Friday 2 March 2012

KOOL TV BABE OF THE WEEK: 'LAS VEGAS's VANESSA MARCIL

High stakes gambling has never been more compulsive and glamorous than when in the presence of LAS VEGAS star Vanessa Marcil. Images: NBC UNIVERSAL. 

By no means a classic American series, the glossy, colourful and sometimes (well, a lot) trashy NBC UNIVERSAL hit LAS VEGAS-about the lives, loves and adventures of the dedicated and good looking staff and security people of the fictional hotel of the Las Vegas based Monetecito resort and casino, shored up by the gruff lead series star presence of the always excellent actor James Caan- was fun, and certainly a guilty pleasure for my televisual viewing every week in its early seasons, before it lost its story arcs and basically became an out there soap opera.

For me it was especially essential viewing in it's babe factor, with the series having no less than four gorgeous ladies amongst its main cast, including lovely blond model/actress Molly Simms as Caan's quirky, mercurial (often airhead) and exhibitionist "Daddy's Girl" daughter, Delinda, the voluptuous Nikki Cox as Mary Connell, on/off girlfriend to young lead Josh Dushamel's ex-Marine Danny McCoy (currently top eye candy for the ladies and a big star in the hit TRANSFORMERS movie series), and later staff member of the Montecito, British actress and later LOST star Marsha Thomason, looking delectable in her white business suits as crack table boss Nessa Holt, and lastly, and my favourite, the cute and lovely Victoria Marcil as Sam Marquez the waifish, pixi-like, cheeky and sassy character of Sam Marquez, whose primary role at the casino was as uber super concierge to the richest and most powerful gamblers arriving daily through it's spacious lobbies, making sure that they never leave it and spend all their money on its facilities and gambling tables. With Marcil acting as my personal liaison, I certainly never would have left!

Titles (European version): Las Vegas Intro (Season 1) - European Version - YouTube

The character had her occasional dark secrets, and several on and off lovers making re-appearances in her life, but Sam was always loyal and very protective of her friends and major league clients. And as an actress, Marcil was certainly the right gal for the role, possessing sly assertiveness beneath her tiny frame and lots of big time, unobtainable sex appeal in her pat's mission to be the best of the best in her Vegas job- a fantasy cocktail environment of dreams and occasional madness, before it became a bloody CSI weekly crime scene!, where anything can happen and probably will. Inhabiting Sam, I'm sure Miss Marcil's fans will agree with me that there was already a lot of not inconsiderable charm, craftiness (of a positive kind, like a female Artful Dodger) and sex appeal already present with the actress.

Vanessa Marcil with the amiable cast of LAS VEGAS.

Beyond her five season stint on the series, created by film writer Gary Scott Thompson, the lovely Californian actress has since appeared in several long running series including WITHOUT A TRACE, and was last year appearing in the long running US soap opera, GENERAL HOSPITAL, as Brenda Barrett.

KOOL TV hopes to see Miss Marcil in another hit series or film in the not too distant future.

All five seasons of LAS VEGAS are available on DVD. The series is also in re-runs on the UK's SONY ENTERTAINMENT TV channel.

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