拉斯维加斯（2005）（上）

但是麦当劳和汉堡王没有
They ain't got them at McDonald's or Burger King yet,
然而说不定会装上的
but it'll happen probably.
这个 我要说的是我赌博 整个债务
Yeah,I got to the point where I was gambling my whole check
到处借钱 家人 不管谁
and I was borrowing from whoever-- family,whoever--
欠了一屁♥股♥的债
to cover my...cover my butt.
最终没人借给我钱了
And I finally ran out of people to borrow from,
嗯 我可不想我的未婚妻离开我
and,uh,well,I didn't want my fiancée to leave me,
所以我好恐慌 你可能会说
so in a...I guess in a panic,you could say,
我估计没什么办法了
I figured I had no other alternative
只有去抢银行了
other than to rob a bank.
进去对小姐做个暗示
Ran in there and gave the lady a note
她给我钱
and she started handing me money,
我就赶紧离开
and I went running out of there.
我会记得对追出来的人说 原谅我吧
I can remember saying "excuse me"to somebody walking out the door.
不伤害人 做个有良心的抢劫犯
Doesn't hurt to be a nice bank robber.
我现在在等待判决
RANDY: Right now I'm waiting sentencing.
看来真是个可怕的时间 真的是的
It seems that it'd be a really scary time,which it is,
但是我知道等来的判决
but I know that the sentencing I'm waiting on
不会比我已经得到的判决坏到哪里去
could not be as bad as the sentence I was in.
非常感谢 亲爱的朋友
MAN: Thank you very much,my dear friends.
代表凯里.史密斯 萨姆.布特拉 和所有的证人
On behalf of Keely Smith,Sam Butera and all the Witnesses,
这是为你们这些友好的人们的精彩表演
it was wonderful playing for you nice people.
在整个30分钟里 我们会上演另外一场表演
We have another show in exactly 30 minutes.
我们要录制一张新的唱片
We're going to be recording a new album
叫做《撒哈拉小夜班》
which will be called The Sahara Swing Shift.
你已经成为了幸运的观众
And you've been a wonderful audience.
非常高兴 你们这么幸运
We love you for being so nice.
谢谢大家的光临
Thank you for coming to see us.
在50年代一位游客称为
NARRATOR: Beyond what one visitor called the "fabulous,extraordinary madhouse"
‘神话般的特别疯人院’的长街后面 拉斯维加斯在急速增长
of the Strip in the 1950s,Las Vegas was exploding.
每年 成千上万的外来人口蜂拥而至
Each year,thousands of newcomers flocked
来到这蓬勃发展的沙漠之城
to the booming desert city,
先是倍增 然后几乎达到其人口的三倍
first doubling,then nearly tripling its population.
在那十年末 都市圈里居住者12万7千多人
At the end of the decade,the metropolitan area would be home to more than 127,000 people.
大多数游客甚至来不及看街区
Most tourists never even glimpsed the neighborhoods
哪里都是新移♥民♥居住的地方
where all these new residents lived.
他们可能不知道
They likely had no idea
拉斯维加斯需要的做礼拜的房♥子要多于
that Las Vegas claimed more houses of worship per capita
其他任何同等规模的城市
than any other city of equal size
供水系统不堪重负以至于
or that growth had so taxed the water distribution systems
污水被用来浇灌高尔夫的草皮
that sewage effluent was used to keep the golf courses green.
当然啦 每年来拉斯维加斯的数百万人里
And certainly almost none of the millions
没有人来过西区
who passed through Las Vegas each year had ever been to the West Side,
那是个从弗里蒙特街横跨铁路的
a sprawling,squalid neighborhood
不断延伸的肮脏的街区
across the railroad tracks from Fremont Street
住着1.5万黑人
that was home to some 15,000 African Americans.
西拉斯维加斯 西区
WOMAN: West Las Vegas,the West Side,
我从来没见过这样的地方
was like nothing I had ever seen before.
汽车比他们蜗居的房♥子来得大
It was not unusual to see cars almost bigger
是一点不足为奇的
than the very houses they were parked in front of.
这是最隔绝的街区
It was the most segregated neighborhood
我曾经在那里呆过
that I had ever witnessed in my life.
那是规定 如果你是黑人
It was a given if you were African American,
就必须住在铁路的西边
you had to live west of the railroad tracks.
最先一大批黑人
MOEHRING: The first significant numbers of African Americans
是在二战期间来到拉斯维加斯的
came to Las Vegas during World War II
是帮助建造和工作在碱式镁工厂
to help build and work in the Basic Magnesium factory,
那是个军工厂
a defense plant.
有许多白人希望二战一旦结束
There were many white people who hoped that once World War II ended,
就离开这里
they would leave and go someplace else.
然而酒店业 蓬勃发展的长街和市中心
But the hotel industry,the growing strip and downtown,
为剩余劳力创造了许多低收入职位
created lots of low-paying jobs for custodial labor,
女佣 招待员 等等
room maids,waiters and whatever.
因此 讽刺的是 拉斯维加斯的酒店业
And so,ironically,it was the Las Vegas hotel industry
将黑人留了下来
that kept African Americans here.
