Friday, May 28, 2004
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NORM: Stones' logo artist gets satisfaction
Dancers from ``La Femme'' pose Wednesday after a performance where seven new numbers were performed for the first time since the show's Las Vegas debut in 2001.
Photo by K.M. Cannon.
Ruby Mazur gets call from famed art museum.
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Ruby Mazur, creator of the Rolling Stones' lips-and-tongue logo, received a call most artists only dream about.
A native New Yorker and a Las Vegas resident since 2000, Mazur has been invited by the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to show a retrospective exhibition of his entire collection of paintings.
"That's heavy, man," Mazur said Thursday. The Whitney is considered among the worlds' top contemporary museums.
Las Vegans might get first peek at the exhibition. Mazur not only has a one-man exhibition at Art de Vignettes at the Fashion Show Mall on July 22, but the Whitney might launch the exhibition here, Mazur said.
His Stones' logo was selected in 1971 after Mick Jagger asked Mazur to create it. It made an immediate splash.
"I did it over a weekend and when I took it to his house on Mullholland Drive (in Hollywood), I gave it to him outside by his pool. He got so excited he pushed me, and I fell back into the pool, fully dressed."
The logo remains the Stones' emblem.
"It made me," Mazur said.
He's done more than 3,000 album covers, including childhood pal Billy Joel's "Cold Spring Harbor," Elton John's "Friends," and the soundtrack album cover and artwork for the advertising campaign for "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
The Scene and Heard
Big changes at "La Femme," the sizzling Parisian revue at the MGM Grand. Not only has the show added seven new numbers and several members to an enlarged stage, but the troupe soon will have the first American member in the revue's 53-year history. Auditions are being planned for Los Angeles and another major city, with the new member joining the troupe in late summer. As for the show: With the tweaking, it's gone from a sexy return to Old Vegas roots to THE most sensual act on the Strip. ...
Happy birthday to Flamingo headliner Gladys Knight on the 21st anniversary of her 39th birthday. Talk about your "American Idol." She started singing with a church choir when she was 4 and by 8 she won $2,000 on Ted Mack's "Amateur Hour." ...
For Internet updates on the World Series of Poker go to www.pokerpages.com.
Sightings
Mayor Oscar Goodman, lunching at the Hofbrauhaus on Thursday with 100 members of the Clark County Bar Association. ... Kid Rock, Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride, Toby Keith, Gretchen Wilson, James Otto, Jon Nicholson and Big & Rich, among the stars who showed up/performed at the MuzikMafia jam session in the House of Blues music hall after the 39th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Wednesday. ... LeAnn Rimes, hosting a private after-party at the House of Blues Courtyard restaurant for artists and agents. ... Tiger Woods at Studio 54 (MGM Grand) on Tuesday and Wednesday night.
May I recommend. ...
Cravings, The Mirage's new buffet, is open after an extreme makeover that designer Adam Tihany predicts will forever change the face of the Las Vegas buffet scene. Opens 7 a.m. for breakfast. Weekday lunch, $17.50; dinner, $20.50. Champagne brunch for adults Saturday and Sunday, $20.50.
The Punch Line
"You know you've been here (Las Vegas) too long when you hold your plastic cup up to the ATM machine." -- Reba McEntire, host of the music awards show at Mandalay Bay.
Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com.
