Things got a bit crazy during Thursday's "Crazy Girls" show at the Riviera.
Angela Sampras, a former "Crazy Girls" dancer who started a rival show, says she was confronted by management and removed from a booth by security late in the show.
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Sampras said Karen Raider, associate producer for Norbert Aleman's "Crazy Girls," came to the booth and demanded to see her ticket stub.
Raider "grabbed my arm and tried to pull me out of the booth," Sampras stated in an e-mail. Sampras was a performer in the show for most of the 1990s.
Raider's version: "I told her she's a fired dancer and 'you have to go.' Security took them out. She knows she's been eighty-sixed from day one.
"She's just hyping her new show," Raider said in a telephone interview.
Sampras and her husband, Matt Stabile, who was with her, opened their "X" burlesque show at the Flamingo Las Vegas last month. Also with the couple were "X" girl Britney Palmer and comedy magician Nathan Burton.
Sampras said she was told she was eighty-sixed "because I stole their girl and that I copied their numbers! I have never stolen any of their girls. No one owns the dancers; they are not a piece of property or slaves. I have always tried to do everything different from 'Crazy Girls.'
"Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! 'Crazy Girls' is a direct copy of 'Crazy Horse,' " Sampras said.
WRONG NUMBER
Fourteen-year-old Zachary Lozano's cell phone was getting too many calls and burning up too many minutes.
His mother, Angelica, wasn't happy when she changed the battery and found 15 messages on his phone.
As it turns out, it wasn't Zachary's fault, it was mine. Sources were misdialing while trying to call my number. Poor Zachary started getting calls from people such as man-about-continents Robin Leach and local restaurateurs.
When Angelica solved the mystery, Zachary, a drummer in the Silvestri Middle School band, had a question: "Does this mean we get to meet a lot of cool people?"
THE SCENE AND HEARD
Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn's favorite birthday party? It might be the night Elizabeth Taylor surprised Horn during his 50th birthday party at The Mirage. "The doors opened, and there she was," Horn said during a red carpet appearance at Taylor's 75th birthday party on Tuesday at the Ritz-Carlton. The highlight of Horn's birthday came when he and Liz danced. "We both stepped on each other's toes, and she said, 'We better keep our day jobs,' " Horn said. ...
Media notes: The kitchen makeover of local publicist Elaina Bhattacharyya's Spanish Trail home is being featured at 3 p.m. today on HGTV's "Mission: Organization." ...
Barry Berlin, one of the last people to see John Lennon alive, has left What's On magazine after almost 10 years as an account manager.
SIGHTINGS
Don Cheadle, Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth, at Pure nightclub (Caesars Palace) on Thursday for the NBC Heads-Up Poker Challenge gathering. Also there: Ted Forrest, Phil Hellmuth and Chris Ferguson. ... Bette Midler, taking in the 10 p.m. performance of "Phantom -- The Las Vegas Spectacular" (The Venetian) on Thursday. Midler, rumored to be heading for Caesars Palace as Celine Dion's replacement, met the cast and crew and checked out the lavish sets, costumes and special effects. ... Shannon Elizabeth and friends, lunching at Planet Hollywood (Forum Shops at Caesars) on Friday.
THE PUNCH LINE
"Paris Hilton was arrested by police for driving with a suspended license. Paris spent three hours in jail and had 12 conjugal visits." -- Conan O'Brien.
Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com. Find additional sightings and more online at www.normclarke.com.
