With the news that the forthcoming memoirs from Las Vegas icons Siegfried and Roy are due out early next year, according to Review-Journal gossip-monger Norm Clarke, we got to thinking about prominent people with close affiliations to our town and about whom among them we’d like to see write a book about none other than themselves.
It turned out to be a process of elimination, because while some already have written autobiographies (or are in the process, like Andre Agassi), others, we hope, never will.
Already out
• Basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian (Runnin’ Rebel)
• Rat Pack entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. (Why Me?)
• Howard Hughes’ right-hand man Robert Maheu (Next to Hughes)
• Hole-in-the-Wall mobster Frank Cullotta (Cullotta)
• Porn star Jenna Jameson (How to Make Love Like a Porn Star)
Never want to read
• Oscar Goodman (Would manage to make even memoirs seem narcissistic)
• R-J publisher Sherman Frederick (Already exposes more than we care to see in his Sunday column)
• Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal (Pileggi’s Casino says it all)
• Bob Stupak (No explanation needed)
Would like to see
• Sixth richest man in the world Sheldon Adelson
• G-Sting star Mike Galardi
• Local tycoons the Fertitta brothers
• The one and only Mike Tyson
• Inexhaustible Bob Bailey