Sexiest “Fantasy” at Luxor, CultureShocks.com, Tony Danza in The
Producers, Stoney's Rockin Country, Fatwa Against Robert Spencer,
Photoshop World Conference & Expo, Movies This Week, International
Remote Viewing Conference, Paul Rodriguez in Primm on September 22, and
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The
seductive adult revue at Luxor celebrated its two-year anniversary on
Wednesday, August 22 with an entirely new, terrific production. It is
much sexier and edgier. I really enjoyed it! The private event served as
the backdrop for the unveiling of the 2008 FANTASY Calendar – a
sports-themed calendar featuring the all-star FANTASY line-up. During
the VIP event, the cast of FANTASY debuted new dance numbers “All
Night,” “Sexy Thing,” “Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy,” “Kiss Me,” “Night
Time” and “Damsel in Distress.” Absolutely fabulous lead singer
Stephanie Jordan (pictured) performed several original songs.
The
entire FANTASY cast attended the FANTASY 2008 Calendar Party at the
Luxor Pool, along with the show’s multi award-winning producer Anita
Mann, choreographer Cris Judd and Tiger Martina, music director Darren
Sher and FANTASY comedian Sean Cooper. I will admit that the
choreography has improved greatly under the guidance of Judd and
Martina. The new numbers are very sexy and Jordan is not only beautiful,
but has a very charming rapport with the audience.
Chris Judd, with several friends, sat between two
women right I front of me. No one bothered him. He was called out from
the stage by Anita Mann, but his privacy was respected. Celebrities
should be told that at certain VIP events in Las Vegas, no one
approaches them. I always say, unless I get invited back to their suite,
I’m not impressed with bragging I said hello to a celebrity.
FANTASY performances are Sunday, Monday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday at 10:30 p.m.; Tuesday at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. and
Saturday at 11 p.m. Tickets are $45, $50, $55 and $59 plus tax and
handling fees. Guests must be 18 years of age or older. To fulfill a
fantasy, call (702) 262-4400 or visit
www.luxor.com.
Pat Robertson said of Culture Shocks Barry Lynn, “Barry
Lynn is an intolerant jerk.” So I was thrilled to be invited to spend
one hour with Barry talking about movies on Thursday, August 23rd.
According to Barry’s producer Dianne Robinson, Barry (when not being a
hellraiser) “is a huge movie consumer and sees them all when they come
out.” I had an absolutely terrific time with Barry who allowed me free
range to express my opinions about torture-porn movies, the industry’s
disregard for female critics, and sadism in our culture. Barry promised
me we could talk about homoeroticism in movies next time.
Culture Shocks takes a daily look at the outrageous
conduct of those trying to undermine Americans' personal liberties.
Along with guests from across the ideological, religious, and political
spectrum, Culture Shocks examines current and perennial controversies
that cut to the core of American values. Culture Shocks is a
“progressive” radio show out of Washington, DC.
Culture Shocks is aired in Los Angeles, Monterey,
California, Boston, Washington, D.C., Daytona Beach, Florida and
Nashville and covers social, political and cultural issues. Barry heads
a group in Washington, D.C. called Americans United for Separation of
Church and State.
www.cultureshocks.com
The official dates for the Photoshop
World Conference & Expo are September 6 through 8 at Mandalay Bay. My
New York friend Chuck Walker has been to several Photoshop Conferences
around the country and will be coming to Las Vegas for the Photoshop
Conference. (Photo of Chuck from my series “The Men Who Stare at Fake
People”.)
Photoshop is the future of photography and, with a
little practice, you too can erase 10 years of hard living from your
photographs.
The schedules for both the conference and the expo
include great classes and events, and some fantastic Photoshop World
firsts such as a Photoshop World Job Fair; the Photoshop® CS3 Extended,
Photoshop® Lightroom™, and Adobe® web tools learning tracks. There will
be a free digital portraiture pre-con class on Wednesday evening,
September 5th.
The
special three Wednesday workshops are Canon Live Studio, Digital
Photography Workshop, and Beginner's Intro to Using Digital SLRs.
The Canal Live Studio Workshop will be held
12:00pm to 6:00pm. With a live model shoot, you will learn the proper
use of flash, light modifiers, and how to light and pose a model.
