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Sunday, April 10, 2005


A Phone Call to the City Desk, or Letter to the Editor Would Have Sufficed...

Ex-NFL Player Saw Siegfried, Roy As Threat
Sun Apr 10, 8:50 AM ET Entertainment - AP (LAS VEGAS) A former pro football player accused of shooting at the compound of Siegfried & Roy wanted to warn the world of the threat posed by the illusionists, according to a psychiatric report.

... Cole Ford was charged with firing several shotgun blasts at the Las Vegas home of entertainers Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn. Ford, 32, a former kicker for the Oakland Raiders, has been ruled incompetent to stand trial and sent to a mental health facility for treatment...'While watching Siegfried and Roy, he had a sudden realization that what was wrong with the world was linked to the illusionists' treatment, dominance and unhealthy intimacy he saw them having with their animals...'"

I saw Siegfried and Roy perform at their theater in the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, back in 1995. I've got to say I don't disagree with Mr. Ford, just with his methods. I don't know if it was the custom written by Michael Jackson theme song, the weirdly snug-fitting body suits, the faces stretched tighter than Ralph Nader's election fund, the Teutonic accents, or what... maybe the girls in pasties and G-strings were out of place. Heck, it could have just been the wholeVegas thing... for all the magic and illusion, those two guys, plain and simple, gave me the creeps. They may not be all, the sole cause of the world's state, but they're certainly closer to the problem than the solution.

And don't go saying this is some kind of anti-Germanic, homophobic, plastic surgery hating, Michael Jackson bashing screed... It's really more about Sigfried and Roy themselves... and Mr. Ford will back me up on that when they let him out.

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