 p.m. That evening, Oscar’s steakhouse offers a Time Machine Special that includes bacon wrapped meatloaf with baby carrots and mashed potatoes for $24.95. About the Plaza Hotel & Casino Located in the heart of downtown Las Vegas, the Plaza Hotel & Casino combines a vintage Rat Pack attitude with modern styling for the ultimate Vegas experience. First opened in 1971 and built on the site of the original Las Vegas railroad depot, the Plaza boasts 1,003 rooms and suites renovated with custom-designed Mark David furnishings, a 500-seat classic Vegas showroom with nationally recognized entertainment, and a variety of dining venues led by the modern meets Rat Pack styled Oscar’s steakhouse in the iconic glass dome overlooking the Fremont Street Experience. The Plaza has more than 500 slot machines and nearly two dozen table games on its 80,000 square foot casino floor, downtown’s largest race and sports book with 75 flat screen televisions, downtown’s only bingo hall, and 30,000 square feet of ballroom and meeting space. www.plazahotelcasino.com ### .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Digital Dialectics: the Paradox of Cinema in a Studio Without Walls', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , Vol
    Scott McQuire, ‘Digital dialectics: the paradox of cinema in a studio without walls', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , vol. 19, no. 3 (1999), pp. 379 – 397. This is an electronic, pre-publication version of an article published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is available online at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g713423963~db=all. Digital dialectics: the paradox of cinema in a studio without walls Scott McQuire There’s a scene in Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Paramount Pictures; USA, 1994) which encapsulates the novel potential of the digital threshold. The scene itself is nothing spectacular. It involves neither exploding spaceships, marauding dinosaurs, nor even the apocalyptic destruction of a postmodern cityscape. Rather, it depends entirely on what has been made invisible within the image. The scene, in which actor Gary Sinise is shown in hospital after having his legs blown off in battle, is noteworthy partly because of the way that director Robert Zemeckis handles it. Sinise has been clearly established as a full-bodied character in earlier scenes. When we first see him in hospital, he is seated on a bed with the stumps of his legs resting at its edge. The assumption made by most spectators, whether consciously or unconsciously, is that the shot is tricked up; that Sinise’s legs are hidden beneath the bed, concealed by a hole cut through the mattress. This would follow a long line of film practice in faking amputations, inaugurated by the famous stop-motion beheading in the Edison Company’s Death of Mary Queen of Scots (aka The Execution of Mary Stuart, Thomas A.
    [Show full text]
  • System Safety Engineering: Back to the Future
    System Safety Engineering: Back To The Future Nancy G. Leveson Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology c Copyright by the author June 2002. All rights reserved. Copying without fee is permitted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage and provided that credit to the source is given. Abstracting with credit is permitted. i We pretend that technology, our technology, is something of a life force, a will, and a thrust of its own, on which we can blame all, with which we can explain all, and in the end by means of which we can excuse ourselves. — T. Cuyler Young ManinNature DEDICATION: To all the great engineers who taught me system safety engineering, particularly Grady Lee who believed in me, and to C.O. Miller who started us all down this path. Also to Jens Rasmussen, whose pioneering work in Europe on applying systems thinking to engineering for safety, in parallel with the system safety movement in the United States, started a revolution. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The research that resulted in this book was partially supported by research grants from the NSF ITR program, the NASA Ames Design For Safety (Engineering for Complex Systems) program, the NASA Human-Centered Computing, and the NASA Langley System Archi- tecture Program (Dave Eckhart). program. Preface I began my adventure in system safety after completing graduate studies in computer science and joining the faculty of a computer science department. In the first week at my new job, I received a call from Marion Moon, a system safety engineer at what was then Ground Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft Company.
    [Show full text]
  • The Back to the Future Trilogy Available for the Very First Time on Dvd
    CONSUMER MEDIA RELEASE MAY 2002 GREAT SCOTT! THE BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY AVAILABLE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME ON DVD PLANNED RELEASE DATE - AUGUST 21, 2002 Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover One of the most eagerly awaited DVD and video collections is almost here. Presented by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis the legendary 'Back to the Future Trilogy' will be available August 21, 2002 on VHS and for the first time ever, on DVD with over 10 hours of special features including deleted scenes, outtakes, music videos and much, much more! Since it's original cinema release in the 80's, The Back to the Future Trilogy has amassed a staggering worldwide box office revenue of US$926 million. In fact, 'Back to the Future' was the worldwide highest grossing film of 1985. For generations time travel has captivated readers and movie-goers alike, and this August the most revered series of films in this genre will not only be re-lived by those who treasured the original cinema releases - but will be introduced to a whole new generation on DVD. It doesn't matter if you are a fan of the 80's, Michael J Fox, or the technology of DVD - this is an event not to be missed, being one of the most anticipated DVD releases of all-time. Back to the Future follows the amazing adventures of Marty McFly (Michael J Fox), a high-school student in the small Northern California town of Hill Valley. The fun begins when Marty’s friend and mentor, crazed scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), invents a time machine in the form of a nuclear-powered DeLorean.
