Red Carpet Report: Is Las Vegas topless show about to land reality-TV series?
We have a Wicked Whisper + Racy Rumor this Hump Day! Which topless-temptresses, late-night striptease here is in final negotiations with not one but two cable networks wooing the lusty ladies for a behind-the-scenes reality-TV series?
YUSHO TO CLOSE
As part of the transformation into Park MGM, Yusho at Monte Carlo is closing June 5. Guests are encouraged to visit Monte Carlo’s other dining venues, including Double Barrel Roadhouse, Diablo’s Cantina, The Buffet, 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria, d.Vino Italian Food & Wine Bar and Dragon Noodle.
MAGICAL MILITARY TOUR
Magician Murray Sawchuck flew out today taking three weeks off from his Planet Hollywood show to give back to military around the world touring with Armed Forces Entertainment.
Murray’s first stop is Honduras, and on the 17-day tour, he will perform two shows for troops in Puerto Rico and at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Murray will entertain in the warmer climes of Florida and The Bahamas and cooler climes of Greenland.
LINKED NAMES
Zowie Bowie star Chris Phillips and wife Jennifer Turco plan to name their baby daughter when born in late June or early July Ava Rose after Jen’s grandmother. By coincidence, former Zowie Bowie singer Nieve Malandra has named her baby daughter Zsa Zsa, which makes two of the famous Gabor sisters the newest star names here.
Be sure to read our Chris Phillips Q+A here and in Sunday’s new ENT section of The RJ as he marks his 11th anniversary of keeping lounge music and The Rat Pack partying alive and well in Las Vegas.
TABLET TIME
Nearly 1,500 digital tablets have been installed in the suites at Vdara to serve as a command center for guests needing everything from spa bookings and show tickets to room service.
They join the more than 4,000 iTablets at neighboring Aria, which is the world’s largest installation of in-room tablets to date. Now if only there could be robots to serve breakfast in bed — and pay for parking!
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
When The Food Network celebrity chef Robert Irvine presents his interactive cooking show Thursday as the kickoff entertainment of The Tropicana’s 60th anniversary, he has no script or rehearsal. That’s because the audience will seek to stump him with challenges on what ingredients to use and how to cook them, even while hanging upside down while strait-jacketed.
Thirty members of the audience will be invited onstage to take part in the challenge. There has been discussions of Robert’s show being a regular part of the hotel’s entertainment schedule after his restaurant opens there in late July, but there is no definite decision yet.
THANK YOU
A big thank you to EMS paramedics, dinner guests and managers of Andre’s Bistro on Fort Apache who came to my rescue Tuesday night after I fell over a concrete parking stopper that I failed to see when I stepped off the sidewalk. I went flying and wound up with a cut eye, bruised ribs and blood all over my face. It looks as if I’ve gone 15 rounds with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
My ribs hurt even worse! Apologies, but today is a shorter column than normal as I have ice packs over my forehead and on my bandaged body. I hope to be back to normal Thursday. If you see me wearing large sunglasses at tonight’s Ricky Martin premiere, it is solely to cover up the awful black-and-blue bruising around my eyes, which you’d rather not see and grimace.
