Mike Weatherford
Can we get that cool-guy TV mentalist to come and explain these Las Vegas mentalists so we can move on?
The cliche is “Don’t give up your day job.” And Kevin Skinner’s? Whether it was empathy, comedy or a likely combination of both, America found it funny to be a chicken catcher. And the day job helped make a million-dollar Cinderella story of the Kentucky singer on “America’s Got Talent.”
The media event to launch the Sapphire Pool was not to be missed, but proved entirely unrevealing. Literally and figuratively.
Barack Obama gave Bette Midler a rapid induction into Las Vegas.
Campaigning for Obama took the entertainer into places off the Strip it might otherwise have taken her a long time to discover.
Is 22 years long enough to go from “pop” to “classic”?
“Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular” trimmed quite a bit of running time from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster “Phantom of the Opera” when it launched in 2006. It already had shed a lot of baggage along the way.
I’m talking to the biggest player in Las Vegas entertainment on the loading dock in back of Luxor, because it’s a place where he can smoke.
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