就像美国的其它城市一样
NARRATOR: Like virtually every other city in the country,
拉斯维加斯严格实行种族隔离
Las Vegas was rigidly segregated.
黑人被压制在
African Americans were relegated
酒店 赌场的最低的职位上
to the lowliest positions in the hotels and casinos,
被禁止惠顾光彩峡谷及长街的大多数地方
and barred from patronizing most every establishment in Glitter Gulch and on the Strip.
即使是城里头挑的黑人演员
Even the black performers who headlined in town
在演出结束后 也被赶出剧场
were shunted out of the showrooms when the curtain came down
实际上是流浪在西区
and effectively exiled to the West Side,
那里肮脏的公♥寓♥住一个晚上
where dingy rooming house accommodations
要15美元
went for as much as $15 a night,
大约要比长街上的平均房♥价贵50%
roughly 50% more than the going rate for a room on the Strip.
SAMMY DAVIS,JR.: ?Must you dance...? ?
那是拉斯维加斯的刺♥激♥
CUNNINGHAM: That was the excitement of Las Vegas.
你可以来一个最低消费两小杯的房♥间秀
You could go to a lounge show for a two-drink minimum,
不仅能看到顶尖的表演
not only see top-notch entertainment,
而且还有可能与弗兰克.西纳特拉作伴
but you might be sitting next to Frank Sinatra.
那是种玩遍赌场的体验
Those were the kinds of experience you could have walking through a casino.
你永远不知道自己会碰上什么
You never knew who you would run into.
那是表演后的事情
That was the thing after the shows--
他们会去休息室
they went to the lounges.
但是黑人演员不行
But the African-American entertainers could not do that.
但是到了1955年
NARRATOR: But in 1955,
种族区分威胁到了赌博的收入
the color line began to threaten gambling profits.
始作俑者是红磨坊
The trouble began with the Moulin Rouge,
它是市里第一家综合度假胜地
the city's first integrated resort,
它通过每晚的第三场演出增加了城市的收入
which upped the ante in town by adding a third nightly show
一下子就从长街拉走了生意
and instantly siphoned off business from the Strip.
那是个美轮美奂的地方
WOMAN: It was a fabulous place.
那是我们经常聚会的地方
That's where we used to gather,
我们和好多人来自城市的这端
and we were joined by a lot of people from this side of town,
事实上 大家都冲着红磨坊来的
in fact,everybody was over at the Moulin Rouge.
它获得了巨大的成功
It was a huge success.
每一晚都拥挤不堪
Every night was packed and jammed.
此时 由于在南方为了争取公民权利的运动方兴未艾
NARRATOR: Meanwhile,as the struggle for civil rights gained force and momentum in the South,
黑人名流开始挑战拉斯维加斯
African-American celebrities
歧视黑人的不平等待遇,
began to challenge Jim Crow in Las Vegas,
呆在酒店里 并且罢演
demanding rooms in the hotels where they played and refusing to perform
直到黑人被允许进来观看
unless black people were allowed in the audience.
? Hey,baby,won't you love me or leave me...? ?
长街的老板们陷于了被动-
NARRATOR: Strip owners were over a barrel--
他们要么接受
they could either concede
要么冒丧失自己最大的亮点的风险
or risk losing some of their biggest attractions.
继续保持赌场人丁兴旺的愿望
The desire to keep the casino crowded
几乎随时都压过种族分离
trumped the color line nearly every time.
然后 在60年代初 当地的有色人种协进会施加了压力
Then,in early 1960,the local NAACP ratcheted up the pressure.
有色人种协进会号♥召在长街游♥行♥
KEY: The NAACP called a march on the Strip
他们通告度假酒店协会
and they notified the Resort Hotel Association
如果他们不希望在国家电视台上看到这场面的话
and if they didn't want to see it on national television,
那就把大门打开
they would open their doors.
酒店协会不想挑起争斗
GREENSPUN: The hotels don't want this fight.
他们不希望这成为全国的头条新闻
They don't want these headlines all over the country.
这座城市是由酒店在经营的
And this town was run by the hotels.
只要他们说行 就摆平了
When they said do,it got done.
在计划抗♥议♥的前一天
NARRATOR: The day before the planned protest,
在红磨坊里 有色人种协进会的成员会见了市长
at the Moulin Rouge,members of the NAACP met with the mayor,
州长以及一组当地的老板
the governor and a group of local businessmen.
通过大约一个小时 他们达成了一项协议
In a matter of hours,they had finalized an agreement
取消限制黑人的法规
to lift the Jim Crow restrictions
包括拉斯维加斯的所有的酒店 餐馆 酒吧
at every hotel,restaurant,bar,casino and showroom
赌场和表演场所
in Las Vegas.
知道吗 回顾往事 人们回过头来
SMITH: You know,in retrospect,people will look back
会记得他们是多么的自♥由♥开放
and remember how liberal they were,
然而实际上当时
but in reality back then
只有极少数白人是站在黑人一边的
there were very few whites standing up with blacks.
有人认为黑人有损生意
There were folks who believed that blacks were bad for business.
但有一点
But the one thing