Whoopi’s kind of town, Las Vegas is

Whoopi Goldberg sounds like a Vegas booster on the level of Oscar Goodman. Her reasons are many for loving Vegas. For starters, she enjoys smoking publicly.

"God bless Vegas," says Goldberg, who performs Friday at Treasure Island. "If you really feel it's a bad health risk ... then quit selling them. But see, there's too much money to be made."

She also supports the idea of Vegas strippers. She says so after I casually mention Nicolas Cage was spotted at Girls Girls Girls strip club two weeks ago.

"I'd go to a strip club with Nick Cage," she says.

Many strippers are "putting kids through school" and "taking care of business," Goldberg says. "Who are any of us who don't do it and don't have her life - how can we even make comments about it?"

As for "The View," a lady Review-Journal reader asked me to ask Goldberg three questions, so here are Goldberg's answers:

1. Does she get pressured to wear makeup on "The View"?

"No," she says. "The face she sees is pretty much the face that is. I think it (makeup) is odd, but some people need it."

2. How expensive is her massive shoe collection?

"I have shoes that cost $25 (and) shoes that cost $1,500. I have them predominantly to offset the fact that I don't wear the clothes, because we get all kinds of clothes from different places for the ladies to wear. And I don't really do that, so I just wear my own clothes. I offset it by having the shoes."

3. And why does she love cats so much?

"Because they take care of themselves," she says. "If they're in the mood, they're in the mood. If they're not in the mood, they walk away. They're very honest animals. And when they're pissed, they poop in your shoe."

SPEAKING OF STRIPPING

Vegas native Jenna Jameson - maybe the most famous female porn star ever - returns Saturday to meet fans and sign autographs at Crazy Horse III strip club.

She got her start at the notoriously closed Crazy Horse II, run by different operators.

"I pried my braces off, and I went to work at Crazy Horse II," she says. "I started work so young. It kind of taught me how to be a people person and listen to people."

At Crazy Horse III, she'll even autograph anyone's butt "as long as he washed it," she says.

She lives with Tito Ortiz in Huntington Beach, Calif., but comes back at least once a month.

She always stays at Caesars Palace. Some favorite haunts: pool parties, Drai's after-hours, Wynn-Encore clubs and dayclubs, Sugar Factory and Bare, Mirage's boutique topless pool.

How have I never spotted her at Bare?

"If I was walking around without my top on, people would photograph it, and it would be everywhere," she says. "I hide in the corner and take my top off."

SELF-PROMOTION

I'll be talking about the new video game "Madden NFL '13" at 11 a.m. Thursday on KDWN-AM, 720. I'm planning to award the game three out of four stars. It's released today.

'PARTY ROCK' TENNIS

LMFAO's Redfoo will host a Party Rock tennis tourney Sept. 23-30 at the Darling Tennis Center, part of a $50,000 USTA pro circuit event (PartyRockOpen.com). Redfoo told me about it Monday after I watched him cut tourney commercials at Vegas' main Cox building. He then went to club Marquee to DJ his regular "Party Rock" gig. He told me he once lost a match to Pete Sampras' sister, and he's itching for a rematch.

Doug Elfman's column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Email him at delfman@reviewjournal.com. He blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman.