TV Guide reports that Vegas-based CSI will give Marg Helgenberger's Catherine "less forensics and more fornication" by searching for a potential love interest to come aboard the top-rated series in May. "Fornication"? That sounds so ... dirty. Can't they just say "screwing" like everybody else? Or, if they insist on that "F"-sounding alliteration, there's another verb we could suggest.
On March 19, to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq, a local group called Peace Now—no affiliation with the national Peace Now, which exclusively focuses on the Palestinian/Israeli issue—planned to hold a candlelight vigil in front of the Bellagio. Unlike the '60s antiwar movement, in which companies were targeted for their role in supporting the military-industrial complex, Bellagio (owned by MGM-Mirage) was selected, according to protestor Jason Halprin, because, it is "a space with a lot of space in front of it." In fact, according to Halprin, there were no worries about being in the way of tourists on a Saturday night: "It wasn't that crowded. It was raining." This, of course, could have posed a problem for the candles. But it never came to that. The police ordered the rally to disperse, claiming a permit was required, and numerous arrests (25 according to the group's website, www.geocities.com/lvstopthewar) followed when members of the group chose to sit down instead. Meanwhile, the war in Iraq continued uninterrupted, as did the fountain show at the Bellagio.
From Ireland On-Line:
"Celine Dion has admitted that audiences at her Las Vegas show are often tired, drunk, sick and in some cases asleep.
"The singer says her current stint as a regular performer in at the city's Caesar's Palace Colosseum means that for the first time in her career she's often not playing to fans.
"The 36-year-old whose latest run of her A New Day shows at the Colosseum has just opened explained that Vegas is a very different town in which to see a concert.
Rather that buying tickets months in advance, punters can just walk up to the box office an hour before the show, making it 'a very different kind of audience.'"
From Details magazine:
"Gambling aside, visitors can find plenty of action in Vegas that does not involve blowing your life savings. Here are our 10 favorites: 1. Visit Mordechai the Jeweler ... Audemars Piguets (starting at $9,000) and Chopards (starting at $6,000) are among the house specialties…"
Time magazine writer Joe Klein loves him some Harry Reid. Since the run-up to the second reign of King George II, Klein has penned a handful of mostly glowing articles about the Senate Minority Leader from Searchlight, including an essay in the March 28 issue, "The Creative Stubbornness of Harry Reid," highlighting Reid's deft management of a politically neutered Democratic Party. None of which surprises Klein, who wrote in the November 22 issue: "Harry Reid is the kind adversary who just might wear you down." Looks like Reid has found himself a biographer.
Sakar International, makers of a variety of camera and electronic accessories, has just announced a new line of BlackBerrys for kids. ¯These lookalike toys are functional phones that include a hands-free earpiece so kids can multitask while they're talking. Each organizer actually organizes as well [hey, we didn't write this], with space for kids to store phone numbers, email [sic] addresses and their calendars.˜
Multitasking? Calendars? Forgive us for waxing Lewis Black, but what the hell are these people thinking?! We thought this kind of crap went out along with Baby Gapˆs line of business suits for toddlers. We can see it now: Little Jimmy on his Big Wheel, planning his schedule, "I've got tag from 3 to 4 but I can pencil in some hide-and-go-seek after that, but then it's cutting into my juice and cookies time.˜ That crash you hear is Jimmy T-boning a Radio Flyer wagon because he wasn't paying attention to his driving. That scream you hear is just us at the Weekly.