Fun italians organizing ridiculous events

Claire Voyant

Las Vegas - July 4, 2008

 
Joe Jackson & Nelson Sardelli

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Nelson Sardelli comes this

 announcement...On Tuesday, July

15^th, beginning at 11:30 a.m...
 

The non club club F.I.O.R.E. (Fun

 Italians Organizing Ridiculous

 Events) will be celebrating its 4th

 birthday with a luncheon at Ben

 Ardito's Take 1 Nightclub. The

F.I.O.R.E. Presidents (everyone in

this group is a President), would like

 you and friends with good attitude

 to be a part of this event.

Like all of their previous functions, this one promises to be a memorable event. Although we are still open for some brilliant suggestions, we can guarantee that it will be lots of fun - with live music, surprise guest entertainers, dancing, flowers and chocolates for the ladies. All the 50/50 money collected will be given back as prizes, and some other prizes will be given to some lucky participant.

There will be birthday cake. Please plan to attend. It is YOUR club, and that is what makes it great. Bring your wife. Bring your girl friend. Bring them both. With your wife's lawyer, it will make it four right there. The place can seat 180 comfortably. Bring your other friends. The luncheon (buffet style), as always, will be first class and fit for a king. (Here King. Here King.) No host bar.

Ample parking. Indoor plumbing. Doors will open (exclusively for this function) at 11:30 a.m. Spread the word, but please do not forget to

RSVP in an ASAP manner to Nelson and/or Conrad (nsardelli@aol.com and conradvillella@cox.net). Just a minor detail...$25 (twenty-five American bucks) per person. (All the widows of former presidents are F.I.O.R.E. guests.) Take 1, F.I.O.R.E.'s headquarters, is located at 707 E. Fremont St. (on the southeast corner of Fremont and 7^th St.). For questions, call Mr. Sardelli at (702) 646-1813.

And speaking of Nelson Sardelli, on June 28^th, he was one of two Las Vegans to receive the Golden Pillow Award from the International Entertainer School of Las Vegas (we have never heard of it either). The event took place downtown at Take 1 on Fremont and 7^th street.

 Sharing the honor with Sardelli was Joe Jackson, father of Rebbie, Jackie, Jermaine, Tito, Marlon, LaToya, Michael, Randy and Janet Jackson. According to the information we received, the Golden Pillow is made of the old curtains from New York's famed Radio City Music Hall.

As the story goes, when new curtains were installed in 1987, some of the unique fabric was donated to the non-profit International Entertainers School. Sardelli reports that among the other recipients who have been bestowed with the Golden Pillow are Bill Acosta, Ben Affleck, Dennis Bono, Ernest Borgnine, New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, Billy Crystal, Jerry Fink, Mitzi Gaynor, Whoopi Goldberg, Isaac Hayes, James Earl Jones, B.B. King, Jay Leno, Jennifer Lopez, Lou Rawls, Joe Theismann, Alex Trebek, George Wallace (the comedian, not the governor), and Denzel Washington.

Sardelli says that "They must have either run out of true celebrities to honor or they have an enormous amount of gold pillows." In any case, he humbly accepts the honor (and a gold pillow) and states he is happy someone thought enough of him to suggest him as a recipient.