Norm? Not inside Rodman's party
South Beach won't be the same after the Worm's soiree
Posted: Saturday January 30, 1999 10:38 AM
SOUTH BEACH (CNN/SI) -- There is something -- always -- about Super Bowl week that goes way beyond the norm, even if the norm isn't playing. Something that transcends football and registers nearly double-digits on the bizarre-meter.
Where does one go to get away? To cleanse the soul and find the real essence of our calling here?
Outside, hundreds press, hungrily, toward the door of a subtle little place on Washington Road in South Beach. A block down, rappers. Two blocks away, nudes on review.
But much of the focus this night is here because His Strangeness, Dennis Rodman, is throwing a party.
Inside, where there is a XXX room and a bondage room among other sideshows, the gender-challenged provide the glitter. The kings and queens of South Beach nightlife provide the bumps and grinds while the gathered media await.
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Suddenly, led by a cowboy with a cardboard box and a 6-foot-3 bodyguard of questionable orientation, he arrives.
Boa'd and dyed, with more unnaturally created holes in his body than the closing scene of Butch Cassidy, the NBA's rebounding king is in his element.
"I'm very internationale," Rodman says. "Sometimes it shocks me. Not many people in the world can do this."
And just when you think not many people in the world would want to, you look around the room and change the odds a little.
Super Bowl week always has been about football and parties. But it took an NBA player and a trendy little South Beach Club called Club Liquid to give it its most bizarre twist this time around.
"Everybody wants to live the life of Dennis Rodman," he explains. "This is what I told Hugh Hefner, 'Pass the torch, it's my turn.'"
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