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Paris Hilton Continues Love Affair With Vegas & Criss Angel; Rodman Sells Himself on eBay
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
In This Issue:Surprise, surprise: Paris Hilton is on her way
back to Vegas, and is coming for Criss
Angel. Bid on a wild night
with Dennis Rodman, who is
putting himself up for auction on
eBay.
Nathan Burton
saws 'Will and
Grace' actress Megan Mullally in
half!
Find out who will be representing Vegas on Bravo's 'Top
Chef.'
LEFT: Check out Paris' bling-bling watch George Maloof gave to her. RIGHT: Paris and brief-beau James Leate.
The ultimate party princess Paris Hilton heads back here tomorrow afternoon and this time she's planning to stay until Halloween. Five nights in Sin City right through All Hallows Eve! Ah, we'll all be burning the midnight oil! This past weekend's two-day visit for Paris (click here for our Monday coverage) extended into 4-days before she returned home to Hollywood on a private plane 7PM Monday night. Scandalous stories about her 5AM, Sunday morning steamy smooch session with magician Criss Angel in a very private area of the Empire Ballroom have begun circulating around town. She'd originally flown in with new model boyfriend James Leate from New York for her best girlfriend Kim Kardashian's 25th birthday party at TAO. But he must have become history when she and Criss hit it off at JET 24-hours-later, and it was their pre-dawn tryst at Empire that caused her to stay an extra 48-hours with two late night dance stops at Body English in the Hard Rock. She's expected to be out on the town all weekend again, through Tuesday night, with her new lip-locked love mate magic man!!!
Paris spends "quality time" with 'Mindfreak' magician Criss Angel, who she'll be with again this weekend.
THE WORM FOR SALE
All-around bad boy Dennis "The Worm" Rodman is offering himself to you for a wild night.
It might just be the most unusual showbiz offer in eBay's history. The on-line auction house is now hosting a wild and wacky offer from basketball's bad boy Dennis Rodman, who arrives in Vegas this weekend to celebrate Halloween in scandalous and shocking style. He's offering himself to you and, if you like, two of your friends, for a night on the town. He'll treat you to dinner and then take you off to the Scores topless club for the decadent dancing. He's OK'd you taking photos of everything that goes on through the night, so you have the ultimate souvenir of whatever saucy shenanigans you find yourself in. If it's instant romance, you can also have instant marriage and a divorce by dawn!! He's also willing to give you an autographed Chicago Bulls jersey for the final keepsake! Sounds like the perfect bachelorette party and since it'll take place right here you just know Luxe Life swill have every intimate detail of Dennis' dilly-dallying!
CUT IN HALF!
LEFT: Magician Nathan Burton and actress Megan Mullally. RIGHT: Burton and "assistants."
'Will and Grace' actress Megan Mullally landed her own TV talk show and promptly booked Vegas magician Nathan Burton to cut her in half, and NBC's lawyers and top executives insisted on "standing watch over her" to ensure nothing went wrong. "They couldn't believe that I'd chopped her in half," Nathan told Luxe Life. "They wanted her back in one piece as fast as possible. They were very protective, thinking it was actually happening right before their eyes. They were really worried the electric buzz saw would hurt her skin!! But everything was safe and OK. After all, I am the magician." For Megan's talk show, Nathan made her and 'The OC''s Peter Gallagher appear to start the opening and then, later, he performed several other illusions in his own segment. Earlier this summer, Nathan gained national recognition as the most featured magician on NBC's 'America's Got Talent.' He performed more than any other competitor and was even brought back after being voted off. He made host Regis Philbin appear wearing a hot-pink corset, escaped from the "Microwave of Death" and flushed a police officer down a toilet. Now our hometown hero has become such a hit he's been signed for the 2nd season of 'America's Got Talent' as a guest star and he'll also coach the contestants. All in addition to his own daily show that he's hosted since May in the V Theatre at the Aladdin! I said "abracadabra" and conjured up a chat with the illusionist, exclusively for Luxe Life:
RL: Talk to me for a minute about cutting Megan Mullaley in half.
