Sandy Murphy reportedly is in town filming a TV pilot. Photo by Jeff Scheid.
Michael's Restaurant, a fine dining magnet at the Barbary Coast since 1981, is moving to the south end of the Strip.
Michael Gaughan, who today assumes ownership of the South Coast from Boyd Gaming and renamed it South Point, said Tuesday he envisions the move taking place by April or May.
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The new Michael's will be almost a carbon copy of the current eatery, which is known for it's celebrity clientele and top-end menu prices.
"We'll still have 12 booths, four tables in the middle of the room and a party room in the back," he said, adding that the building plans will go to the county for approval next week.
Gaughan said he insisted on keeping the toney restaurant as part of his sale of the Barbary Coast to Harrah's.
He's taking the restaurant staff with him.
"Everybody goes, even the busboys,'' he said.
Michael's will remain open until the move, he said.
FLOWERS JABS GREEN DAY
Killers frontman Brandon Flowers is stirring the pot again. In an interview for The Word magazine, Flowers reportedly took a swipe at the group Green Day. "You have Green Day and American Idiot. Where do they film their DVD? In England. A bunch of kids screaming 'I don't wanna be an American Idiot.' I saw it as a very negative thing towards Americans."
Flowers told the magazine that he deliberately sang in an American accent on the new Killers CD, "Sam's Town," after being criticized for an English-sounding accent on "Hot Fuss," their first album.
He added, "Americans are getting a bad rap right now. ... It's because of the war and everything that's going on. It's understandable, but to an extent it's not fair because we're just people who were born here."
THE SCENE AND HEARD
More movement at KVBC-TV, Channel 3: Mark Nutini, a show director, is out, sources say. The newsroom is in an uproar, I'm told, because he was well respected. His girlfriend, Jamie Ioos, quit as news director about two months ago. ...
"Bareback," the Greg Thompson Productions revue that closed Sunday, has been playing at Harrah's, not the Sahara, as misstated here in Tuesday's column.
SIGHTINGS
Usher, taking in the Hugh Jackman-Christian Bale mystery drama "The Prestige" on Monday night at the Brenden Theatres at the Palms. Earlier he and a buddy were at the 24-hour fitness Agassi Super Sport Gym in Summerlin playing racquet ball and pickup basketball. ... Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney, in town on a fundraising swing that includes a meeting with Steve Wynn to discuss a 2008 presidential bid. I hear former New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani is coming in Monday, looking for financial support for his presidential run. ... New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi, sporting a wrist brace from surgery last week to repair torn ligaments, on the mend Sunday at Jet nightclub (Mirage). ... Scott Baio at The Spa at Green Valley Ranch over the weekend. ... Sandy Murphy, in a suite at The Venetian in recent days. She's been filming a TV pilot, I'm told, with attorneys, Michael Cristalli, who defended her in her 2004 retrial, and Mark Saggese. A film crew was shooting them Monday at CoverEdge Studio on Industrial Road. ... Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, at the 10:30 p.m. performance of "Love" (Mirage) on Monday.
THE PUNCH LINE
"There is an initiative in the state of Nevada to legalize small amounts of marijuana. This is the first time marijuana and initiative has appeared in the same sentence." -- Jay Leno
