five-person band of musicians who backed up the duo. In the late 1980s, the Landmark's showroom hosted minor acts and was considered small in comparison to other Las Vegas resorts. The Landmark hosted magician Melinda Saxe in a family-friendly magic show, which was initially known as 88 Follies Revue and was renamed Follies Revue '89 the following year before concluding its run. In 1990, the main showroom featured Spellbound, a magic show consisting of two illusionist teams. Dick Foster was the show's director and producer. In popular culture The unfinished tower briefly appears in the 1964 film, Viva Las Vegas. In 1971, Sean Connery and stuntmen rode atop the Landmark's exterior elevator as part of filming for scenes in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever; the tower was among other Las Vegas resorts that stood in as the fictional Whyte House hotel-casino. In the 1980s, the Landmark appeared in the television series Vega$ and Crime Story. In October 1994, the exterior entrance of the Landmark was lit up for one night so it could be used for outdoor shots as the fictional Tangiers casino, featured in the 1995 film, Casino. The Landmark's implosion was filmed for use in director Tim Burton's 1996 film, Mars Attacks!. In the film, the Landmark is portrayed as the fictional Galaxy Hotel, which is destroyed by an alien spaceship. Burton had stayed at the hotel a few times and was upset by the decision to demolish it, so he wanted to immortalize it in his film. A scale model of the Landmark tower was also made for the production of Mars Attacks!. The demolition of the Landmark also appears during the closing credits of the 2003 film, The Cooler. The Lucky 38, a fictional tower casino featured in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas, partially resembles the Landmark. See also Fontainebleau Las Vegas, tallest building in Nevada since 2008; scheduled to open in 2023 after a construction delay Notes References External links Slideshow of Landmark photos Landmark demolition video Footage of the Landmark's implosion used for Mars Attacks! Eyewitness News Las Vegas news coverage KLAS-TV news coverage KSNV news coverage KTNV-TV news coverage Tribute to the Landmark Casinos completed in 1969 Hotel buildings completed in 1969 Hotels established in 1969 1990 disestablishments in Nevada Defunct casinos in the Las Vegas Valley Defunct hotels in the Las Vegas Valley Skyscraper hotels in Winchester, Nevada