Mike Weatherford
Holly Madison is the star of “Peepshow.” But thanks to reality TV, the openly gay male lead of the topless girlie show was the cast member who was chased down in a supermarket in the very Mormon city of St. George, Utah.
Magician Ariann Black tells audiences that when she was a child, her mom took her to a store to buy her first magic trick. The man behind the counter said, “Magic is for boys, not girls. Why don’t you buy your girl a nice doll?”
Tim Allen and The Walt Disney Company have a lot to thank each other for. But Girls Scouts on the front row?
It sounds great and looks better. Of course. It’s “Vegas! The Show.” It’s over baked and doesn’t understand that sometimes less is more. Of course. It’s “Vegas! The Show.” Either way, it’s true to a city’s entertainment legacy. More important, its heart is in the right place.
The dog days of August will not end before an “America’s Got Talent” act comes to roost on the Strip, or before Donny Osmond finds himself a more worthy opponent for his nightly dance-off with Marie.
“Jubilee!” premiered on July 30, 1981, a few weeks after “Raiders of the Lost Ark” opened at the Fox theater in the Charleston Plaza mall. Depending on your age and point of view, you can use that to say …
The break dancers of Knucklehead Zoo were featured in the movie documentary “Planet B-boy,” had their own show in a Broadway-district theater and received a hero’s welcome in Seoul, Korea.