NB: NBC called me and asked me to be on the show. They said she was a huge fan of mine on 'America's Got Talent.' Every time she would watch the show she would say I want that guy on my show. They wanted to do something that was very interactive. I said 'well, we could do this' and I ran the idea of cutting her in half and they said that was great, but then we had to go through all of this legal stuff with NBC. They were like this is the star of the show and she maybe in danger. I said it was a magic trick and there is more of a chance of a light falling on her than her getting hurt by my buzz-saw.
RL: I can just imagine their faces, thinking she was actually going to be cut in half and she wouldn't be able to do the show anymore.
NB: There were six people in a roomand they were on a conference call and I told them it was just a magic trick, don't worry, and I told them I would put my mother in this thing. Even when I was on set, the guy had to see the saw and I told him that I would have to cut through steel. And the first time we did it, that people in the audience screamed and Megan laughed because she doesn't feel anything at all. She was great. She was a total sweetheart. They loved it.
RL: In a sense, even though you did not win 'America's Got Talent,' you ended up so often on that show it was like you were becoming the star of it.
NB: You know, most people would see it as an opportunity and then working hard and taking advantage of it. Out of all the acts, they said I should have been the most difficult. I brought in 10 people each week, I had all of these different big props and I had stuff coming in each week. I just wanted to provide good television for them and after the first 2 episodes they kind of got me and I said I want to bring the show girls, I want to do this and that. They just went with it and they loved it. The average contestant up to the finale, they did 3 performances. I did 6, and after I was off the show they brought me back to do the finale. I was a paid performer and I came back and I plugged my show in Vegas and I had people say that I won more than a million dollars in publicity. Back when I did the show, in the back of my head I would have loved to do the show, but it was never about winning. It was about going on there and showing what I can do and getting as much exposure as possible and you know for a lot of shows, it dies off fairly quick after the show. And there were 100 people that came to my show here last week purely because of 'America's Got Talent.'
RL: Then we featured you in 'Surreal Life: Fame Games' which will begin airing on VH1 this winter. So you are hot and getting hotter! But of all the illusions that you perform, which is your favorite and what is the one challenge you are still thinking of that you would like to accomplish?
NB: One of my favorites is the microwave of death that I actually came up with in high school. I would always get bored and write skits in class. Tthe original skit was I would drink a soda, fall behind a desk and then turn into a black guy and it was all the stereotypes. I go in the microwaveand get burnt and come out black and he is a cool, funny guy and I am the white guy and it is kind of something I am known for. It is a little edgy and I like to have fun with my stuff. There are a couple big outdoor things that I am working on. They go with 'America's Got Talent' and I have a flatbed truck, with show girls, driving right down the center of the Strip and we are going to pull up in front of a crowd of people at the Aladdin or Bellagio and then just vanish. Then for the summertime, I will be frozen in a block of ice with a showgirl for 24-hours in August and that should be real fun. I am very excited about the Fame Game episode also. I had a competition with Emmanuel Lewis, Vern Troyer, Chyna, and Tracy Bingham where they had to put an act together and the audience cast the votes. There was good footage particularly when Traci Bingham had a wardrobe malfunction! It will be interesting to see how it is cut.
RL: Magic definitely belongs in Vegas. This is the number one city for magic. But, do we reach a point when we have too much magic with Steve Wyrick opening his own magic theatre and ultra-lounge and Criss Angel starring in a new Cirque spectacular?
NB: There has always been magic in Vegas and, with my knowledge of 20 years, there was magic everywhere, and then it died off, Now it is coming back, but I think we are coming back in a different way. Criss Angel is a totally different breed. I think in every category, there is room for the best. You have Amazing Johnathan, which is outrageous comedy; you have Lance Burton, which is traditional. I fill a niche of not traditional; I am kind of like the boy next door, with all the toys. I actually came off as a nice guy from the show. I never got shown in a bad light or anything. I really won the lottery on 'America's Got Talent' and I may not be the most talented magician, but I am the hardest working."
