Goldie Hawn performed at the Stardust before hitting it big in Hollywood. The Strip resort, which opened in 1958, closes on Wednesday.
Elvis was a lounge regular, checking out Brendan Bowyer, who was billed as "Ireland's answer to Elvis."
Valerie Perrine and Goldie Hawn stood out on the Stardust's stage long before they hit it big in Hollywood. The long parade of stars who passed through the Stardust since 1958 is almost over.
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While Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme bring down the final curtain tonight in Old Vegas style, the Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball ends an era with a racier punctuation mark.
Record crowds were expected for the final week. The Stardust closes at noon on Wednesday, making way for Boyd Gaming's $1 billion-plus Echelon Place.
Perrine was a lead nude dancer in the Stardust's Lido de Paris in the late 1960s before landing in Hollywood. Within a few years, she had the role as Lenny Bruce's stripper wife in "Lenny" and earned an Academy Award nomination for best actress, playing opposite Dustin Hoffman.
Hawn was the cover model for the Christmas 1967 issue of Stardust News, "a pioneer in direct marketing to frequent hotel guests," according to the new book "The Stardust of Yesterday: Reflections on a Las Vegas Legend," published by Stephens Press.
Not long after leaving Las Vegas, Hawn was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for "Cactus Flower."
THE SCENE AND HEARD
Gennifer Flowers returns to the Las Vegas spotlight on Nov. 9 as the celebrity star of "Bottom's Up" at Fitzgerald's. Flowers, who took her 12-year affair with Bill Clinton public during the 1992 presidential election, is moving back to Las Vegas after six years in New Orleans, where she ran a cabaret. She lived in Las Vegas for three years, often performing cabaret-style here and there, during the late 1990s. ...
Hot spots and Cool Stuff: Ivanka Trump celebrates her 25th birthday at Pure tonight.
SIGHTINGS
Cowboy legend Ty Murray and girlfriend Jewel, checking out the NHRA ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday. Also there: daredevil Robbie Knievel. ... Amazing Johnathan's annual Halloween party drew a big crowd of scary characters Thursday at his warehouse in Henderson. He transformed the building into a mortuary that included a haunted house (with real rats, and I'm not naming names) and a malfunctioning elevator. Carrot Top, Criss Angel, Anthony Cools, Robin Leach and Nathan Burton attended, along with some characters dressed as Bat Girl, the Karate Kid, Rainbow Bright, Little Orphan Annie, a Psychic Tanya imposter and a faux gossip columnist with an eye patch and gray-sprayed temples (Only one trip through the buffet gave you away, David Saxe). ... Clint Holmes, tapping a ceremonial keg Friday at the Hofbrauhaus as an honorary Oktoberfest mayor. Oktoberfest runs through Tuesday. ... Cosmopolitan magazine's 2006 "Bachelor of the Year" Matt Wood of Colorado, spinning heads at Wynn Las Vegas on Thursday at the Lake of Dreams and Wing Lei restaurant. Business cards with cell phone numbers were dropped off left and right, and he tells me his Cosmo e-mail account is jammed with messages beginning with the phrase, "I've never contacted someone like this before, but..."
THE PUNCH LINE
"I'd have to go with the year that I was Liza Minnelli, and I showed up at a party and no one else was in costume.'' -- Illeana Douglas, on her most memorable Halloween.
