I note an unfortunate similarity between the new Matt Goss billboard and the one for Criss Angel’s Believe. As with many things about Believe, the show’s billboard is an issue that has become a sort of local’s joke. Why? Angel’s billboard has gone through a couple versions that share a quality that Dr. Freud could [...]
I am working on a deadline today. But I wanted to share with you an amazing story by Mike Weatherford from Review-Journal. Weatherford tells the back story of Rachel Jessee only slightly better known as “Scarlett — Princess of Magic” (formerly performing at Riviera and formerly performing at V theater at the mall at Planet [...]
Last night Marie Osmond returned to performing in the Donny & Marie show at Flamingo for the first time since her son’s tragic death. Still, this was for many tourists just a Tuesday in Vegas, and some entering the theater had no idea what an emotional night this was for Osmond. The evening was a [...]
A recent flood of stories appeared based, as far as I can tell, on this In Touch item which claims to exclusively reveal that Peepshow star Holly Madison is moving to Los Angeles to live with some rock star. I don’t care who Madison is dating (oh, unless it is Bob Dylan), but she has [...]
Siegfried & Roy were honored yesterday at the closing ceremony of the World Magic Seminar. Penn’s Tweet about the occasion: “Honoring Siegfried & Roy. Criss Angel, Lance Burton, P&T all speechified. S&R invented an art form. Wow. Roy is so wonderfully bugnutty.” Actually, Penn kind of looks like he is keeping a steadying hand on [...]
There is nothing to write in the face of the grief Marie Osmond and her family must be feeling now. And, I have nothing but sorrow in my heart for her situation. It has been almost a year, exactly, since I interviewed Marie Osmond backstage at Flamingo. The two themes that hauntingly came through in [...]
I was talking to two tourists from Seattle at the opening of “Viva Elvis” at CityCenter. Their primary reason for coming to Vegas is to see shows. And, I was amazed to discover that they had never bought discounted tickets because they did not know such things existed. This couple had been coming to Vegas [...]
Honestly, yesterday I did not make two calls I should have made. I should have checked on the horrible and tragic goings on with Wayne Newton who has been dealing with family misfortune on an epic scale even as process servers show up to his house to evict him. The Kats Report made the calls [...]
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics opens its entry describing the form with repeated end words for all six lines though in varying order across six stanzas as well other rules that depend on the particular approach to the sestina with “The most complicated of the verseforms initiated by the troubadours.” The entry goes [...]
On the red carpet for “Viva Elvis,” Perez Hilton told me he had heard Criss Angel can not be fired by contract. I have heard similar things. But any contract can be bought out. And, anyone who runs afoul of casino regulators is going to be out of a resort showroom. And, a show that [...]