CHEF CONTESTANTS
LEFT: 'Top Chef' host Tom Colicchio of Craftsteak. RIGHT: Chef Hubert Keller from Fleur de Lys.
Four local chefs are in a kitchen counter culinary showdown with $100,000 at stake forthe 2nd season of Bravo's 'Top Chef' and star chef Tom Colicchio of MGM's Craftsteak is the head judge, also welcoming back fellow chef Hubert Keller from Fleur de Lys in the Mandalay Bay who hosted last season. All told, 15 chefs from around the country are doing battle over the bouillabaisse, but we're rooting for our local favorites: Emily Sprissler, a line chef at Michael Mina's Nobhill; Elia Abroumrad who is an asst. room chef at THEHotel in Mandalay Bay, Otto Borsich who is an instructor at the Vegas Culinary Institute and Marcel Vigneron who toils for Joel Robuchon also at MGM. Last year Vegas had only one representative, Tiffany Faison and she placed 2nd! Incidentally, my pal Hubert just completed filming 13 episodes of the new PBS 'Kitchen Couture' series to air in February, showcasing many recipes from his Burger Bar on the shopping plaza bridge walkway Mandalay Place between Mandalay and the Luxor.
HALLLOWEEN HITS
Comic DJ Adam Carolla hosts a haunted Playboy mansion party at Scores tonight and from tonight until next Tuesday, ghosts and goblins frighten the heck out of everybody as Studio 54's haunted playhouse springs to death in the spookiest and hippest Strip party. The infamous danceteria has been decorated with aerial spider webs, with a special sinful version of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and Dr. Frankenfurter's 'Sweet Transvestite' from the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' to make it a true Nightmare on 54th Street. Body-painted models will host three nights of costume contests, all winding up next Tuesday with the 40th annual Beaux Arts Ball to benefit the Golden rainbow organization helping adults and children living with HIV/AIDS throughout the valley.
STRIP SCRIBBLES
The tete-a-tete dinner that PURE management principals, Robert Frey, Stevie D. and Gregg J. had late night at NOVE in the Palms Fantasy Tower with Strip showman Jeff Beacher has insiders guessing they will partner to manage his newly opened Beacher's Rockhouse at Strip Central because the location is one of the best on the block at Harrah's and Imperial Palace. Meantime, Jeff launches his Tiny Kiss tribute band tomorrow at the Rockhouse directly across from PURE, where long-tongued rocker Gene Simmons will be partying. That's masterful marketing, because you just know curiosity has to get the better of Simmons. ... The other rumor worth mentioning is that movie mogul Jerry Bruckheimer, who throws an annual ice-hockey weekend here for his Hollywood movie star macho mates on skates, is supposedly planning on bringing a NHL franchise to our sizzling hot-city!
TONIGHT'S TIP
Join us on the blood-red carpet at Brenden Theaters in the Palms for the world premiere of super-scary 'Saw 3' as I do the emcee duties with every member of the star-cast in attendance. After the movie there's a soundtrack party at Rain. Then Halloween horrors continue with Amazing Johnathan's official haunted house. It's the final countdown of the Stardust with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme starting to wrap up the famed resort's final weekend before shutdown after midnight October 31 festivities end next Wednesday morning.The Smothers Brothers with special guest Yo Yo Man start a run thru Sunday night at The Orleans.
TOMORROW'S TEASE
The ultimate clash of cultures: Fox News celebrates its 10th anniversary with conservative commentators Greta Van Susteren and Shepard Smith broadcasting live from wild and crazy PURE nightclub as the wild and wicked revelers plot Halloween in the wildest outrageous stripped-down flesh and fantasy weekend of the year. Plus, we'll say a respectful farewell to the legendary Stardust Hotel on its last weekend before closing its doors for good forever!
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make magic by banging our heads with an email to robinsvegas@aol.com.
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split-second we
post the brand new Luxe Life.
