Roy Horn Makes Rare Public Appearance

By Stephen M. Silverman

Thursday August 26, 2004 08:00 AM EDT

Roy Horn

SONIA MOSKOWITZ/GLOBE

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Roy Horn made a rare public appearance on the Las Vegas Strip on Tuesday night, flashing a thumbs-up from his wheelchair at Havana Night Club, a Cuban revue he and partner Siegfried Fischbacher are co-producing, reports the Associated Press.

"He stayed for the whole show and loved it," Dave Kirvin, a spokesman for Siegfried & Roy said Wednesday, adding that Horn met with cast members after the previous evening's performance.

Horn, 59, returned to Las Vegas last weekend from Denver, where he spent two weeks at Craig Hospital, a rehabilitation center for stroke and trauma victims. There have been no details about his treatment there.

Horn suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed after a near-fatal mauling by a trained white tiger during a live performance Oct. 3 at The Mirage hotel-casino. The attack forced an end to the long-running Siegfried & Roy show.

As was revealed earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is investigating the tiger incident, has been seeking to obtain a video of the fateful performance, except Feld Entertainment, the company that produced the Siegfried & Roy act, reportedly is refusing to release it.

Siegfried & Roy also are involved in a new computer-animated weekly series, Father of the Pride, that debuts next week on NBC.