By Polly Peluso
polpeluso1@yahoo.com

 My Friend Robert Goulet

Las Vegans' considered Robert Goulet as one of their own as he lived here so long while performing all over the world. He was very young when he was recognized as one of the major "big voices" in the world while performing in "Camelot" on Broadway. It saddened many thousand of people all over the world with his passing. He was a man of all talents in the entertainment field but what I liked about him so much too was his great sense of humor. He was the absolute in "Gotcha". He pulled one of his Gotcha gigs on me once.

Robert Goulet
November 26, 1933- October 30, 2007
The Funeral November 9, 2007

Photo by Stephen Thorburn

After leaving as the director of Playboy Model Agency, I became the director of Cosmopolitan Talent Agency in Los Angeles. The enormously wealthy man that owned Cosmopolitan was a very unusual appearing little Chinese man, who favored wearing Chinese clothing, especially a beautiful decorated red Chinese coat. He was possibly the biggest donor at every Thalian Ball, as well as every other big expensive gala. He always invited me to play hostess with him and would even let me have one table of my own to invite entertainment industry people to. A table would cost twelve thousand dollars each and he would usually take about 15 tables.

On this evening when Robert and Vera Goulet entered the room, I greeted them. Goulet acknowledged me with a greeting and said, "Would you please get that little Chinese man in the red velvet coat to get us a vodka on the rocks". I said "Oh, would you like to meet the largest donor here tonight - that is Milton Shoong, the fellow in the red velvet coat". I never knew if he was kidding or not but I knew I would never ask Milton to go get anyone a drink. The last time I saw and heard Robert Goulet was when he appeared in all his glory at the Venetian Hotel and I was able to take my granddaughter Jennifer Celi-Thompson with me. We were speaking this week about how great he was and the great jokes he had in between songs. Robert and Vera sent me a Christmas card ever since I can remember.

This week as I was going into Jacobs-Modaber Medical building to see my doctor, Laura Addis. Out walked Wayne Newton and his lovely wife. Both were very friendly and charming as always and Wayne looked the picture of health.

After a terrorizing event, Las Vegas world travelers and writers, John and Victoria Alexander are back home from Rwanda, Africa. A mammoth size Silver Back gorilla brushed by Victoria - the rest of other visitors were so shocked and frighten , that no one even got a photo of it. Victoria does not need a picture to remind her of her terrifying experience