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Paris Hilton Continues Love Affair With Vegas & Criss Angel; Rodman Sells Himself on eBay
In This Issue:
LEFT: Check out Paris' bling-bling watch George Maloof gave to her. RIGHT: Paris and brief-beau James Leate.
The ultimate party princess Paris Hilton heads back here tomorrow afternoon and this time she's planning to stay until Halloween. Five nights in Sin City right through All Hallows Eve! Ah, we'll all be burning the midnight oil! This past weekend's two-day visit for Paris (click here for our Monday coverage) extended into 4-days before she returned home to Hollywood on a private plane 7PM Monday night. Scandalous stories about her 5AM, Sunday morning steamy smooch session with magician Criss Angel in a very private area of the Empire Ballroom have begun circulating around town. She'd originally flown in with new model boyfriend James Leate from New York for her best girlfriend Kim Kardashian's 25th birthday party at TAO. But he must have become history when she and Criss hit it off at JET 24-hours-later, and it was their pre-dawn tryst at Empire that caused her to stay an extra 48-hours with two late night dance stops at Body English in the Hard Rock. She's expected to be out on the town all weekend again, through Tuesday night, with her new lip-locked love mate magic man!!!
Paris spends "quality time" with 'Mindfreak' magician Criss Angel, who she'll be with again this weekend.
THE WORM FOR SALE
All-around bad boy Dennis "The Worm" Rodman is offering himself to you for a wild night.
It might just be the most unusual showbiz offer in eBay's history. The on-line auction house is now hosting a wild and wacky offer from basketball's bad boy Dennis Rodman, who arrives in Vegas this weekend to celebrate Halloween in scandalous and shocking style. He's offering himself to you and, if you like, two of your friends, for a night on the town. He'll treat you to dinner and then take you off to the Scores topless club for the decadent dancing. He's OK'd you taking photos of everything that goes on through the night, so you have the ultimate souvenir of whatever saucy shenanigans you find yourself in. If it's instant romance, you can also have instant marriage and a divorce by dawn!! He's also willing to give you an autographed Chicago Bulls jersey for the final keepsake! Sounds like the perfect bachelorette party and since it'll take place right here you just know Luxe Life swill have every intimate detail of Dennis' dilly-dallying!
CUT IN HALF!
LEFT: Magician Nathan Burton and actress Megan Mullally. RIGHT: Burton and "assistants."
'Will and Grace' actress Megan Mullally landed her own TV talk show and promptly booked Vegas magician Nathan Burton to cut her in half, and NBC's lawyers and top executives insisted on "standing watch over her" to ensure nothing went wrong. "They couldn't believe that I'd chopped her in half," Nathan told Luxe Life. "They wanted her back in one piece as fast as possible. They were very protective, thinking it was actually happening right before their eyes. They were really worried the electric buzz saw would hurt her skin!! But everything was safe and OK. After all, I am the magician." For Megan's talk show, Nathan made her and 'The OC''s Peter Gallagher appear to start the opening and then, later, he performed several other illusions in his own segment. Earlier this summer, Nathan gained national recognition as the most featured magician on NBC's 'America's Got Talent.' He performed more than any other competitor and was even brought back after being voted off. He made host Regis Philbin appear wearing a hot-pink corset, escaped from the "Microwave of Death" and flushed a police officer down a toilet. Now our hometown hero has become such a hit he's been signed for the 2nd season of 'America's Got Talent' as a guest star and he'll also coach the contestants. All in addition to his own daily show that he's hosted since May in the V Theatre at the Aladdin! I said "abracadabra" and conjured up a chat with the illusionist, exclusively for Luxe Life:
RL: Talk to me for a minute about cutting Megan Mullaley in half.
NB: NBC called me and asked me to be on the show. They said she was a huge fan of mine on 'America's Got Talent.' Every time she would watch the show she would say I want that guy on my show. They wanted to do something that was very interactive. I said 'well, we could do this' and I ran the idea of cutting her in half and they said that was great, but then we had to go through all of this legal stuff with NBC. They were like this is the star of the show and she maybe in danger. I said it was a magic trick and there is more of a chance of a light falling on her than her getting hurt by my buzz-saw.
