Sunday, February 22, 2004
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NORM: It girl Paris has lots on her plate

Paris Hilton's new reality show brings her to Las Vegas. Leonardo DiCaprio places big order. Terrell Davis buys some pricey cognac. Mark Wahlberg hits the links.

Paris Hilton's next reality show, a road trip in a Winnebago almost as big as Arkansas, will include a party stop in Las Vegas.

She and her sidekick, Nicole Richie, who starred in "The Simple Life," will cruise across the country, stopping to stay in strangers' homes.

"We're going to start in Miami. We're going to New Orleans, Arizona and Las Vegas, the funnest city in America," Hilton said Saturday, during an interview at Canyon Ranch SpaClub at The Venetian.

In town for the second anniversary bash at Light, the Bellagio nightclub, Hilton fielded questions while two Canyon Ranch hairstylists applied lavish blond extensions.

A tsunami of offers have flooded in, many with $50,000 guarantees, since "The Simple Life" was a ratings hit on Fox.

She just completed her first single record. An album is in the works, as well as a book and a "big horror movie."

Her first musical venture is titled "Screwed," she said. "It's about a girl who gets screwed over by a guy. It's like a love song. It's cute; I love it," said Hilton, who turned 23 last week.

The clock is ticking on her whirlwind lifestyle, she said. "I want to have kids in two to four years."

Special delivery

The kitchen at N9NE, the Palms steakhouse, had just shut down late Friday night when a midnight phone call sent chef Barry Dukake back into a high-heat mode.

Palms owner George Maloof was on the telephone to Michael Morton, co-owner of N9NE restaurant with a VIP order: two large chilled shellfish platters, two double rib-eyes, two 2-pound Australian lobsters, two New York sirloins sliced, four garbage salads, two cream corn, two asparagus and two skinny fries.

Leonardo DiCaprio and his posse, including Tobey Maguire, had just arrived on a private jet and wanted their favorites from N9NE.

Dukake and N9NE exec Gina Boccadoro delivered the special order to the Bellagio by 1 a.m., serving it on Palms china.

The Scene and Heard

The National Enquirer is reporting that Siegfried Fischbacher took a recent trip to Havana, staying there almost two weeks.

Sightings

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, sending a buzz through the crowd at Elton John's show (Caesars Palace) Saturday. ... The band Linkin Park, getting tattoos until 3 a.m. at the Hart & Huntington Tattoo Salon in the Palms on Friday. ... Mark Wahlberg and pals, golfing at Shadow Creek golf course on Saturday. ... Retired Denver Broncos great Terrell Davis, buying two bottles of Louis XIII cognac at $3,000 each for the entire VIP section he reserved at OPM (Forum Shops at Caesars) on Friday night. ... Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi, dining at the House of Blues Foundation Room (Mandalay Bay) on Friday. ... "American Pie" star Jason Biggs at Tabu (MGM Grand) after taking in the John Mayer concert (Mandalay Bay) on Friday. ... Designer Tommy Hilfiger and his son, checking out Lance Burton's magic show at the Monte Carlo.

The Punch Line

"I do like to walk into parties with all my prettiest friends. My grandmom told my mother, and I 'it's better to walk in with a bouquet of roses than be a rose with a bunch of weeds." -- Paris Hilton, in her proposed book, "Tongue in Chic: Paris Hilton's Confessions of an Heiress."

Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com.