During Lewis Black’s show at The Mirage on Friday night, he told a 10-minute story of following Vince Gill onstage at a USO show. That tale was a wild ride.
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Funny Face: Carrot Top’s stage act a mask of contradictions
This all started with a kindly nun and a simple bell. Sister Benedict was her name, the principal at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Rockledge, Fla., a town of about 25,000 that sits on the state’s east coast, near Cape Canaveral. The town is heavily populated by NASA scientists and engineers who over the years sent American astronauts into orbit and onto the moon. The young son of one of those NASA engineers was Scott Thompson, a diminutive redheaded kid who kept to mostly kept to himself, uninterested in the other uniformed St. Mary’s students.
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Noteworthy: Sandoval as husband material, McCartney recalls radio career, and Handler paints The Colosseum blue
While working the crowd at a gala event, gubernatorial hopeful Brian Sandoval makes Guy Smiley look like the Luxor sphinx.
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Wayne Newton — Mr. Las Vegas — answers the questions of readers
Prodded by fans, Wayne Newton looks back on his long career and speaks to pranks by Robert Goulet and tantalizingly odd requests made by audience members.
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New face of Monte Carlo includes all the faces of Caliendo
Impressionist Frank Caliendo felt some trepidation as he considered a gig on the Strip, but Dana Carvey said go for it.
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Ten minutes with Chelsea Handler is better than no minutes with Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler has had one guest she describes as “the end of society as we know it,” and it is not a Kardashian.
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A lesson in information dissemination, with a little Twitter and a lot of Agassi
A tweet sent by Sports Illustrated actually tipped off other news organizations, including “60 Minutes” and Katie Couric, about Andre Agassi’s meth use.
Of tanking, drugs and ‘Slim’: In ‘Open,’ Andre Agassi beats the odds
Not many celebrities can own up to using crystal meth, giving up in big matches and failing drug tests with no penalty. But Andre Agassi is not a typical celebrity.
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Life in the Limelight: Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton is going to tell a story, and it’s not about his playing poker with Sinatra, recording with Bobby Darin or counseling Elvis about his divorce. It’s about the day he realized Vegas was home. It speaks volumes about Newton, 50 years a Vegas showman and now headlining through April in what might be his final residency in Las Vegas, the autobiographical “Once Before I Go” at the Tropicana.
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Buchanan was one of the city’s truly flamboyant characters
James “Bucky” Buchanan was a big-game hunter who had starred in the reality series “Las Vegas Law” and represented many high-profile clients.
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