Vegas' native daughter Sophia Rossi had a successful modeling and acting career, with shoots for Jack Daniels, ESPN and Harley Davidson and roles on Chicago Hope and in Vegas Baby, a film screening at CineVegas. Then the 27-year-old blonde woke up one morning and decided to join Club Jenna. Over deafening cheers, we briefly chatted.
Where did you go to high school?
I went to Chaparral and I also went to Vo Tech.
Do people recognize you now?
It's funny, even from elementary school, I'll run into people once in a while and they'll be like, "Oh my God," they'll recognize me. But I still have my best friend from eighth grade, she still lives here, and I associate with a lot of the same people I grew up with.
Were you one of those women who blossomed after high school?
No, no, no. Say, like, seventh grade. [laughs] I blossomed at seventh grade.
What compelled the move to go from the mainstream to the adult industry, when so many adult stars want mainstream acceptance?
I couldn't really get a character who wasn't the sex icon or the girlfriend, you know, the bimbo-type look. I have no qualms with my sexuality, really no inhibitions, so I found it very, very easy to transfer over.
Was it through Jenna Jameson?
I met Jenna about six years ago. We were really, really good acquaintances. We'd hang out with each other when she'd come to Vegas or when I was in Phoenix. So when I decided ... I just woke up, actually, one morning and it kind of hit me, and I talked to my good friend about it, and ... I was doing a photo shoot at Foxes.com and I was nude—it was my first time doing nude, it was February '05—and I thought, "You know what, this is so easy, I think I could go ahead and do this." And I called up Jenna and she was like, "Are you sure? Oh my God! It would be incredible to have you onboard!" They welcomed me with open arms and it was fantastic.
That open-arms imagery is distracting. With the title and release date of your debut secret, what can you tell us about your first film?
It's hot, like it's smokin' hot, oh my God. They have the most incredible ideas of how they're going to put this together. I saw some cuts of it and it's just phenomenal. They spent more money on the production and the editing of the movie than any other company out there, hands down.
George Lucas will be worried. Is there anything else you can say about it?
It was my first scene on camera ever and it was my first time ever with a woman, and it was with Jenna. It was awesome beyond ... if I would've known women were that good, I probably would've went a lot sooner. [laughs]
It would've been a different story back on prom night.
Yeah, really!
Place Your Bets |
Wayne Allyn Root, author of Zen and the Art of Gambling and star and producer of the upcoming King of Vegas on Spike TV, offers odds on the latest trial of the century.
"First of all, can you really set odds on someone this odd? The Michael Jackson case will go down in the annals of legal history as the first case of a family of con artists framing a guilty man. I know he's guilty, you know he's guilty, the other readers of the Las Vegas Weekly know he's guilty, and hundreds of boy scouts across the country know he's guilty—they have the souvenir sparkle gloves to prove it. Yet, I fear our justice system will let us all down again. I hear Jackson is so confident of acquittal he's on a shopping spree, buying ‘His' and ‘His' monogrammed bath towels. Smart money at betting sites around the globe is predicting acquittal. It's awful hard to convict celebrities—ask O.J. But I'll buck the trend. I'll lay 3 to 2 that Wacko Jacko is convicted of any charge.
New Record Store Gets 4 Stars! |
Here's how cool Zia Record Exchange is: The jazz shelves actually had an empty section marked "Sonny Sharrock"! Merely by knowing who this cruelly neglected guitar master is, Zia immediately won me over. The rest of the huge selection just sealed the love. I won't dazzle you with my musical tastes, but I will note that as I ran down my rock, jazz and pop checklist, Zia had every item on it, and a bunch that should've been. Many a future lunch hour will be stretched here, guaranteed. If it doesn't have as many low-cost used discs as the legendary Big B's, Zia's selection is broader, deeper, less hit-and-miss, and the prices are still pretty good, at least compared to full retail. Now they need to get more Sonny Sharrock.
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Lon Bronson All-Star Band (5 stars)
Live From the Golden Nugget
Hard to believe the Lon Bronson band has been playing Vegas for 15 years. Even harder to believe is they've never released an album until now. It's certainly been worth the wait. A selection of 12 tracks captures a small sample of the 15-member band's best R&B, funk, rock and soul, with three original numbers by Tower of Power's Stephen "Funky Doctor" Kupka and Bronson. The CD is available at
www.LonBronson.com but is no substitute for catching them live twice a week at the Nugget.