RL: I can just imagine their faces, thinking she was actually going to be cut in half and she wouldn't be able to do the show anymore.
NB: There were six people in a roomand they were on a conference call and I told them it was just a magic trick, don't worry, and I told them I would put my mother in this thing. Even when I was on set, the guy had to see the saw and I told him that I would have to cut through steel. And the first time we did it, that people in the audience screamed and Megan laughed because she doesn't feel anything at all. She was great. She was a total sweetheart. They loved it.
RL: In a sense, even though you did not win 'America's Got Talent,' you ended up so often on that show it was like you were becoming the star of it.
NB: You know, most people would see it as an opportunity and then working hard and taking advantage of it. Out of all the acts, they said I should have been the most difficult. I brought in 10 people each week, I had all of these different big props and I had stuff coming in each week. I just wanted to provide good television for them and after the first 2 episodes they kind of got me and I said I want to bring the show girls, I want to do this and that. They just went with it and they loved it. The average contestant up to the finale, they did 3 performances. I did 6, and after I was off the show they brought me back to do the finale. I was a paid performer and I came back and I plugged my show in Vegas and I had people say that I won more than a million dollars in publicity. Back when I did the show, in the back of my head I would have loved to do the show, but it was never about winning. It was about going on there and showing what I can do and getting as much exposure as possible and you know for a lot of shows, it dies off fairly quick after the show. And there were 100 people that came to my show here last week purely because of 'America's Got Talent.'
RL: Then we featured you in 'Surreal Life: Fame Games' which will begin airing on VH1 this winter. So you are hot and getting hotter! But of all the illusions that you perform, which is your favorite and what is the one challenge you are still thinking of that you would like to accomplish?
NB: One of my favorites is the microwave of death that I actually came up with in high school. I would always get bored and write skits in class. Tthe original skit was I would drink a soda, fall behind a desk and then turn into a black guy and it was all the stereotypes. I go in the microwaveand get burnt and come out black and he is a cool, funny guy and I am the white guy and it is kind of something I am known for. It is a little edgy and I like to have fun with my stuff. There are a couple big outdoor things that I am working on. They go with 'America's Got Talent' and I have a flatbed truck, with show girls, driving right down the center of the Strip and we are going to pull up in front of a crowd of people at the Aladdin or Bellagio and then just vanish. Then for the summertime, I will be frozen in a block of ice with a showgirl for 24-hours in August and that should be real fun. I am very excited about the Fame Game episode also. I had a competition with Emmanuel Lewis, Vern Troyer, Chyna, and Tracy Bingham where they had to put an act together and the audience cast the votes. There was good footage particularly when Traci Bingham had a wardrobe malfunction! It will be interesting to see how it is cut.
RL: Magic definitely belongs in Vegas. This is the number one city for magic. But, do we reach a point when we have too much magic with Steve Wyrick opening his own magic theatre and ultra-lounge and Criss Angel starring in a new Cirque spectacular?
NB: There has always been magic in Vegas and, with my knowledge of 20 years, there was magic everywhere, and then it died off, Now it is coming back, but I think we are coming back in a different way. Criss Angel is a totally different breed. I think in every category, there is room for the best. You have Amazing Johnathan, which is outrageous comedy; you have Lance Burton, which is traditional. I fill a niche of not traditional; I am kind of like the boy next door, with all the toys. I actually came off as a nice guy from the show. I never got shown in a bad light or anything. I really won the lottery on 'America's Got Talent' and I may not be the most talented magician, but I am the hardest working."
CHEF CONTESTANTS
LEFT: 'Top Chef' host Tom Colicchio of Craftsteak. RIGHT: Chef Hubert Keller from Fleur de Lys.
