For the duration of the early several hours of Roy Horn’s 59th birthday, on Oct. 3, 2003, the performer celebrated with a ritzy, post-clearly show bash at the Mirage in Las Vegas. Some 500 guests dined and danced and marveled at the ice sculpture of a roaring white tiger on its haunches. The soul-patched magician, then a toast of Sin City — along with his personalized and skilled partner, Siegfried Fischbacher — blew out candles on a cake fittingly adorned with small products of massive cats. Revved up, he announced to the crowd: “I’m celebrating and celebrating and celebrating … ”…
