The four-day AVN + Adult Entertainment Expo, which opens today with hundreds of porn princesses preening for fans in the skimpiest of outfits and tottering on the highest of heels, crescendos Saturday night with The AVN Awards, the “Oscars of the Porn Industry.”
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Singer Celine Dion showed off her new ultra-blonde hairstyle and a beautiful, new matching beige gown when she returned to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Tuesday night to start her 2017 run. Fans told me that the 48-year-old’s voice was in great shape.
Lionel Richie said that Sammy Davis Jr. was a mentor to him and in an email statement this morning added: “It’s an honor for me to bring the life of one of my idols and friends to the screen. I’m so grateful to be working closely with the Davis family on this.”
Cirque du Soleil’s “Toruk: The First Flight,” inspired by James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning blockbuster film “Avatar,” opens at T-Mobile Arena for a one-week run of shows about the imaginary world of Pandora through Jan. 22.
Hometown rocker Vince Neil proved a hero to our Keep Memory Alive charity Monday night when he donated $770,000 of his “The New Celebrity Apprentice” winnings for research and caregivers support at The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
The Academy of Country Music Awards is returning after a year away in Texas, and it will be broadcast from our new T-Mobile Arena. The 52nd annual awards will air on CBS live to New York at 8 p.m. ET on April 2, with an 8 p.m. delayed broadcast on the West Coast.
Keith Sweat, the R&B singer of silky smooth who makes the ladies perspire and pictured here, starts the first night of his new mini-residency at The Flamingo with comedian Aries Spears. Keith also will broadcast nightly his “Hotel Sweat” radio show from the Strip.
The music of Motown made the world dance. It was the ultimate hit factory turning out No. 1 chart-busting winners almost daily. The singers were instant legends, from Stevie Wonder to Smokey Robinson and a young man named Michael who was part of The Jackson Five.
The ladies may well be swooning tonight when Keith Sweat premieres his “Last Forever” mini-residency at The Flamingo through Feb. 4 with comedy guest Aries Spears (“Mad TV”). The R&B singer will certainly have females perspiring and wanting to check into his “Hotel Sweat.”
It was an emotional weekend for superstar singer Celine Dion, who resumes her residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Tuesday. Saturday marked the first anniversary of her longtime husband and manager Rene Angelil’s death after a lengthy battle with throat cancer.
I have learned today that world-class chefs including Alain Ducasse, Charlie Palmer, Akira Back, Frankie Pellegrino Jr., Nobu Matsuhisa and “Cake Boss” hero Buddy Valastro have already signed up to attend for the dinners and signature Grand Tasting.
“People tell me the most amazing secrets because I’m honest and not a journalist,” Sammy Hagar laughed. He brought his cameras for Mark Cuban’s Axis Network to The Venetian over the weekend to film with Don Felder and Styx during their limited engagement “Renegades in the Fast Lane.”
Vince Neil hosts a screening at his Tatuado tavern at Circus Circus for “The New Celebrity Apprentice” episode in which he’s named project manager to create and launch a See’s Candies chocolate confectionary for billionaire owner Warren Buffet.
On a trip home to Germany, longtime Las Vegas musician Mario Basner discovered a crumbling sanitarium, and after he looked at what his photographs captured (photography was a hobby for him), he was so moved that he decided from then on his life’s work would be with his trusty camera.
With the arrival of legendary Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison on the Strip, you’d be forgiven for thinking that rock and roll has taken over our entertainment scene. Add the fact that Sir George Ivan Morrison was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and rock has gone royal.