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Golden Tiki unveils its Frank Marino-replica shrunken head

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Frank Marino with his shrunken head at the Golden Tiki.
Amit Dadlaney
The Baron, Golden Tiki managing partner Branden Powers and Frank Marino, with the latter's shrunken head.

The Baron, Golden Tiki managing partner Branden Powers and Frank Marino, with the latter's shrunken head.

Frank Marino’s name has been in lights all around Las Vegas for three decades now, so it might be natural for the iconic drag performer to get a big head. Sunday night he received the exact opposite when the Golden Tiki unveiled his shrunken-head replica. The knick-knack, which took four weeks to complete, was fashioned in honor of the bar’s first anniversary and is now on display in the kitschy nightspot’s “cabinet of curiosities.” “I’ve been here for 30 years and they’ve given me a street, a star and now a little head,” Marino says.

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