Meat & tinsel

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear--c. 1991--when Brooklyn-born demigod Rocky Santiago still trod the boards at the legendary Gaiety Theater--just before Madonna stole him away to be a back-up dancer/boytoy in her forthcoming tour. But, as the dig-dicked blond up next proves, Denise (another impresario of genius) had no shortage of beauties to parade before us--and parade they did at the SRO weekend marathon finale, flocking in from Jersey, LA, Boston, Miami and (above all) Montreal to ravage our hearts and wallets. To our eternal regret, though, all that gaiety--and the primo talent-for-hire that created it--was swept away from Times Square nine years ago last month, a civilization, alas, gone with the wind.