The porn industry insider website Adultfyi.com has been following the sad downfall of Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein. After losing his Florida mansion and New York town house, the onetime millionaire smut peddler is currently residing in a homeless shelter. Two weeks ago, Adultfyi.com reported a call Goldstein made to the Howard Stern radio show in which Goldstein noted that most of his former friends in the adult industry have turned their back on him. Surprisingly, that has not been the case with local headliner Penn of Penn & Teller. "Penn has said he would help me find a new place," Goldstein said. Maybe the Rio?
The Rio is putting finishing touches on its $7 million, 21,000-square-foot Chippendales Theater.
Says senior vice president and general manager Marilyn Winn in a release: "Women are curvy and the design of the complex follows suit ... everything is smooth and curved with no hard edges or corners. The ladies' room and gossip pit were designed with lighting that makes everyone look beautiful."
Maybe she's still peeved at the Grinches who recently burglarized her crib, but former mayor Jan Jones sounds ba-humbuggish in an otherwise glowing Review-Journal package on downtown's Oscar Goodman-powered renaissance.
"Being in the right place at the right time doesn't mean you should get all the credit," Jones told the R-J, crediting her administration (1991-1999), which experienced a handful of taxpayer-financed bombs, with setting the groundwork.
"When I first heard about the condos going up, I scratched my head and wondered why people would want to live there. It's not a long-term environment. ... It's a fantasyland like Disney World, and who wants to live in Disney World?"
A man. A puppy. Four Christmas carolers. They bumped into each other at the District at Green Valley Ranch one recent evening, and the man with the dog requested that the carolers sing "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Decked out in top hats and overcoats, the carolers sang, while the middle-aged man held his cell phone up, sucking in the yuletide spirit. A crowd gathered. The German shepherd puppy sat by his side, watching, listening. At the end of the song, the man talked into his cell, and then told the carolers, "She's crying." The crowd let out a collective, "Awww," applauded and dispersed. Merry Christmas.
Job got you down? Start a business. There's no better place than here, says Sales Genie, a business and consumer marketing database operated by infoUSA. There were 73,163 small business in 2003, up from 46,170 in 1998. The 58.5 percent increase is the biggest of any metropolitan area over that period; small businesses in the nation's top metropolitan areas grew an average of 18.6 percent.
T.R. Witcher has some 20-20 hindsight for the winner: Kelly Perdew defeated Jenn Massey on the painfully long three-hour finale to The Apprentice last week. The Donald gave the ex-Army Ranger his choice of two projects: assisting in the development of a 64-story hotel-condo tower on the Strip, or pitching in on a battery of Trump-badged high-rises in Manhattan. Perdew opted to stay in the Big Apple to be closer to his new boss.
Big mistake.
While Trump's gold-skinned Vegas project looks like a knockoff of Mandalay Bay, at least Perdew would have had the chance to, you know, actually run something. Learn some new skills. Because, let's face it, you don't want to work for Trump forever, do you? And though complex, the Vegas project is still just one building. In Manhattan, Perdew will be what he and the other contestants have been all season long—overeducated, overqualified lackeys.
Kelly: Man, you'd have lived like a king in Vegas. In New York you'll live like, well, an apprentice.
Wile E. Coyote was passing through Vegas and overturned a truck full of bees hoping to coat the freeway with honey and stop that rascally Roadrunner. Only, in a strange twist, the Roadrunner got away. And millions of real bees perished in a deluge of soapy water.