“Candy World” is a tease to what might be a resident production at Light by the end of the year.
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David Copperfield performed a historic re-appearing act, returning the missing 15th star to the original Star-Spangled Banner.
Redfoo has signed up as an assistant coach (and party purveyor) for the expansion Vegas Rollers pro tennis team.
Former Las Vegas Strip resident headliner Britney Spears has left the health care clinic she entered in January and was spotted at a luxury resort with her boyfriend, Sam Asghari, over the Easter holiday weekend.
The Kats! Bureau at this writing is Stirling Club at Turnberry Place’s March Mania party. I’m writing, watching college hoops and enjoying the fizzywater at club’s lounge. The wood flooring and furniture are new and the place is coming together nicely ahead of its formal opening. No date set but that should happen in June.
As recently as mid-January, co-producer and show host Michael Franzese said he was targeting an April return to the stage at the Plaza.
On this trip, George “Daddy Kats” Katsilometes and I have learned to make yule logs, purchased some fine local art, met some dignitaries and cruised the scene in a 1967 Buick LeSabre convertible — all in one day.
As the holidays arrive, so does a tiny gift. The Grays have welcomed Nixon Storm Gray to their brood. The couple adopted the little girl, their third child after sons Nash Danger, 7, and Knox Thunder, 3.
Steve Reineke, hired by the N.Y. Pops after an exhaustive two-year search, learned of Frankie Moreno through violin great Joshua Bell (who was seated a half-dozen seats to my right at Friday’s show).
Oscar Goodman asks, “How are you still alive?” Michael Franzese answers, “Because most of the people who want to see me dead are dead, or they’re in prison.” The show is on.
You might remember, or not, that when Criss Angel opened at Luxor in October 2008, he was dating Holly Madison. She soon took over the Bo Peep character in “Peep Show” — at Planet Hollywood.
Sam Lewis is asked what her late husband would have thought of having his personal items sold to the public. The person who knew Jerry Lewis best knew that answer.
Joe Jackson, 89, who has a home in Las Vegas, is reported to be in grave condition, as sources have reported to multiple media outlets.
“Bandstand,” the Broadway-fashioned show conceived in Las Vegas that actually made it to Broadway, lives on.
“Absinthe” has just signed a contract extension with Caesars Palace to to perform at that hotel for at least two more years.