    [Show full text]
  • Imagining a Multiracial Future Author(S): Leilani Nishime Source: Cinema Journal, Vol
    Society for Cinema & Media Studies The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future Author(s): LeiLani Nishime Source: Cinema Journal, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Winter, 2005), pp. 34-49 Published by: University of Texas Press on behalf of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3661093 Accessed: 18-09-2016 02:53 UTC REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3661093?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents You may need to log in to JSTOR to access the linked references. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Society for Cinema & Media Studies, University of Texas Press are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Cinema Journal This content downloaded from 128.210.126.199 on Sun, 18 Sep 2016 02:53:57 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future by LeiLani Nishime Abstract: Applying the literature of passing to cyborg cinema makes visible the politics of cyborg representations and illuminates contemporary conceptions of mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations of mixed-race bodies. The passing nar- rative also reveals the constitutive role of melancholy and nostalgia both in creat- ing cyborg cinema and in undermining its subversive potential.
    [Show full text]
  • INSIGHT: Even Without Marty Mcfly Powers, Antitrust Regulators Generally Get It Right by Kristen Limarzi January 3, 2020
    INSIGHT: Even Without Marty McFly Powers, Antitrust Regulators Generally Get It Right By Kristen Limarzi January 3, 2020 Antitrust agencies don’t have a back to the whether an independent Instagram or Waze future time machine like Marty McFly’s, but would provide more competition today, they generally do a good job assessing the future but whether there would have been more impact of global mergers, writes Gibson Dunn’s competition absent the mergers. The antitrust Kristen Limarzi. She looks at the Facebook- agencies don’t have a time machine like Instagram and Google-Waze cases and says Marty’s to test the counterfactual. But they the remedy of unwinding long-consummated do have skilled investigators and economists, mergers should be reserved for cases where the and there’s no evidence they are systematically Kristen C. Limarzi loss of competition is clear, and not based on waving through anticompetitive mergers. Partner speculative counterfactuals. Potential Competition Doctrine More than 100 global competition authorities met Dec. 5-6, 2019, in Paris for the OECD Merger review under the Clayton Act is Global Forum on Competition. On the always a forward-looking exercise. The agenda: How best to assess likely future effects statute prohibits mergers the effect of which of mergers in rapidly changing industries. “may be substantially to lessen competition.” As the U.S. Supreme Court observed, the This discussion comes when many are very wording “requires a prognosis of the criticizing the U.S. antitrust agencies for failing probable future effects of the merger.” to block acquisitions of nascent competitors Sometimes merging firms already compete, by large tech platforms.
    [Show full text]
  • GEMOLOGIST Paradise, Purgatory Or the Pit: What Can DM Managers Learn from EM Managers About Forecasting?
    GEMOLOGIST Paradise, purgatory or the pit: what can DM managers learn from EM managers about forecasting? Gary Greenberg, CFA Head of Hermes Emerging Markets Hermes Emerging Markets Newsletter Q2 2017 For professional investors only www.hermes-investment.com 2 GEMOLOGIST PARADISE, PURGATORY OR THE PIT PARADISE, PURGATORY OR THE PIT: WHAT CAN DM MANAGERS LEARN FROM EM MANAGERS ABOUT FORECASTING? The cracks in the global economic WHAT TWO WORLD WARS AND DONALD firmament, while real, are unlikely TRUMP TELL US ABOUT THE MARKET’S to bring the sky crashing down right PREDICTIVE POWERS There’s a widely held belief that the financial markets are prescient, away. Institutions are resilient, and the current consensus view is that the post-US election bull having been strengthened throughout market heralds a bright economic future. But a careful look at the decades of exercising power, but the performance of the German stock market in the 1930s and 1940s should provoke questions about the assumed infallibility of markets problems in the developed world will (see figure 1). foment in the years to come and Figure 1. Blitz then bust: performance of the German stock market, 1930-1950 manifest as significant investment risks. 12 Prices frozen This results in a comparatively upbeat 11 Barbarossa view of emerging markets – however, 10 Battle of Britain Market closed Stalingrad August 1944 if developed markets collapse, 9 Blitzkrieg euphoria 8 all bets are off anyway. Worries that 7 Hitler comes Hitler has gone too far 6 to power 5 4 KEY POINTS 3 Market closed due to credit crisis 2 1931 1941 1937 1947 1932 1935 1942 1933 1945 1939 1950 1936 1934 1943 1938 1949 1930 1946 1944 1948 1940 uuCan financial markets predict the future? Source: “Wealth, War and Wisdom” by Barton Biggs, published by Wiley in 2008 During some pivotal episodes in modern history, investors have collectively made disastrously wrong The rise of the market in the early and mid-1930s made sense – in forecasts.
