03.11.10

No need to panic: We assure you this is not a sequel to A League of Their Own. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
Premise! Hot girl starts dating nerdy guy. Nerdy guy gets nervous, starts screwing everything up in a soupcon of hilarious awkwardness. How could this possibly end? It turns out she’s a robot? The Cloverfield monster invades and messes everything up? Or she teaches him a thing or two about inner beauty and self-confidence, and they stay hopelessly in love? Fingers crossed, Cloverfield monster.
She’s Out of My League — or, Bizzaro She’s All That — made its premiere at Planet Hollywood Resort last night with lead nerd Jay Baruchel and hot lady Alice Eve. Oh, but that’s not all. DJ Pauly D was there because of the Jersey Shore Red Carpet Act of 2010, along with Dancing with the Stars’ Stacey Kiebler, Playmate Laura Croft, Angel Perrino, Miss Nevada 2010 Julianna Erdesz. Other cast and filmmakers on the scene were Nate Torrence, Krysten Ritter, Kyle Bornheimer, Geoffrey Stults, director Jim Field Smith, Kim Shaw, Jessica St. Clair and David Krumholtz.


By Jason Scavone
03.9.10

Hey, remember that 20 minutes there was no controversy here?
Prive at Planet Hollywood had been controversy-free since October when the County Commission started granting the club a series of temporary liquor licenses while Metro conducted its investigation of new ownership group Vegas Nightlife Partners LLC.
But then, according to published reports yesterday, a court filing from new Planet Hollywood owner Harrah’s:
(T)hat Privé is in default on its lease because it has made just one of the $50,000 payments (stemming from its $500,000 fine); has failed to reimburse Planet Hollywood for $12,388 in extra security costs; has failed to pay all the rent due for January, February and March; and has allowed construction liens totaling $1.433 million to pile up against the property.
The report also said that Prive was seeking 90 days to decide whether to maintain its lease or move out of Planet Hollywood.
A spokeswoman for Vegas Nightlife Partners, though, contends that Prive isn’t looking to go anywhere other than the P-Ho’s second floor, and that Planet Hollywood, in fact, owes them money.
“Prive is up to date on all rent payments, and is in fact currently owed money by Planet Hollywood,” spokeswoman Vanessa Menkes said. “Prive has no plans to close or relocate, as Prive is a cornerstone of the original Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, responsible for bringing in other key tenants and adding celebrity buzz and glamor to the resort.”
By Jason Scavone
03.1.10

CITY. The shirt says CITY of Angels. Easy mistake to make. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)
CariDee English of America’s Next Top Model hosts tonight at Prive inside Planet Hollywood Resort, where they’re doing an HL Greenberg beauty giveaways for ladies. DJs Finesse and Five spin. She’s supposedly working on music with Better Than Ezra, which means she should have a hit single ready just in time for the highly anticipated release of Die Hard With a Vengeance. Click for more words and pictures »
By Jason Scavone
02.17.10

Not even Sex Rehab could stop this? Brutal. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
David Burke restaurant/nightclub Hawaiian Tropic Zone at the Miracle Mile Shops will be closing down. The two-year-old venue is hosting a closing party Saturday night with DJ Gigahurtz and DJ Timbo (and $5 you-call-its).
Word is, it’s a country bar (possibly another location for the PBR Big Sky Bar currently open in Kansas City) that will take over the space, but no timetables have been announced yet.
By Jason Scavone
01.26.10

Still rocking a little mullet? Well. He IS Canadian. (Photo by J. Ludwig)
Corey Haim really wants to be famous again, you guys.
While we can all agree that the Lost Boys vampires would totally kick the asses of the Twilight, True Blood and Vampire Diaries vamps combined it’s been a (License to Drive notwithstanding) tough couple of decades, what with the Variety ad and the blandly transparent Two Coreys and whatnot.
He was at Hawaiian Tropic Zone on Saturday night for the afterparty of the Planet Hollywood premiere of his American Sunset, which was being touted as Haim’s “comeback.” It’s a premiere that only seems to be noted on Haim’s website that came and went with little in the way of fanfare. We suppose it could technically be a return to form of sorts,but what kind of BS comeback is it that doesn’t involve Corey Feldman and Jason Patric? Dance with who brung ya, Haim.
He also turned up at the Hilton Friday for the Reach for Me premiere, which drew Adrienne Barbeau and Alfre Woodard.
By Jason Scavone
01.22.10

They should wear those during the evening wear competition. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
Much like your mother, the Miss America contestants wear Army boots. ZI-I-I-I-ING.
The 53 hopefuls got out of their fancy lady shoes and threw on some manly combat boots last night at Planet Hollywood Resort to participate in When They Come Back … We Give Back, an awareness campaign designed to support local and regional assistance efforts for combat veterans.
Among the celebrity participants in the campaign? Ted Nugent, that’s who. We assume in addition to helping veterans coming back home, he’s also doing what he can to send as many crossbows as he can to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re not sure how much good a crossbow is against insurgents armed with rocket launchers, but if you saw a Marine coming at you in camouflage and carrying Medieval weaponry, you’d be terrified too.


By Jason Scavone
01.22.10

The other 52 girls got a bum draw. Miss Puerto Rico is going to crush. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
Big news in the world of pageantry, Miss Puerto Rico is returning to the 2010 Miss America, bringing the total contestants to 53. So, you know. Competition-y. The girls arrived yesterday at Planet Hollywood’s Theatre for the Performing Arts to signal the start of a week of preliminary competitions ahead of Jan. 30’s live broadcast of the pageant on TLC.

By Jason Scavone
01.18.10
01.15.10

It was the P-Ho’s crushing debt that killed MJ. (Photo by Erik Kabik | Retna)
Harrah’s completes its Jay Leno-ing of Planet Hollywood Resorts tonight at midnight, taking over management of the former Aladdin after buying up its debt, while working on the plan to take over outright ownership. This gives Harrah’s almost all of the east side of center Strip from the P-Ho to their namesake casino.
We’re not sure if this is part of some nefarious Old West land grab where the railroad pays off a bunch of Apache to go terrorize a small town and then grab their homesteads at a reduced price, but they’re getting it just in time to lock in the properties that face about half of the Las Vegas Monorail, which just filed for bankruptcy. It’s a shame, too, because that’s the thing that put Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook on the map. Monorail!
By Jason Scavone
01.12.10

Crap. Zombies on motorcycles. That’s one small step from zombies in tanks. (Photo by J. Ludwig)
Hawaiian Tropic Zone at Planet Hollywood Resort unveiled the Savage Cycles Resident Evil motorcycle on Saturday, the world’s first motorcycle powered exclusively on brains. Now, the zombocycle is all well and good, but call us when you make a real-life Excitebike.

By Jason Scavone