Las Vegas Weekly

December 6, 2009 · 8:56 AM

It’s Robin and Robin backstage at the MGM Grand

By Robin Leach

Robin Leach and Robin Williams backstage at MGM Grand on Dec. 5, 2009.

Photo: TVT

It was the final stop as he ended his 80-city Weapons of Self-Destruction Tour. Award-winning comedian and actor Robin Williams had planned an earlier concert date in Las Vegas, but he had to cancel because of open-heart surgery.

Robin talked with me, before his MGM Grand performance last night, about his health issues a little more seriously than his onstage jokes about a cow heart valve being transplanted in his chest, and we’ll have the full story right here at VegasDeLuxe.com tomorrow.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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