{"id":253297,"date":"2023-01-12T12:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=253297"},"modified":"2023-01-12T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:42:36","slug":"westgate-las-vegas-celebrates-austin-butlers-golden-globes-elvis-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/westgate-las-vegas-celebrates-austin-butlers-golden-globes-elvis-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Westgate Las Vegas Celebrates Austin Butler\u2019s \u2018Elvis&#8217; Golden Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After actor Austin Butler won a Golden Globe on Tuesday night, what happened in Vegas was a celebration fit for a king.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253300\" data-style=\"width: 1132px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-253300 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/butler-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Elvis statue at Westgate Las Vegas\" width=\"1132\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/butler-twitter.jpg 1132w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/butler-twitter-858x622.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/butler-twitter-430x311.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1132px) 100vw, 1132px\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-253300\"class=\"text-description\">The morning after actor Austin Butler&#8217;s Golden Globes win for the movie, &#8216;Elvis,&#8217; the lobby at Westgate Las Vegas got a new look. (Image: Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The next morning, the Westgate, the casino hotel where Elvis Presley headlined from 1969 to 1976 \u2013 and where he slept, partied, and shot up TVs in a penthouse suite \u2013 erected a sign next to the famous bronze Elvis statue gracing its lobby, around which it slung a blue sash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Legend Lives On!&#8221; <\/strong>it read. <strong>&#8220;Congratulations Austin Butler.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Butler nabbed the Best Actor in a Drama Award for playing the lead role in Baz Luhrmann\u2019s 2022 movie, <em>Elvis. <\/em>During his acceptance speech, the California-raised thespian still spoke with the thick Tupelo twang he picked up on set.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\"><p><strong>My boy, my boy,\u201d<\/strong> Butler said, thanking Elvis\u2019 daughter Lisa Marie and ex-wife Priscilla, who were in the audience. <strong>\u201cOh, man, all my words are leaving me. I am just so grateful right now.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Addressing a question about his new speech affectation backstage after his win, Butler said: \u201cI don\u2019t think I sound like him still. But I guess I must, because I hear it a lot. I often liken it to when somebody lives in another country for a long time, and I had three years where that was my only focus in life, so I\u2019m sure there\u2019s just pieces of my DNA that will always be linked in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Viva Las Vegas<\/h2>\n<p>Elvis performed 636 concerts, two per night at the Westgate, from when it opened as the International Hotel on July 31, 1969, through its 1971 metamorphosis into the Las Vegas Hilton, to his final show there on Dec. 12, 1976. The showroom stage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/the-elvis-presley-buildings-that-are-left-in-las-vegas\/\">still exists today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elvis earned $125K a week \u2013 back when tickets started at $15 \u2013 and set Vegas attendance records, including the most consecutive sellout performances (58).<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>During his Las Vegas residencies, Elvis lived in the 30th-floor Imperial Suite, a 5,000 square-foot spread where he usually retired with the night\u2019s VIP guests after his midnight performances. (Regulars included fellow singer Tom Jones and actors Jack Lord and Lee Majors.) Here, Elvis indulged his peculiarly dangerous habit of shooting defenseless objects \u2013 including TVs, chandeliers, and light switches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Imperial Suite was demolished in 1995 to create three VIP \u201csky villas.\u201d In 2012, the hotel changed hands and became the Las Vegas Hotel, and then in 2014, the Westgate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After actor Austin Butler won a Golden Globe on Tuesday night, what happened in Vegas was a celebration fit for a king. 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