STRIP SCRIBBLES
*It’s a huge Vegas night on the PBS network with both Celine Dion and Rita Rudner starring back-to-back with specials.
Harrah’s headliner, comedienne Rita Rudner kicks off the Vegas night at 8 p.m. with her Live in Las Vegas special and then at 9:15 p.m. Celine Dion follows with A New Day special. It commemorates her historic five-year sold-out run of record-breaking spectaculars at Caesars Palace. The HD special highlights 18 songs in the 90-minute show filmed in its entirety back in January of last year. More than 3 million people saw her memorable production at The Colosseum theater since it began there in March 2003. Both TV specials are part of the new pledge membership drive from the viewer supported Vegas PBS affiliate, which has a $170,000 fund-raising goal this month.
*Perky provocative Pamela, Princess of Pulchritude, Anderson wants to top her 83-day long third marriage that began here in Vegas! She’s shooting a new TV reality series Girl on the Loose, which debuts in August.
Pamela married porn-film-maker and poker player Rick Salomon at The Mirage in between her Beauty of Magic shows with magician Hans Klok at Planet Hollywood Resort last summer. It ended in an annulment after they split up permanently that followed several interim breakups. Says Pamela: “I’m not going to rule out a wedding while we are filming. There are men around and sometimes I can’t control myself. The show will reveal everything about my love life.”
*Say its not true! Would-be-actor, would-be-rap-artist, would-be-Mr. Brit-again, yes Fed-Ex is back in the news again!
He has been named Father of the Year and will be honored for his parenting skills at the Privé nightclub inside the Planet Hollywood Resort at a special Father’s Day soiree next Friday, June 13 as midnight strikes! I’m simply speechless, except to say great publicity stunt. He gets paid to make the appearance so whatever title he wins is simply a bonus to the paycheck!
*Our hometown hero world-boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has taken off for a mini-vacation in the Bahamas where he discovered our Pure nightclub folks have the Aura nightclub at the Atlantis resort casino.
Faster than you can say knockout he ordered up the Laurent Perrier rose champagne and Patron Silver that he drinks when he’s partying here. Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Patrick Surtain was in his party of friends.
*Happy to tell you that our Best in Show dog-adoption rally with John O’Hurley, Louie Anderson, Zowie Bowie and yours truly was a huge success with 64 out of the 65 dogs being adopted at the Orleans Arena. The one remaining Jack Russell was placed in a temporary foster home, but our news anchor Denise Valdez will show the terrier this morning on local TV with a special appeal to make it a 100 percent success story! It was so sad to hear the Animal Foundation horror stories of over 100 dogs a week now being abandoned and let loose as families move out because of home foreclosures during the economic turndown!
*Message in the giant fortune cookie served with dessert at Tao Asian bistro in The Venetian: “Hold onto your secrets but release your inhibitions.” That could almost be the next Vegas advertising slogan!
*First came two unbelievable smash-hit Walt Disney movies directed by my pal Kenny Ortega, who masterminded the Sirens show at TI. Now comes the touring stage adaptation of his High School Musical. It opens a five-night run this evening at Planet Hollywood Resort’s Theater for the Performing Arts and you can bet hundreds of screaming tweenagers will drag their parents along to see who gets to play Zac Efron in the role that shot him to super hunk stardom from the film versions. It’s a contemporary musical comedy-themed on the Romeo and Juliet story about a popular high school basketball star and a shy academically gifted newcomer who discover they share a secret passion for singing. There’s a battle between the jocks and the brainiacs as the drama club members hatch convoluted plots to separate the twosome and keep them off-stage. Call it a phenomenon akin to the fan worship of Presley and The Beatles, but this is Hannah Montana type frenzy all over again.