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COPYRIGHT 2004 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: MIKE WEATHERFORD, REVIEW-JOURNAL
When Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme first worked the Strip in 1957, "you could get in one-and-a-half minutes from the old El Rancho to the Sands," Gorme remembers.
Now, it takes that long to get from the dressing room to the stage of some of the out-of-town performing arts centers where one of show business's most famous couples has been performing.
Hence, one answer to the frequently asked question: Why haven't Steve and Eydie played Las Vegas since they closed down the original Caesars Palace showroom in 2000?
"We both love performing, but physically traveling ...," Lawrence says.
"It's unreal," Gorme adds, in that way they have of punctuating and finishing each other's sentences.
"We travel the best possible way you can travel, but still. To physically get there ..." he continues.
"We said forget it," she adds. "Then we sort of forgot it, and it was boring."
The deal maker for the duo's return to the Stardust this weekend might have been the same thing Wayne Newton was proud of when his name went on the classic showroom: You can drive your car right into the backstage area.
"I don't want to have to walk 10...
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