The wisecracking safecrackers of "Ocean's Thirteen" return this week for some unfinished business.
Most of the cast from the 2001 "Ocean's Eleven" remake and "Ocean's Twelve" arrive today for the first of two Las Vegas shoots.
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In town for film scenes at McCarran International Airport and Bellagio are George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Carl Reiner and new addition Ellen Barkin.
If Angelina Jolie is joining Pitt, no one's saying, but the new mom may be ready for a Vegas vacation.
Missing from the lineup will be Julia Roberts, Clooney's love interest in the first two movies, and "Ocean's Twelve" co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones, who played an investigator out to nab them in Europe.
A second shoot is scheduled in Las Vegas for September. The Stephen Soderberg-directed film is to be released next summer.
Producer Jerry Weintraub has hired Bernie Yuman, longtime manager of Siegfried & Roy, to represent the film for the Las Vegas shoot.
Yuman said that he met Weintraub more than a decade ago when Weintraub invited Siegfried & Roy to participate in "Vegas Vacation."
"We made the deal (on 'Ocean's Thirteen') and we've talked almost every day since," Yuman said.
THE SCENE AND HEARD
PBS is broadcasting "An Evening With Clint Holmes: Live in Las Vegas" at 8 p.m. Monday on Las Vegas affiliate KLVX, Channel 10. It was filmed at Harrah's in March with a nine-camera PBS crew. Accompanying Holmes and performing is pianist Roger Williams. ...
If you attended the opening of Caesars Palace on Aug. 5, 1966, the celebrity sightings at Andy Williams' show in the 980-seat Circus Maximus Showroom would have included: boxing greats Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey, Ed Sullivan, actors John Wayne, Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn and a 20-something, starry-eyed kid in the back row named Steve Wynn. ...
Gordie Brown returned Friday from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he did a private show for businessmen on a cruise liner on the Black Sea. He opens in mid-October at the new showroom that's being built at The Venetian, next to the Blue Man Group Theatre. ...
Poker legend Doyle Brunson offered a postscript to last week's item here about besting Bobby Baldwin's four jacks with a royal flush. It wasn't the first time. "The only two royal flushes in my life were against Bobby Baldwin," said Brunson, the 1975 and 1976 World Series of Poker main event champ. ...
SIGHTINGS
Jerry Seinfeld, lunching with associates Saturday at Wolfgang Puck's Chinois (Forum Shops at Caesars). ... Barkin, walking through the Bellagio on Friday. ... Mike Tyson, in the crowd at Tryst (Wynn) on Friday. ... Coach Pat Riley of the NBA champion Miami Heat, and his wife, Chris, at Wynn. ... A man, after sitting on top the giant golden lion in front of the MGM Grand for hours, being talked down by security near dawn Saturday. ... Flamingo headliner Toni Braxton, plopping down on Danny Gans' lap during her opening night show on Thursday while singing. They met last year when she attended Gans' show at The Mirage. She cleared it, I'm told, with Gans' wife, Julie, before the show.
THE PUNCH LINE
"Ellen, I've always been a moral man. But my resolve is melting in the light of your blinding smile." -- Wayne Newton, playing himself in "Vegas Vacation," while hitting on Ellen Griswold (Beverly D'Angelo)
