Posted on: October 10, 2024, 05:55h.
Last updated on: October 10, 2024, 06:05h.
After Las Vegas, and the world, bid a tearful adieu to the Tropicana on Wednesday morning, not all the memories of the imploded icon shared by Vegas notables have been positive.
“I lived at the Tropicana Hotel for four months while we shot Vegas Vacation,” Ethan Embry posted to X/Twitter on Oct. 9. “It was an unlivable environment in 1996.
“Good riddance.”
And just who is Ethan Embry? We asked that, too, after his tweet was first reported on by the Las Vegas Review-Journal Thursday.
It turns out, Embry played Rusty Griswold, the son of Chevy Chase’s character, Clark, in “Vegas Vacation,” back when he was 18.
Embry’s memorable subplot saw his character win multiple cars as jackpots at the former O’Shea’s casino while gambling underage. (He used a fake ID he procured from a Frank Sinatra impersonator emblazoned with the alias “Nick Pappagiorgio.”)
Embry’s Trop dis drew over a million reviews and 332 comments — many of which concurred with Embry’s review but a few of which did not appreciate reading it the morning after the Tropicana was transformed into piles of rubble.
“Wow really?” commented X user @AlexisStevens02. “You must say this? Tropicana was a historical hotel, please shush. Really now … Tacky Ethan. Bye.”
“That place employed thousands of good people over the years,” added @Senteney. “Sorry it didn’t live up to your haughty expectations.”
When @cesarmiles202 posted a photo of Embry enjoying a jacuzzi dip with a bevvy of beautiful, bikini-clad women, pointing out that he seemed “quite happy there,” Embry fired back: “Those are the Tropicana Girls and it was at the Mirage. Even the Tropicana Girls don’t go to the Tropicana.”
Cut to the Chase
The Tropicana wasn’t the only institution Embry freely trashed in the thread.
“Vegas Vacation’s” lead actor, who has developed quite a rep over the decades for unbearable on-set behavior, also caught a piece of his wrath.
When @SkipTrollington wondered if the film took four whole months to film because “Chevy Chase is such an unbelievable asshole,” Embry responded: “I’m sure that didn’t speed things up.”
To @luciandavid33, he said that Chase was never an a-hole to him in particular, but … “Did I see ugly? Yes.”