Without Robert Redford, there wouldn’t be a Suncoast. Well, sort of.
Christopher Lawrence
Movie and TV critic
Email: clawrence@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 380-4567
Christopher Lawrence escaped his native Kentucky without an accent thanks to the thousands of hours he spent in front of a television as a child. That’s also why he never learned how to ride a bicycle. He’s been writing about TV and movies since his days at Murray State University, when the school’s basketball coach had him reassigned at the student newspaper after just one story about the team. He’s been a professional TV critic since 2000, the Review-Journal’s TV critic since 2005 and its movie critic since 2012.
The “Hangover” movies are nearly as much a part of Caesars Palace as the Roman statues.
Mark Fuller may have been the only person near center Strip the night of Oct. 15, 1998, who wasn’t trying to catch a glimpse of the Fountains of Bellagio. In fact, he was facing the other way.
If you really wanted to rob the vault at Bellagio, it would take more than a team of highly skilled thieves and grifters, experts in munitions and surveillance, and a tiny acrobat.
Believe it or not, there was a time when your live-music options around the Strip were mostly limited to lounges, old-school showrooms or arenas. The only thing resembling a middle ground was the cavernous 7,500-seat Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts.
Howard Stern likes to travel the way most people like to be audited by the IRS while waiting in line at the DMV. But that didn’t stop him from making an annual pilgrimage — along with his radio show, its cast and an assortment of Wack Packers — to the Hard Rock.
Rehab, the Hard Rock Hotel pool party that spawned the city’s dayclub culture and helped turn it into a $250 million-a-year phenomenon, is coming to an end this weekend after 15 years, hundreds of thousands of partygoers and no telling how many visits to the nearest health clinic.
In plenty of time for Halloween, streaming giants Netflix and Hulu are releasing new horror-themed series Friday — you know, for those viewers who aren’t terrified enough simply by watching the news.
I’ ve never been much of a Lady Gaga fan. She’s crazy talented, but all that theatricality can be a bit … much.
Katie Kenner never planned to star in “Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man” at Paris Las Vegas.
The 15-month delay between the end of its third season and the start of its fourth makes “Vegas Rat Rods” sound like “Game of Thrones.”
The Wright brothers dreamed of flying.
For TV nerds, the fall season used to feel like Christmas as a kid, a time when anticipation turned to wonder at the gifts the networks were about to bestow.
The fall TV season is here, and with their new shows, the broadcast networks are being more inclusive than ever.
I don’t want to say CBS is completely bankrupt when it comes to originality, but this is the network that’s about to launch a Dick Wolf procedural about the FBI that’s called “FBI.”