Four local chefs are in a kitchen counter culinary showdown with $100,000 at stake forthe 2nd season of Bravo's 'Top Chef' and star chef Tom Colicchio of MGM's Craftsteak is the head judge, also welcoming back fellow chef Hubert Keller from Fleur de Lys in the Mandalay Bay who hosted last season. All told, 15 chefs from around the country are doing battle over the bouillabaisse, but we're rooting for our local favorites: Emily Sprissler, a line chef at Michael Mina's Nobhill; Elia Abroumrad who is an asst. room chef at THEHotel in Mandalay Bay, Otto Borsich who is an instructor at the Vegas Culinary Institute and Marcel Vigneron who toils for Joel Robuchon also at MGM. Last year Vegas had only one representative, Tiffany Faison and she placed 2nd! Incidentally, my pal Hubert just completed filming 13 episodes of the new PBS 'Kitchen Couture' series to air in February, showcasing many recipes from his Burger Bar on the shopping plaza bridge walkway Mandalay Place between Mandalay and the Luxor.
HALLLOWEEN HITS
Comic DJ Adam Carolla hosts a haunted Playboy mansion party at Scores tonight and from tonight until next Tuesday, ghosts and goblins frighten the heck out of everybody as Studio 54's haunted playhouse springs to death in the spookiest and hippest Strip party. The infamous danceteria has been decorated with aerial spider webs, with a special sinful version of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and Dr. Frankenfurter's 'Sweet Transvestite' from the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' to make it a true Nightmare on 54th Street. Body-painted models will host three nights of costume contests, all winding up next Tuesday with the 40th annual Beaux Arts Ball to benefit the Golden rainbow organization helping adults and children living with HIV/AIDS throughout the valley.
STRIP SCRIBBLES
The tete-a-tete dinner that PURE management principals, Robert Frey, Stevie D. and Gregg J. had late night at NOVE in the Palms Fantasy Tower with Strip showman Jeff Beacher has insiders guessing they will partner to manage his newly opened Beacher's Rockhouse at Strip Central because the location is one of the best on the block at Harrah's and Imperial Palace. Meantime, Jeff launches his Tiny Kiss tribute band tomorrow at the Rockhouse directly across from PURE, where long-tongued rocker Gene Simmons will be partying. That's masterful marketing, because you just know curiosity has to get the better of Simmons. ... The other rumor worth mentioning is that movie mogul Jerry Bruckheimer, who throws an annual ice-hockey weekend here for his Hollywood movie star macho mates on skates, is supposedly planning on bringing a NHL franchise to our sizzling hot-city!
TONIGHT'S TIP
Join us on the blood-red carpet at Brenden Theaters in the Palms for the world premiere of super-scary 'Saw 3' as I do the emcee duties with every member of the star-cast in attendance. After the movie there's a soundtrack party at Rain. Then Halloween horrors continue with Amazing Johnathan's official haunted house. It's the final countdown of the Stardust with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme starting to wrap up the famed resort's final weekend before shutdown after midnight October 31 festivities end next Wednesday morning.The Smothers Brothers with special guest Yo Yo Man start a run thru Sunday night at The Orleans.
TOMORROW'S TEASE
The ultimate clash of cultures: Fox News celebrates its 10th anniversary with conservative commentators Greta Van Susteren and Shepard Smith broadcasting live from wild and crazy PURE nightclub as the wild and wicked revelers plot Halloween in the wildest outrageous stripped-down flesh and fantasy weekend of the year. Plus, we'll say a respectful farewell to the legendary Stardust Hotel on its last weekend before closing its doors for good forever!
CONTACT US
You can
make magic by banging our heads with an email to robinsvegas@aol.com.
To ensure
you don't miss one eye-popping edition, click
here
or at the 'Alert Me' up top if you'd like to know the
split-second we
post the brand new Luxe Life.Go to AOL Vegas for much more on hotels, casinos, restaurants, nightlife, and everything Las Vegas! Check our travel section for great deals on hotels, airfare and much more! And when visiting Vegas, besure to see Las Vegas Magazine in your hotel suite featuring a print edition of AOL Vegas Luxe Life, and an incredible directory of attractions, shows and restaurants.
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