contrast to the non-story of Kevin Federline's last-stand at TAO. However, in all fairness, let's point out that the bad-boy rapper, no longer wearing his Britney Spears wedding ring, did apologize to my photographer friend JillAnn Spaulding (as seen below). On his last visit to TAO a month ago, K-Fed's bodyguard smashed her camera into her face, despite the fact she'd been invited to photograph him on the official red-carpet!
JillAnn told me: "This time I was shooting photos of him at the same place as the incident and he kept giving me eye contact. At the end of the shoot he asked 'Is everybody done? I'd like to get back to my dinner.' I put my hand up and said 'I'm the girl your bodyguard hit.' He leaned in, reached out his hand softly, grabbed my hand, and said, 'I'm so sorry about that.' He kissed me on the cheek, said thanks and that was that!"
Meanwhile, at the Luxor, Liza was in rare form. Felix Rappaport, the resort's president told Luxe Life: "What a great event! Liza was born into the entertainment industry. She's seen it all, done it all, and performed with all the greats like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. She's won Tony, Emmy, and Academy Awards. And yet, last night, we were all part of history, helping the extremely gracious, unbelievably generous, hard-working, and uniquely talented Liza resurrect a Las Vegas tradition that had all but been forgotten."The tradition was a free show (she was onstage for at least 2 1/2 hours) for her fellow performers, at a time when they weren't working themselves and could actually see her perform live. "She must have received 25 Standing ovations throughout the performance," Rappaport said. "She deserved every one of them. We are already working hard to bring Liza back in March, 2007."
What a performer! What a night! Broadway veterans Terri White and Sam Harris each came out of the audience and sang a number as part of the show last night. The audience realized that they were part of history. It was an absolute "love fest." Liza worked herself to the point when any other performer would have been at the brink of exhaustion, but after the show, when we went back stage to meet and congratulate her, she looks like she could have done another show! They don't "make 'em" like her anymore! Also, despite her show ending at 3:30AM, Liza fulfilled one other promise and last night finally got to see the Cirque Beatles 'LOVE' at the Mirage and went backstage afterwards to meet cast and crew.
So, while Liza belted out songs, new and old, to thunderous applause and standing ovations to become the new Queen of the Strip, Fed-Ex didn't even bother to perform. Expressionless, he just mouthed the words to his record and didn't even change his look when the DJ played Britney's 'Toxic.' It was supposed to be a Thanksgiving weekend celebration of his fast-fading new CD 'Playing with Fire,' but it was more like a wake, including jeers and some cheers when he was ...
introduced. He turned up 1-hour later than planned, at 11PM, with 10 friends, including his brother, for dinner favorites of Chicken Satay, Chilean Sea Bass, and Chicken Pad Thai. After dinner, the group hit the TAO dance floor where they danced to his songs 'Lose Control' and 'Privilege.' Supermodel Joanna Krupa gave him a 1AM hug -- condolences? -- but he continued dancing and drinking Grey Goose and Patron until leaving at 3AM for The Venetian casino. Maybe he'd decided not to perform at TAO because the previous night at Hollywood's House of Blues he called himself, "America's most hated man," yelling obscenities about the media, the paparazzi and the Fed-haters to a booing crowd who threw their drinks on the stage. One of his stage musicians actually asked '"Why do they hate you K-Fed?" He replied, "I dunno, maybe because I took their queen." In his song 'Lose Control' he added the line "I married an ex-superstar" which started another round of boos in front of the only names who turned out: porn-star Ron Jeremy, comic Pauly Shore and Kimberly Stewart. One report stated only 70 tickets were sold for the show, compared to only 35 that were sold at the previous night's cancelled House of Blues show in Anaheim. Perhaps those two nights added up to his non-performance at TAO marking the 14.59-ticking clock of his 15 minutes of fame? In fact, at the Dixie Chicks MGM concert next night there was wild applause when lead singer Natalie Maines dedicated their new song 'White Trash Wedding' to him!
The next night, K-Fed returned to TAO and again kept a low profile but did tell one reveler that "I've just got to get through all this drama."
INSEPARABLE
Meanwhile, Britney and new best galpal Paris Hilton have become hopelessly inseparable since Palms hotel tycoon, George Maloof introduced them to each other last weekend here at his Playboy Club. They've been partying late night at LA clubs since returning there Wednesday and were due to go to Miami for the weekend but wound up missing their flight. Britney stayed over at Paris' Hollywood Hills home and next night Paris stayed over at Britney's Malibu manse. The paparazzi went wild with the handholding twosome when Britney showed up in miniskirt without panties!!!
CARROT TOP CELEBRATES
It has been 1-year-already for Carrot Top and his successful zany comedy show at the Luxor and to celebrate he was given a framed key to the resort while partying at Social House for dinner and at PURE for dancing, along with mates of mirth Amazing Johnathan and Anthony Cools. Busty 'Baywatch' babes Donna D'Errico and Gina Lee Nolan joined the fun. It was one incredible week at the 2 hotspots: playmate DJ's (below) Colleen Shannon, Tamara Sky, Ms Vicious, Blythe Profit joined Playboy centerfold beauty Brande Roderick for a MySpace party, Another night new Playboy cover girl Cindy Margolis (below) hosted a party for her December magazine layout where she goes naked for the 1st time. However, for the party she did wear a stunning silver dress and a Playboy bunny necklace!
$250,000 CHAMPAGNE BLOWOUT
But all that is easily surpassed by the group of six British playboys who spent almost $250,000 partying on the most expensive Cristal and Dom Perignon champagnes for 5 consecutive nights from 10PM to 6AM daily, hitting PURE, sister club Tangerine and the TI's Social House amongst other nightspots. The group's leader had been to Vegas earlier this year and had such a great time he flew his best buddies in from London to really go to town this time around- and he promised to be back and do it even bigger and bolder next time! Ah Vegas- gotta love us!
PARTY PEOPLE
Country-queen Barbara Mandrell took her family to see Celine Dion's 'New Day' show at Caesars after dining at my pal, Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill restaurant there. ... Actor Alec Baldwin treated his young daughter, Ireland to 'LOVE.' ... The 21st birthday party for Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack at Stack in the Mirage featured a Thai-themed birthday cake to mark his water-only-sober-free state. ... New York Yankee Jason Giambi (left) treated a group of partying Marines to their Jack Daniels drinks at Body English in the Hard Rock when the 11th and 12th floors of the hotel were changed into one long-running room by room dorm-party. ... Heavyweight comedy king George Wallace got a surprise visit from diminutive pop-royal Prince at his Flamingo show.
STRIP SCRIBBLES
New season episodes of the 'Supernanny' reality series dealing with out of control kids will be filmed in nearby Henderson. ... The Gears of War Exhibition tournament by GameStop, the world's largest video game software retailer drew TNA Wrestling Star Samoa Joe who beat Kurt Angle with UFC star Forrest Griffin placing 2nd and earning their favorite charities $10,000. ... A contemporary movie version of Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' starts shooting here shortly with former 'X-Men' co-stars Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen - both of whom started their careers at the Royal Shakespeare Company back in England.
TOMORROW'S TEASE
Luxe Life celebrates the 10th anniversary year of Danny Gans who is still entertaining sell-out crowds at the Mirage with his extraordinary impressions- and a new contract! To save and rest his voice from his amazing nightly 90-minute performances of a thousand voices Danny rarely talks, but for Luxe Life he broke the silence and we've got the full interview!
