Yep. These two again. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
It’s another Mariah Carey-Nick Cannon weekend. The former headlines at the Caesars Palace Colosseum tonight while the latter hosts at Vanity inside the Hard Rock Hotel. We imagine she’ll be flying out of the theater to get reattached at the hip to Cannon as soon as she can get out of her dressing room. Click for more words and pictures »
“So right on the couch where Brezhnev met with Nixon, I just grabbed ‘em and went ‘Honk, honk!’ ” (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)
If you closed your eyes for a moment last night at the Caesars Palace Colosseum, you could imagine a simpler time. A time when Nirvana was on the radio, Daria was on the MTV and beejays were in the air.
Yes, William Jefferson Clinton took the podium last night for a speaking engagement, where he netted a $1,000,000 donation to The Clinton Foundation from The Harrah’s Foundation. (Clearly, we need to get moving on creating our own foundation.)
Interestingly, it was N9NE Steakhouse Chef Barry Dakake who did the cooking for Clinton. He delivered a little care package of lemon chicken, vegetables, sliced steak, Japanese organic tomato salad, rigatoni, creamed corn, fries (naturally), red velvet cupcakes and more to Clinton along with N9NE Group’s Jenna Morton. It’s the fourth time Dakake has cooked for the 42nd president, who ate at N9NE three years ago.
Dakake also went over to the boss’s home last week where he cooked for the fundraiser George Maloof held in his house where President Obama mingled with the small group there.
Finally, with Bette Midler out of the picture, Celine Dion is free and clear for her big, three-year comeback to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Just don’t get too excited yet. It doesn’t start for another 13 months.
The new show will be “centered on capturing the romance of classic Hollywood movies” according to a press release, which we’re going to assume means an operatic reimagining of Creature from the Black Lagoon until we’re told otherwise.
Tickets for the first 54 shows (through August ’11) go on sale Feb. 12 and will range from $55 to $250. Replica Creature from the Black Lagoon masks will probably go around … let’s say 50 bucks.
Apparently he hasn’t been watching those Emmit Smith commercials. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)
Jeff Dunham, the undisputed king of the lazy racial puppet caricature and unfunny catchphrase, did two shows at the Colosseum inside Caesars Palace where he debuted his newest: Hans the German Moustache. See, you can tell it’s a crazy character because the moustache is gray while Dunham’s hair is a certain uniform shade of Just for Men brown. So clearly, these two things would match if it weren’t a character.
Hans, the story goes, was a moustache belonging to a butcher in pre-war Berlin. He ends every sentence with a plaintive “Nein, nein! Mein meat!” (Admit it: This is no dumber than “I keeel you!”) Comedy Central has agreed to give the moustache its own spin-off series and a 26-episode deal. How’d Hans get attached to Dunham’s face in the 21st century? We dunno … Peanut or … something. Don’t worry about it.
He’s so world-weary he doesn’t even appear in color.
Professional downer Leonard Cohen swings through the Colosseum at Caesars Palace tonight for an evening of feeling terrible about yourself and loving every second of it. If they ever wanted to seriously address the issue of teen suicide, they’d make every troubled 15-year-old listen to “Hallelujah.” If they can make it to the end of the song without throwing themselves off the balcony, you can feel free to tell the kid to suck it up and deal. They ain’t doing crap. Click for more words and pictures »
Nunca yendo a darle para arriba. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)
Keeping it all sorts of Latin, Mexican singer Luis Miguel was at the Colosseum inside Caesars Palace Saturday night while Guatemalan Ricardo Arjona had The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel Sunday night. Both of them are Latin Grammy winners, but Miguel should win some sort of lifetime achievement award for looking like the Latin Rick Astley. (You thought we were going right for the straight “Never Gonna Give You Up” RickRoll, didn’t you? We totally just zigged you when you thought we were going to zag. Mind blown yet?)
They never should have let Cher in the Thunderdome.
Tomorrow night’s Cher show at The Colosseum should feature 100 percent more cake. Cherilyn Sarkisian marks 63 years of funky bangs and “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves” during her performance tomorrow night. On this occasion, let’s all pause to remember a simpler time. A more trusting time. A time when someone said, “What the hell, let’s do a Cher cartoon.” A better time.
Dane Cook on stage at the Colosseum. A low point in the venue’s six-year history.
Well, not the one in Rome. That would be six in like, giant tortoise years. Really, even they don’t live that long. Unless it was in one of those sci-fi stories where the astronaut travels to Mars, then comes back to find his wife is dead and it’s 200 years in the future because of relativity, but then, why would someone send a giant tortoise to Mars, and do they even get married? (Answers: Because the tortoise speaks fluent Martian; and of course they do, but the ceremonies are closed to outsiders, like the Mormons do.)
Anyway. It was six years ago today that Celine Dion’s playground, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, opened for her five-year run. Elton John will perform his 241st and final show there on April 22. Bette Midler and Cher are still alternating residencies, all but ensuring that our long dreamt-of Morbid Angel extended run is still no closer to fruition.
God, it’s like staring into the sun through a blizzard.
Academy Award winning Moonstruck actress Cher (take that, Holly Hunter in Broadcast News) kicks off her month-long run at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum tonight at 7:30 p.m.
Is it safe to say now that Cher is as known for her elaborate costumes as she is for anything she sings on stage? It seems reasonable, but statements like that probably draw the ire of die-hard Cher fans. In any case, it’s all good as long as she doesn’t show up in this.
Oh, sure, by now every news source and wannabe media website has reported on today’s announcement that 61-year-old Cher is coming out of retirement to headline at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace for a total of about 200 shows over the next three years.
But we figured it would be fun to take a look at what might happen if the three top musical headliners at The Colosseum — Bette Midler, Elton John and now Cher — got together on stage at once. It might look like the frightening video above. Shiver.
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