    [Show full text]
  • Classrooms of the Future Marty Mcfly and Dr Emmett Brown Managed To
    Classrooms of the Future Marty McFly and Dr Emmett Brown managed to do it. They transported themselves through time in the film Back to the Future and its sequels. In the second film, on October 26, 1985, Dr. Emmett Brown arrived in the DeLorean time machine and persuaded Marty McFly and his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, to travel to the future with him and help their forthcoming children. They travelled thirty years ahead to October 26, 2015. The film was actually made in 1989, some 26 years before the futuristic date in the film. The screenwriters, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, attempted to predict the future. According to Zemeckis, the 2015 depicted in the film was not meant to be an accurate representation of the future. However, the film did correctly predict a number of technological and sociological changes that occurred by 2015, including: the rise of ubiquitous cameras; the use of unmanned flying drones for newsgathering; widescreen flat-panel television sets mounted on walls with multiple channel viewing; video chat systems; hands-free video games; talking hologram billboards; wearable technology; tablet computers with fingerprint scanners; and head-mounted displays. Payment on personal portable devices was also depicted. I am also trying to predict a future: that of education, yet I am not looking 26 years hence. Rather I am looking at five to seven years and the change is likely to be just as impressive as in the film, only achieved in fewer years. This is due to the exponential growth in IT and the impact it is likely to have on education.
    [Show full text]
  • Back to the Future: the Implications of Service and Problem-Based Learning in the Language, Literacy, and Cultural Acquisition of ESOL Students in the 21St Century
    The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal Volume 18, Number 2, September 2018 Back to the future: The implications of service and problem-based learning in the language, literacy, and cultural acquisition of ESOL students in the 21st century Margaret Aker Concordia University, Chicago Luis Javier Pentón Herrera University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Lynn Daniel Concordia University, Chicago ABSTRACT Research has identified the essential proficiencies students should possess to be successful, but they are often not incorporated in the ESOL classroom. As a result, many teachers lack access to adequate instructional strategies to guide ELs to academic success. We argue in this article that, to provide a strong foundation and a bright future for ESOL students, problem-based learning and service-learning (PBSL) should be combined to activate the skills identified by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (2011). For this, we reflect on the 21st century skills and the implications for teaching today’s students—the Millennials and GenZs—keeping in mind the professionals they will become tomorrow. Reflecting a student-centered approach, we incorporate practice into the research process by illustrating a successful integration of PBSL into an ESOL learning environment in higher education and then highlight additional curricular opportunities for synthesizing PBSL at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. INTRODUCTION “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it” (Edelman, 1993, pp. 9-10). Inspired by a call for research in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) field (Wurr, 2013), we seek to contribute by proposing a model that guides the larger discourse on service-learning, civic engagement, and language learning for minority students.
    [Show full text]
  • 'The Coolest Way to Watch Movie Trailers in the World': Trailers in the Digital Age Keith M. Johnston
    1 This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 14, 2 (2008): 145- 60, (c) Sage Publications Available online at: http://con.sagepub.com/content/14/2/145.full.pdf+html DOI: 10.1177/1354856507087946 ‘The Coolest Way to Watch Movie Trailers in the World’: Trailers in the Digital Age Keith M. Johnston Abstract At a time of uncertainty over film and television texts being transferred online and onto portable media players, this article examines one of the few visual texts that exists comfortably on multiple screen technologies: the trailer. Adopted as an early cross-media text, the trailer now sits across cinema, television, home video, the Internet, games consoles, mobile phones and iPods. Exploring the aesthetic and structural changes the trailer has undergone in its journey from the cinema to the iPod screen, the article focuses on the new mobility of these trailers, the shrinking screen size, and how audience participation with these texts has influenced both trailer production and distribution techniques. Exploring these texts, and their technological display, reveals how modern distribution techniques have created a shifting and interactive relationship between film studio and audience. Key words: trailer, technology, Internet, iPod, videophone, aesthetics, film promotion 2 In the current atmosphere of uncertainty over how film and television programmes are made available both online and to mobile media players, this article will focus on a visual text that regularly moves between the multiple screens of cinema, television, computer and mobile phone: the film trailer. A unique text that has often been overlooked in studies of film and media, trailer analysis reveals new approaches to traditional concerns such as stardom, genre and narrative, and engages in more recent debates on interactivity and textual mobility.
