Bet big and maybe you can win big. But sometimes you can bet small and last eight years on the Strip.
Mike Weatherford
Louie Anderson based much of his comedy career on his large family. But he will spend much of his Thanksgiving on Las Vegas Boulevard, at Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada.
Impressionists tend to bill themselves as men of “1,000 Voices” or variations thereof. Frank Caliendo would need a big billboard to fit, “Man of A Dozen Voices He Does Really Well.”
David Copperfield is talking again. So is his macaw.
Hey, isn’t it our job to pick on Wayne Newton’s singing?
Lily Tomlin slips in and out of her comedic characters at the turn of a phrase. But it didn’t seem to be part of the act when, no sooner had she climbed into her oversized Edith Ann chair, she climbed back out again and headed for some bottled water.
Jeanine Mason is 18 years old. She says she “always wanted for my senior year to take a road trip with my friends.”
Finally, producers with optimism! “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding” will double its number of weekly performances come Dec. 15 when it moves down the hall, from Planet Hollywood to the V Theater in the adjacent mall.
Show producers get it, but they don’t have to like it. The Strip seems full if you crowd around the new Mirage volcano show. But the ticketed shows seem half empty … if they’re lucky.
It seems impossible that Lily Tomlin has never played Las Vegas in the 39 years since the world discovered her on TV’s “Laugh-In.” Then again, she admits that’s mostly her own fault.
If you think it no longer counts for something to be Wayne Newton in this town, think again.
Sandy Hackett says his late father, Buddy, once turned down a chance to be Frank Sinatra’s opening act in Las Vegas.
In a recent issue of Wired magazine, author Nicholas Thompson writes of the “Dead Hand.” It’s a Russian weapons system — still operational, he claims — that could fire back on the United States even after the Soviets had been hit with a nuclear strike.
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