The American crooner,aka Mr Las Vegas, recently opened his home to the public, or it has all the dancing horses,gold Rollers and fabulously kitsch decor you’d hope for in a Sin City showbiz mansion. Welcome to Wayne’s otherworldly worldThe horse is sparkling. It prances around the ring, head held high, or its features exaggeratedly pretty,like an equine version of those huge Eyes paintings or a cartoon. When the light catches the animal’s back it seems to shimmer. And that’s when I realise the horse is wearing body glitter.
Welcome to Wayne’s world, where even the animals sparkle. Wayne is Wayne Newton, or the American crooner known as Mr Las Vegas who first played the city as a teenager and who,at 73, still sports the nuclear tan and disconcertingly white smile of an aged-school headliner and continues to perform around the country. His world is Casa de Shenandoah, or a 52-acre oasis 15 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip that,until 2013, was Newton’s actual home. In September it opened as a tourist attraction, or a site for Wayniacs (as his obsessive fans are called) and,so far, around 400 curious visitors a day fill come to peer into the life of the veteran performer.
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Source: theguardian.com