    [Show full text]
  • March 2020 | Adar-Nisan 5780 | Volume 68 Number 2
    March 2020 | Adar-Nisan 5780 | Volume 68 Number 2 THIS PURIM WE'RE GOING INSIDE THIS EDITION: HOW JEWS USE MEMORY AS A TOOL ON PURIM 10 REASONS YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS THIS YEAR’S SPIEL ANNUAL PURIM CARNIVAL HAMANTASCHEN BAKE RenewHow Jews Use Memory Our as a Tool Days on Purim By: Brandon Chiat, Digital Media Manager Jews are a people of memory. In many ways, the past Purim calls to mind the verse from Lamentations: Restore grounds Jewish identity, infusing Jewish life with context, us to You, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our purpose, and meaning. days as of old." Jewish memory is why Beth El gathers every year on Rabbi Schwartz explains the bizarrely worded phrase Purim to hear the words of Megillat Esther read aloud in "renew our days as of old" ("chadeish yameinu its entirety. Uniquely, Purim is the only Jewish holiday in k'kedem"): "We have a natural yearning for the past. We which the tradition explicitly commands Jews to listen to look back to happy moments in our life, like sitting next the story in full. to Zadie at Passover Seder, or eating Bubbie's matzah ball soup. These are moments that speak to our identity, "The Megillah is a story of secular, non-religious, our understanding of who we are and where we came unobservant Jews, who find themselves directly from." responsible for the fate of Jewish identity in their part of the diaspora," explained Rabbi Steve Schwartz. "The While it is natural to idealize the past, reflection in powerful message of Purim is that even if you're on the Judaism is more purposeful.
    [Show full text]
  • All the Things That Back to the Future Got Right (And Wrong)
    All the things that Back to the Future got right (and wrong) Posted 7 days ago by i100 staff in ents Upvote Wednesday 21st October 2015 marks the date that Marty McFly and Doc Brown flew through time to visit in the 1989 classic Back to the Future II. While the film, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, made many fanciful predictions which we're still waiting for, it was surprisingly correct in some aspects. Here's what it got right and what it got wrong about the world we live in, in 2015: Right Fingerprint scanners Fingerprint recognition, like that used to pay for a taxi in the film, can be found on the latest iPhones and at US passport control. Fuelling cars on rubbish While you can't exactly scavenge through a wheelie-bin and force feed it through your car's petrol cap (as Doc does to the DeLorean), using waste as a fuel - in the form of biogas, is something we use in 2015. There's even a bus in Bristol that runs entirely on human and food waste. Hoverboard transportation The kind with wheels may be banned on British streets, but inventors in the US have managed to create a real hoverboard using powerful electromagnets and a metal course. The Hendo II, fronted by renowned skateboarder Tony Hawk will be launched on Wednesday. Hands-free games A young Elijah Wood and his pal denounce Marty for using a video game that needs a handset in the film, suggesting that by 2015 hands-free computer games would be mainstream.
    [Show full text]
  • Ovul Durmusoglu
    !By Ovul Durmusoglu ! “…the archive […] determines that all these things said do not accumulate endlessly in an amorphous mass, nor are they inscribed in an unbroken linearity, nor do they disappear at the mercy of chance external accidents; but they are grouped together in distinct figures, composed together in accordance with multiple relations, maintained or blurred in accordance with specific regularities.” - Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1972, London: Tavistock, and New York: !Pantheon, 128. “History is hysterical: it is constituted only if we consider it, only if we look at it – and in order to look at it, we must be excluded from it.” - Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, 1981, New York: Hill and Wang, !65. !“Nothing Is.” - Sun Ra ! !I. We were able to experience cinematic spectacle in the cinemas that hadn’t yet been tucked inside shopping malls. I remember taking in the catchy iconography of the science fiction comedy Back to the Future (1985) starring Michael J. Fox in a popular cinema in Ankara where I grew up. A crazy professor named Doc Brown transforms a DeLorean DMC-12 into a time machine. The main protagonist Marty McFly finds himself instantaneously transported from 1985 to 1955 shortly after being introduced to the time machine by his friend. Marty spends his time in 1955 to better his family history – ultimately, in order to better his present. No wonder it was a favorite of the US president at the time, Ronald Reagan: the film’s message is typical of 1980s Hollywood, espousing a good, happy American family and the preservation of social values based on that good !family.
    [Show full text]