Not a good run of luck for Steve Wynne. -----Original Message----- >From: "Thomas Heald, Esquire" <[email protected]> >Sent: May 1, 2009 3:21 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [DEADPOOL] Imitation of life > > >Legendary Vegas entertainer Gans dead at 52 > >LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) — Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans, an >impressionist who sold more tickets on the Strip than the Rat Pack or >Elvis Presley, died early Friday, his manager said. He was 52. > >Gans, best known for his touching impersonation of entertainer George >Burns, began a five-year headline gig at tycoon Steve Wynn's Wynn Las >Vegas hotel in February. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at the Mirage. > >Gans earned Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year honors 11 years in a row >in the reader poll conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal but was not >well known beyond Las Vegas. > >The cause of death was unknown. Gans's manager Chip Lightman expressed >his shock at the impressionist's passing. > >"The guy was healthy as an ox," Lightman said. "I spoke to Steve Wynn >several times this morning and both of us were shocked. I was with Danny >the day before yesterday. Healthy as an ox. I mean, all he ate was egg >whites and spinach and worked out religiously." > >Gans was a former minor league baseball player who turned to performing >after a career-ending injury. > >He appeared as a player in the film "Bull Durham" and found success in >his 1995 one-man show in New York before moving the next year to Las Vegas. > >He is survived by a wife and three children. > >>
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