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Friday, October 08, 1999
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COLUMN: NORM!
Cheerleaders and Harleys make Japanese group's visit perfect
A Japanese tour group couldn't book an NFL game in Las Vegas, so arrangements were made for the next best thing.
How do you say, hip, hip, hooray in Japanese?
A dozen San Diego Chargers cheerleaders were flown in to spend five days accompanying a 72-member Japanese tour group here last week.
The cheer unit escorted the visitors to a number of Las Vegas sites before concluding the week with a buffet dinner (steak and chicken), a photo op and three dance routines at the Harley-Davidson Cafe.
"They were so excited to see American-themed things like the cheerleaders and the Harley and movie stars on their Harleys," said Robert Morganti, sales manager for the restaurant. "Cameras were clicking all night.''
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The Scene and Heard: The Hard Rock Hotel will be rocking next week with VH1's Fairway to Heaven celebrity golf tournament set for Oct. 18 at the Las Vegas Country Club. The celebfest will include a top 18 video countdown hosted by Madison Michelle, a "Skin Deep" segment of the most beautiful faces in pop and rock music hosted by Rashumba and a Weird Al Yankovic concert. Joe Pesci, Roseanne, Vince Neil of Motley Crue, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi and Lisa Loeb are among the two dozen celebrity invites. ... Not your everyday road trip: The entire cast of Treasure Island's "Mystere," all 72 plus an additional 64 support personnel, are busing to Los Angeles on Sunday to take in a performance of "Dralion" by a sister Cirque du Soleil troupe at the Santa Monica Pier. They have tickets to Monday's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," where they again will watch "Dralion" performers. ... More proof that the rich truly are different: Saks Fifth Avenue in Denver closed down early last Saturday to allow Celine Dion to go on a private shopping spree. She rang up a $10,000 clothing tab. And Garth Brooks reportedly is house-hunting in Colorado, where published reports have him checking out a $5.5 million, 21,000-square-foot mountain-view mansion near the hamlet of Hygiene. The mansion, which has a 14-car garage, was built by the late Steve Ballard, a two-time winner of the Colorado Lottery. ... Norm de plumes: Local veterinarian Tom Hartgrove, a longtime supporter of the adopt-a-burro program, has named his two adoptees Milton Burro and Marl Burro.
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Sightings: Whoopi Goldberg, whooping it up at the Bellagio on Wednesday night after winning $2,000 on the dollar slots; Ray Charles, at Ruth's Chris Steak House on West Flamingo Road, a favored late-night hot spot for many big-name performers; golf addict Hal Linden, who plays Billy Flynn in Mandalay Bay's "Chicago" production, chasing birdies this week at Legacy Golf Club. He's a member there.
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The Punch Line: "I don't even know what street Canada is on."-- Gangster Al Capone.
Norm! appears in the Review-Journal Friday, Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Call Norm! at (702) 383-0244 or e-mail him at Norm@lasvegas.com.
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