- “Madness” ends too soon in Las Vegas
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By Joe Brown
· July 14, 2009 · 2:07 PM
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“Thank you for calling ‘Shear Madness,’ America’s longest-running comedy.” That’s the recorded voice you’re greeted with when you call the Las Vegas franchise of the comedy murder mystery, which opened in May at a custom-built theater at the Town Square shopping center. They may want to change that outgoing message. After only ...
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- Kathy Griffin carted off Las Vegas stage
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By Joe Brown
· July 3, 2009 · 10 PM
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OK, here’s the thing: Say you’re Emmy-winning, Grammy-nominated comedian Kathy Griffin, and you’ve just unveiled your own wax figure at Madame Tussauds the night before doing two back-to-back standup shows at Mandalay Bay. How do you make your entrance? Hmmm… You got it: Griffin announced herself from the wings and had her ...
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- Michael Jackson: ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’
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By Joe Brown
· June 25, 2009 · 3:07 PM
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Michael Jackson died 20 years ago. That is to say that the creatively dynamic pop dynamo known as Michael Jackson ceased to exist as a vital, influential artistic force sometime after his 1987 album “Bad.” After that album and its string of undeniably vivid singles and genre-stretching videos, Jackson sank into unprecedented ...
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- “Badly behaved audiences, performers, critics…”
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By Joe Brown
· June 24, 2009 · 4:47 PM
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Can’t promise this will be the last Patti LuPone-related post, but here’s a very thoughtful take from the U.K. on the questions LuPone raises about audience behavior. Anyone wanna bet that someone’s going to remix footage of the Mark Sanford fiasco with LuPone’s version of “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina”? ...
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- Patti LuPone swipes at Kardashian, Hilton, Electra
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By Joe Brown
· June 24, 2009 · 3:04 PM
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After Broadway star Patti LuPone’s smackdown of a rude audience member at a Las Vegas showroom last weekend, La LuPone has been all over the blogs, with fans and fellow performers applauding her and rising to her defense, and others somehow not getting her point. Since that blog post brought such ...
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- Patti LuPone stops the show — this time in Vegas
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By Joe Brown
· June 21, 2009 · 10:18 PM
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She did it again. Broadway star Patti LuPone hadn’t even finished lowering her arms in the iconic introduction to the song “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina,” when she waved to her 10-man orchestra to stop the music. LuPone was already at the lip of the stage, chewing out some doofus ...
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- One night only: The coolest show in Vegas
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By Joe Brown
· April 7, 2009 · 3:52 PM
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Insider alert: One of the most impressive shows I’ve seen lately was staged off the Strip. Two weeks ago, on his off night from “Jersey Boys” at the Palazzo, Erich Bergen, who co-stars as the genius songwriter behind the Four Seasons, brought together some of his talented colleagues for a ...
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- Where Americans want to live: Las Vegas makes the Top 20
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By Joe Brown
· January 29, 2009 · 12:56 PM
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In a national study released today, Las Vegas ranks among the top 20 major U.S. cities in which Americans would like to live. We’re number 20. Hey, we’ll take it. No questions asked. After all, making the top 20 is pretty dang good, don’t you think? Denver came in on top in the ...
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- Rudner extends Harrah’s run until the end of time
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By Joe Brown
· January 16, 2009 · 10 AM
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Comedian Rita Rudner, who has been doing her act on the Strip since what seems like the beginning of time (about eight years, in Las Vegas time), recently announced that she will extend her Harrah’s residency through January 2012. That, of course, is the year in which the Mayan Long Count ...
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- ‘TiVo for porn’ a hit at Vegas adult expo
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By Joe Brown
· January 9, 2009 · 2:49 PM
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Internet porn-delivery startup FyreTV just finished its beta testing program, and being geeks who make their living by dreaming up a new way of delivering porn, of course they get big yucks out of calling it the “master beta.”
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