Freed Vince Neil gets fast food fix
Vince Neil's first request on Friday after serving 10 days in jail?
The Motley Crue frontman wanted fast food, really fast: Two McDonald's quarter pounders with cheese and French fries, reported his girlfriend Alicia Jacobs, entertainment reporter at KSNV-TV, Channel 3.
He was sentenced last month to two weeks in the Clark County Detention Center and two weeks of house arrest for a June driving charge.
Neil, 50, was given early jail release after volunteering for kitchen duties, including 3:30 a.m. wakeup calls to help serve 4 a.m. breakfasts to the 4,000 inmates.
Jacobs said Neil was accompanied to his home by three officers who explained the rules of house arrest.
One of the stipulations, Jacobs said in her Friday report, was that Neil was not permitted to paint the ankle monitor a la Sandy Murphy, who showed up in court during the murder case of casino heir Ted Binion with the tracking device painted to match her outfit.
Jacobs' interview with Neil is airing Monday and Tuesday during the 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts.
A BIG NIGHT
Ray Romano and Brad Garrett and the Motown sounds of Human Nature top the entertainment program at today's Keep Memory Alive Power of Love gala at Bellagio.
Romano and Garrett would get my vote for the funniest duo to play Las Vegas in recent decades. They team up on rare occasions, but when they do, it's the ultimate comedy gold.
Human Nature, the Australian group that opened Aussie tour stops for Michael Jackson, has been a headlining hit at the Imperial Palace since opening there in June 2009.
Erik Gomez figures to be the surprise of the night. The singing sensation was discovered during a talent show for Bellagio employees. He came out of the housekeeping department and amazed with his version of "Con Te Partiro," the Bellagio theme song.
Check it on YouTube.com. Word has it he's on the verge of signing with Sony/BMG.
The sold-out event, a fundraiser for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, will feature a dinner prepared by master chefs José Andrés, Michael Mina, François Payard, Wolfgang Puck and David Robins.
A HISTORY LESSON
Heather Murren, a member of the congressional Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, capped her book signing appearance at Barnes and Noble on Tuesday by reading a passage from a book.
The public is sometimes forgetful, said Murren, a former top Wall Street analyst before moving to Las Vegas with her husband, Jim Murren, now chairman of MGM Resorts International.
"Forgotten by some are the shattering revelations of the Senate Committee's investigation; forgotten the practices and ethics The Street followed and defended when its own sway was undisputed in those good old days."
" We may now need to be reminded what Wall Street was like before Uncle Sam posted a policeman at its door."
She concluded by informing the gathering of 50-60 that the excerpt came from the preface of Ferdinand Pecora's book "Wall Street Under Oath: The Story of Our Modern Moneychangers." Pecora's book came out in 1934, five years after the crash of 1929 that created The Great Depression.
THE PUNCH LINE
Larry King is doing a one-man show across the country. The bad news is that he's the one man. -- David Letterman
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