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A DAY in the LIVES of FANS Starting Tuesday INSIDE ENTERTAINMENT 7G TRAVEL 9G Sunday Life Features & TrTravelavel LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL • AUGUST 17, 2014 • SECTION G FEATURES DESK • 702-387-2909 a Mike HISTORIC LAS VEGAS CONCERTS Weatherford ENTERTAINMENT “If my memory is correct, I think we were in, like, the seventh row. But we were really close, and I just remember (Dad) sitting with his fingers in his ears the whole concert. I was just screaming, crazy loud. It was a wonderful thing.” CHRISTIE MULLIKIN JONES Could BEATLES FAN ‘Wizard Wars’ aid Ve gas? couple of things you will see on Syfy’s “Wizard Wars” ATuesday that you don’t see in Las Vegas: A) New illusions created in a competitive setting, not just the same old stuffing of women into cabinets and stabbing them with swords. B) The larger illusion that young, attractive people actually sit and watch young, attractive people perform magic in cool nightclubs. “We did kind of build this ideal magic venue,” Rick Lax says of the latter, created in the Los Angeles Herald- Examiner building that’s seen new life for film and TV production. In Las Vegas, he agrees, “most magic shows are not set up that way. They’re not that intimate and the audience isn’t that attractive and young.” But maybe A can help JEFF SCHEID/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL make B come true. Christie Mullikin Jones, seen here with a T-shirt featuring The Beatles of a later era, saw The Beatles play Las Vegas on Aug. 20, 1964, and As I wrote in February remains a lifelong fan. (when “Wizard Wars” was first scheduled to air, then abruptly postponed), Lax created the concept of a magical spin on the Food Network’s “Chopped,” and sold it based on a YouTube pilot filmed in his Las Vegas apartment. Now the Las Vegas THE writer and Penguin Magic associate is the producer BEATLES and magic consultant for six professionally produced hours of “Wizard Wars,” A DAY IN THE LIVES OF FANS starting Tuesday. Penn & Teller serve as the judges and wise sages to less-known local magicians such as Shimshi and Justin Flom. Longtime Las Ve gans recall “Wizard Wars” joins what seems to be a boomlet of television’s renewed interest the 1964 concerts and in magic. It’s not even the only show where Penn & Teller judge less-famous the surrounding hysteria magicians. Their British series “Fool Us” is in the By JOHN PRZYBYS midst of a U.S. airing on the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL CW. The CW also is running istoric? “Masters of Illusion,” Sure, some of the fans who attended The with a host of Las Vegas- Beatles’ first and only visit to Las Vegas 50 based magicians. Viewers years ago this week may have had an inkling are responding to “The that it would be historic. Carbonaro Effect” with For many — and maybe for most — it Michael Carbonaro on TruTV. wasHat the very least a great excuse to catch the latest “Magic goes in waves,” supergroup and a cool way to cap off summer before says Murray Sawchuck, who school resumed, in a town where popular music still was recently filmed “Extreme more about the Rat Pack than four English guys with Escapes” with Riviera scandalous haircuts. headliner Jan Rouven for a But historic it was. The Beatles’ 1964 U.S. tour, September launch on Reelz which came on the heels of the group’s now-iconic Channel. “If we really knew performances on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” furthered what was going to hit next, along a revolution in music, politics and pop culture that we’d all be millionaires.” had already begun, and there would be no turning back. Sawchuck, Nathan Burton When The Beatles came to Las Vegas on Aug. and Tommy Wind all compete 20, 1964, and took to a patio-sized stage in the on “Wizard Wars” with (appropriately) flying saucer-shaped rotunda at the Las magicians who aren’t trying Vegas Convention Center, it was an epic event, both to sell tickets on the Strip. for those lucky enough to be there and those who just Whether it helps them happened to be close enough by to experience a bit of, individually, the rising tide that’s right, history. could push Las Vegas magic • • • in the right direction. Glenn Shaw didn’t see the concert. But he and his “It should show people niece, Linda Shaw Stiles, believe they caught what that if you really focus on would have been an early sighting of the group. creating something from the Shaw was 20 then and working at a car rental agency ground up, it is possible,” at McCarran Airport. Lax says. “But for a lot of LAS VEGAS NEWS BUREAU FILE magicians, the incentive to The Beatles arrive in Las Vegas in preparation for their two ▶ SEE BEATLES PAGE 2G originate just isn’t there.” shows at the Las Vegas Convention Center. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF FANS Just as Syfy’s “Face Off” taught Hollywood makeup secrets to laypeople, “Wizard Wars” is “the first show where you kind of get to see the magician’s thinking and the process,” not just the result performed on stage. And if the result in Las Vegas is a live version of “Wizard Wars”? “Wouldn’t Images from that be wonderful,” Lax says The Beatles’ with a laugh. “Hard Days Contact reporter Mike Weatherford at Night” album [email protected] or 702-383-0288. Page 2G • Sunday, August 17, 2014 a Las Vegas Review-Journal THE BEATLES: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF FANS “I said, ‘Let’s try to sneak in between these two buildings.’ I turned off the lights of the car and, as I pull in between the two buildings, I see the limo trying to come out. We were no more than 10 or 15 feet from them. They just stuck their heads out watching, like,‘What’s going on?’ “ GLENN SHAW BEATLES FAN TERRY TODD/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Beatles fans line up to purchase concert tickets at the Las Vegas Convention Center on June 29, 1964. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1G terrible summer. Berkley, former Nevada “Of course, the day of congresswoman and now CEO their arrival, the airport was and senior provost for Touro flooded with kids,” he says. University’s Western Division, “Having worked at the airport, was 13 years old. The month I knew where The Beatles before, she and her family were arriving, which wasn’t had driven across the country at the main terminal but the so that her father could seek old terminal out on Las Vegas employment in Southern Boulevard.” California’s hospitality industry. So, he says, “I got hold of my Instead, they stopped in niece and said I knew where Las Vegas, where the family they were coming in.” was living in a one-bedroom Linda already was a big apartment behind the Blue Beatles fan, owning every Angel Motel, one block north of album the group did to that East Charleston Boulevard. point and, of course, tickets for It was oppressively hot. one of the Las Vegas shows. So Berkley missed her friends when her uncle called, “I was so back home. She felt isolated and excited,” she says. “I couldn’t alone. honestly believe that I was “I thought my parents had going to be able to see them. I taken me to hell,” Berkley thought if I can just be close to recalls. them, I’d be thrilled.” But, somehow, her parents “I got off work,” Glenn were able to score four tickets recalls. “I had a little MICHAEL QUINE/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL to The Beatles’ concert. They Thunderbird convertible back Glenn Shaw and his niece Linda Shaw Stiles accidentally blocked the exit of The Beatles’ limousine from sat in nosebleed seats, Berkley then, and we drove over to the McCarran Airport after the group’s arrival. with her mom and her sister, other terminal. It was kind of Wendy, with her dad. dark. No one was around. But Berkley screamed. She cried. we did see the plane pull up. And, she says, for the first time “I said, ‘Let’s try to sneak in ONLINE EXTRAS since she had arrived in Las between these two buildings.’ I Vegas a few weeks before, she turned off the lights of the car STORY: felt happy. and, as I pull in between the two reviewjournal.com/ Berkley recalls that as she buildings, I see the limo trying beatles_fans left the concert, a big moon to come out. hung in the sky. It was then, she “We were no more than 10 or VIDEO: recalls, that “I realized that Las 15 feet from them,” Glenn says. reviewjournal.com/beatles50th Vegas might not be such a bad “They just stuck their heads out place to live. watching, like, ‘What’s going “Las Vegas was now home. on?’ It was the beginning of my “We were nose to nose with but my tears finally wore Dad incredible life in Las Vegas. the limousine. Finally a police down. He dropped Mom and After that show, I never looked officer came to help me back I off, and when we got to the back.” out and, in the meantime, my front of the line to get our The Beatles concert even niece and her girlfriend, they’re tickets, they were sold out! We may have planted the seeds jumping up and down.” sat on the curb and waited for of Berkley’s political career. Glenn backed out, parked and Dad to come back to get us.
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