Tuesday, June 01, 2004
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NORM: Makeover holds big stakes for Neil
Jamie-Lynn DiScala checks out pool party.
Vince Neil to get new look.
Jamie Foxx spotted at the Palms.
Marshall Faulk has weekend fun.
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Rocker Vince Neil begins a three-month extreme makeover today for MTV's version of "The Swan."
"I call him `The Mallard,' " said Lia Gerardini, Neil's girlfriend.
At 43, the frontman of the legendary rock group Motley Crue is the first rock star to join the reality re-do craze.
The new Neil will be revealed August 28, after seeing a lot of a trainer, a plastic surgeon and a lifestyle counselor.
Starting today, he consults with a plastic surgeon and cuts out drinking.
"It's not just for me, but for my career," said Neil, who is in negotiations to reunite in January with Motley Crue, if he and former drummer Tommy Lee can get past their feud.
MTV is billing the show as "The Remaking of Vince Neil." At stake for Neil is a recording contract and the opportunity to work with a top producer and a recording artist.
Neil, a Las Vegas resident on and off since the 1990s, was one of the few who emerged from The WB's celebrity-based reality show "The Surreal Life" with some dignity intact.
A movie about the band is also being discussed.
The Scene and Heard
Former KXNT-AM, 840 morning show host Jeff Katz returns to the Las Vegas airwaves this week. He's sitting in all week for Ernie Brown as host of the nationally syndicated "America At Night" program. Katz, a former Philadelphia cop, left KXNT in late 2001 to join WPHT in Philadelphia. "America at Night" airs from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on KNUU-AM, 970. ...
The New York Times is running a series on the population boom in Las Vegas, where the "promise of new beginnings is regularly put to the test," noting the exodus of 55,000 residents last year. ...
Space cadet of the week: The guy poolside Sunday at the Palms wearing one of those oversized red cowboy hats and a white NASA spacesuit in 90-degree heat. ...
Dierks Bentley, named Best New Artist at the Academy of Country Music Awards show here last week, is shooting a music video today at the Plaza. Las Vegan Hannah Elisabeth will play a retro Vegas stripper in the video. ...
Consumer advocate Michael Geeser is leaving KLAS-TV, Channel 8 next month to join AAA Nevada in Las Vegas as a media spokesman/legislative analyst. He was the consumer advocate at KTNV-TV, Channel 13 for seven years before joining KLAS almost three years ago. ...
Clarification: In Friday's column, Ruby Mazur was credited with creating the Rolling Stones' mouth-and-tongue logo. According to Billboard, Mazur designed the first officially used variation of the tongue. Billboard, in a 1995 article citing Mick Jagger as the source, said the original classic design was done by John Pasch.
Sightings
Jamie-Lynn DiScala, who plays Tony Soprano's daughter Meadow on "The Sopranos," checking out Rehab, the Hard Rock Hotel's Sunday pool party. ... Keyshawn Johnson, the Dallas Cowboys new wide receiver, at Tiger Jam VII's Prince concert on Saturday. ... Actor Joe Pesci, spotted at the Green Valley Ranch Sportsbook on Saturday night. ... At the Palms over the weekend: Jamie Foxx, Jamie Kennedy, Marshall Faulk, Kwame Brown, Dennis Rodman, Paul Pierce and Montreal Canadiens goalie Jose Theodore.
The Punch Line
"So little time and so little to do." -- Oscar Levant
Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com.
