SPORTS
October 23, 2004 | David Wharton, Times Staff Writer
The man in the mug shot has long hair, a stubbly beard. On the evening of Sept. 21, police say, he drove past the Las Vegas home of entertainers Siegfried & Roy, yelled, "We need to get these ... out of our country," then fired two shotgun blasts. Minutes later, he allegedly returned and opened fire again, blowing a large hole in the front of the residence. The man police say perpetrated these incidents, Cole Ford, who had dropped out of sight five years earlier, quickly went back into hiding.
NEWS
September 4, 2004
Siegfried & Roy -- Articles in various sections of The Times have been in conflict about the weight of the tiger that mauled illusionist Roy Horn on Oct. 3. Times reports have given its weight as 300, 550 and 600 pounds. Siegfried & Roy's publicist and Las Vegas animal control officials said the tiger weighed about 380 pounds.
ENTERTAINMENT
August 31, 2004 | Paul Brownfield, Times Staff Writer
NBC has been promoting the new sitcom "Joey" so heavily I'm beginning to wonder if Joey's got a swift boat in his past. The "Friends" spinoff has long been considered NBC's greatest hope for a new hit sitcom, except then I heard that the network of Donald Trump and "Fear Factor" was doing a cartoon based on the Las Vegas institution Siegfried & Roy. I perked up: Finally, a show about real Americans. And so at 9 tonight NBC trots out "Father of the Pride."
NATIONAL
August 26, 2004 | From Associated Press
The company that produced the Siegfried and Roy magic show said Wednesday that it would not give federal investigators the video of a tiger attack on illusionist Roy Horn to protect the performer's privacy. Feld Entertainment Inc. also said it had offered on several occasions to show video footage of the Oct. 3 attack to the U.S. Department of Agriculture but the agency had not accepted the invitation.
NEWS
October 16, 2003
Re "When a Beast Bites Back," by Paul Brownfield (Oct. 9), about the accident involving magician Roy Horn: I do not believe the comparison to Phil Bronstein's Komodo dragon encounter is accurate. Roy was not mistaken for prey. The phrases "evidently mistook Roy for prey" and "experience the unthinkable... : sympathy for the magician who tempts death" imply that Roy had it coming. But this is entirely untrue. Roy loves those cats as his own children, respects them, learns from them.
NATIONAL
October 15, 2003 | From Times Wire Reports
A 600-pound tiger that nearly killed Roy Horn of the Las Vegas act of Siegfried & Roy has been released from quarantine, Clark County officials said. The 7-year-old white tiger named Montecore was isolated for 10 days to ensure it didn't have rabies, county spokeswoman Stacey Welling said. The animal had been held in isolation at the Mirage hotel-casino since the Oct. 3 attack. The 59-year-old illusionist remained in critical condition.