Stage antics aside, Gaga all business

For all of her outrageous costumes, Lady Gaga is all business once the pyrotechnics end.

Instead of tearing it up after her show at the MGM Grand on Friday, the young star was seen returning to the Palms, where she was staying and working marathon hours in the resort's on-property recording studio.

A VIP host at the Palms tweeted late Friday that he was "working on" getting Lady Gaga at one of the hotel's biggest events of the year, the Midsummer's Night Dream lingerie party.

Word has it she was totally focused on making progress on her recording project.

That's far removed from her onstage persona, the one that pulled on the underwear of a male fan who tossed them on stage during her concert.

It was a monster night for Southern California resident Sam Faubert, who posted the details of the Tom Jones-like role reversal on his Twitter site.

He tweeted that he tossed his underwear on the runway near Lady Gaga before she started singing "Telephone."

"I had written all over it, phone number, email, twitter, you name it," he wrote.

After some banter with Faubert, she said, "These are fabulous!" and added that the night before somebody threw candy to her and she ate it, he tweeted.

"But I can't really eat underwear," she said, before biting them.

She wasn't finished. When she started singing "Telephone," she pulled them on and kept them on for three songs, including "Speechless" and "You and I."

JOLIE'S VEGAS DEBUT

Angelina Jolie's Las Vegas connections emerge in a new unauthorized biography by Andrew Morton, best known for his books about Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky and Tom Cruise.

She made her film debut at age 5 in a gambler movie titled "Lookin' to Get Out," which was shot on location in Las Vegas in the summer and fall of 1980.

It was something of a family affair. Angelina's father, Jon Voight, and mother, Marcheline, were in the film, which was directed by Hal Ashby. Five years earlier, Ashby had directed "Shampoo," co-starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn.

Marcheline had a cameo as a girl in a Jeep. While she was stopped at a stoplight, a white Rolls Royce pulls up and the driver (Voight) playfully asks if she will marry him.

"Not a chance," said Marcheline's character.

Angelina played the lovechild of co-stars Voight and Ann-Margret . Voight doesn't realize until the end of the movie that he is the girl's biological father.

Angelina had often visited her grandfather Rolland Bertrand in Las Vegas, where he owned a Little King delicatessen in the early 1980s with his second wife, Elke. He died of cancer at age 61 in April 1985.

Marcheline died of ovarian cancer in 2007 at age 56.

GOSS LANDS GRAND GIG

Caesars Palace headliner Matt Goss announced to his fans on Saturday that he's performing Oct.19 at Royal Albert Hall, London's fabled music venue.

It caused so much excitement in the U.K. that the former British pop star's website melted down before he could break the news.

It's a dream come true for Goss, who formed the duo Bros with his twin brother, Luke.

Goss told Las Vegas freelancer Julia Buckley of the Twitter site Vegas Chatter that when he was in Bros, "I hung out with Liza Minnelli. I remember Liza sang to me and (Pet Shop Boy) Neil Tennant at Ronnie Scott's, then we went to see Sammy (Davis), Frank (Sinatra) and Liza play the Royal Albert Hall. It was an incredible night."

SIGHTINGS

In town Friday night: Paris Hilton, at Lady Gaga's show with boyfriend Cy Waits; Kim Kardashian, Molly Sims, and Rob Thomas, at Tao (Venetian); NBA star Paul Pierce at Vanity (Hard Rock Hotel) and Amanda Righetti of "The Mentalist," at the Hard Rock Hotel. Also at Lady Gaga's show: many Miss Universe contestants, including Miss USA Rima Fakih. At Lavo: famed music producer Jimmy Iovine.

THE PUNCH LINE

"A farmer in Idaho unknowingly watered and fertilized more than 300 marijuana plants. He should have realized something was up when his alarm went off and his rooster was like 'Bro, I'm trying to sleep over here!' " -- Jimmy Fallon

Norm Clarke can be reached at (702) 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com. Find additional sightings and more online at www.normclarke.com.