Saturday, December 04, 2004
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NORM: Spears visits amid pregnancy rumors
Britney Spears: Baby or not, here she comes.
George Carlin rants at MGM finale.
Brad Paisley has alien encounter.
Toby Keith goes for a bull ride.
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Britney Spears returns to the scene of her over-in-hours marriage amid speculation that she's expecting.
The 23-year-old pop star will be a presenter Tuesday at the Billboard awards set to air live on Fox from the MGM Grand Garden.
Her last visit gave new meaning to short honeymoon. Her 5 a.m. quickie marriage to childhood pal Jason Alexander on Jan. 3 hit the skids by sunset, ending 55 hours later in an annulment.
"Everything was great for the first 10 hours," David Letterman cracked. "Then they grew apart."
Rumors of pregnancy have swirled since her Sept. 18 marriage to dancer Kevin Federline. But Spears' rep Leslie Sloane Zelnick told a New York newspaper this week: "It is absolutely not true. I can tell you she is not pregnant."
Dark Carlin
Comedian George Carlin ended his MGM Grand relationship in a blaze of gory the other night.
Holding back none of his nothing's-sacred angst, Carlin finished his four-year run at the hotel Wednesday with some of his darkest material.
Riffs included suicides and beheadings.
Near the end, he made it clear he couldn't wait to get out of "this (expletive) hotel" and Las Vegas.
He told the crowd of 700 he was looking forward to going back East "where the real people are."
He added, "People who go to Las Vegas, you've got to question their (expletive) intellect to start with. Traveling hundreds and thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of (expletive) moronic. That's what I'm always getting here is these kind of (expletive) people with very limited intellects."
When a female in the audience hollered something that sounded like "stop degrading us," Carlin fired back, "Thank you very much, whatever that was. I hope it was positive; if not, well (expletive) me," using slang for oral sex.
Carlin is moving to the Stardust in February after a falling out with the MGM.
The Scene and Heard
Country star Brad Paisley is a Trekkie from way back. But never in a million years did he expect to see Klingons replace his band. It happened at Friday's sound check at the Las Vegas Hilton. Paisley was distracted for a minute, and when he turned to his band, he found three Klingons, a Borg and a Ferengi from the Hilton's Star Trek: The Experience, and two members of the Aussie Angels topless revue. ...
The NFR's 50th Miss Rodeo America contest wraps up at 11:30 a.m. today with a near-sellout event at The Orleans showroom. ...
Clarifying Friday's Barry Manilow item: Tickets for his June concert at Mandalay Bay went for $45, $75 and $125.
Sightings
Country star Toby Keith, riding the mechanical bull at Gilley's (Frontier) in the wee hours Friday. Keith performed for hours with Gilley's house bands as well as Ricochet and Darryl Singletary. ... New York Yankees manager Joe Torre and Baltimore Orioles manager Lee Mazzilli, having dinner at Michael's (Barbary Coast) on Wednesday night, with funny guy Leslie Nielsen at another table. ... Retired boxing great Roberto Duran, at Mandalay Bay, site of Saturday's fight between Jose Luis Castillo and Joel Casamayor.
The Punch Line
"Forget red and orange, I want to see some green." -- Jay Leno, on Tom Ridge's decision to leave his Homeland Security job.
Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com.