Photoshop Hall of Famer Eddie Tapp processes the images in real-time
demonstrating the latest Photoshop, digital workflow, and printing
secrets the pros use.
Digital Photography Workshop will be held from
1:00pm to 5:00pm. You will discover how to streamline your digital
photography workflow and get amazing final prints from a renowned
commercial advertising photographer with over 25 years of experience.
You'll leave with a complete understanding of color calibration and
profiling, digital capture tonal control, image compositing, file
archiving and storage.
Beginner's Intro to Using Digital SLRs - Buttons &
Dials...Click! Workshop will be held from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. This
workshop will teach you everything you do not understand about the
buttons and dials of today's D-SLR cameras. This workshop promises you
will leave with a full understanding of what each function on your
camera is and, more importantly, what they do. Not only will the
workshop explore the buttons and dials, it will go one step further with
a lesson on the basics of digital photography.
Photoshop World Update
On Thursday night I
went to the VIP/Media night celebrating Tony Danza joining “The
Producers” as Max Bialystock. Our seats were in the 6th row center!
Danza began his 18-week engagement in Las Vegas on August 13. He
previously played Max on Broadway. There was an after-party at Paris
nightclub Risque.
“The Producers” Las Vegas production opened with
David Hasselhoff as temperamental director Roger DeBris. Danza steps
into the starring role as Bialystock and clearly enjoys the part of a
rascal producer. Since he did the show on Broadway, he has the role down
pat and has terrific chemistry with his co-star Larry Raben who plays
Leo Bloom. Raben also played Bloom on Broadway so this is a perfect
match. Once again, seeing the show-stopping “Springtime for Hitler” is
the highlight of “The Producers.”
“The Producers” has a score by Mel Brooks, and a book
by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman,
the show features sets by Robin Wagner, costumes by William Ivey Long,
and lighting by Peter Kaczorowski. The Las Vegas production, which
opened on January 31 of this year, runs 90 minutes. Show Time: 8 PM.
Ticket prices are $69.00 - $143.50.
When we lived in Santa Fe, we would go out CW
dancing on Friday nights at Rodeo Nights on Cerrillos Road (now closed).
I even made John take CW dancing lessons with me! So I got out my CW
twirl skirt and Zimbabwe cowboy hat for the 7-9 p.m. VIP Grand Opening
of Stoney's Rockin Country on Friday night.
This was Stoney’s 2nd Grand Opening since the first,
last Friday, was halted due to a computer glitch! It was worth the wait!
John, who had been out of town lecturing at the Army
War College for the Faux Grand Opening, was able to join Lewis Barlow
and my newest friend, nFusion’s Debbie Tham (pictured).
At
more than 20,000 sq. ft. of honky tonk Country Western fun, Stoney’s has
a 2,500 sq. ft. hardwood dance floor and a state of the art sound system
for live entertainment.
Stoney’s opened to the public at 9 p.m. Stoney’s has
two full service bars, star DJs, coin-operated pool tables, a mechanical
bull, dance lessons, and go-go dancers. Other bar highlights include
three 44-foot mini bowling lanes and four pool tables. Situated in the
corner is a western staple, a mechanical bull with bleacher seating for
optimal viewing. In the center of the action are two raised VIP seating
areas, including the Cowboy Ultra-lounge with plush cow print
wing-backed seats and access to bottle service.
Scheduled
activities include nightly bull riding contests and line dancing classes
every Thursday, Friday and Saturday beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday night
is also Ladies Night featuring $1 drink specials. Fifteen dollar
all-you-can-drink draft beer is available Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Nightly cover depends upon scheduled entertainment.
With over 1,200 parking spaces Stoney's is the newest
hot place for locals and tourists. Stoney's is located on Las Vegas
Strip approximately 3 miles away from the Mandalay Bay and 1/2 mile away
from the new SouthPoint. So, its time to get out of that rehearsal
studio and show off those CW dance lessons. Stoney's Rockin' Country,
9155 S. Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89123. (702) 435-2855.
Stoney's
Rockin' Country :: Las Vegas, Nevada
IRVA is holding its
next conference from October 19th - 21st, 2007 at the Alexis Park Resort
in Las Vegas, Nevada. Among the prestigious speakers is my dear friend
Jacques Vallee. Dr. Vallee’s talk is called “The Software of
Consciousness: Personal recollections from the early days of the remote
viewing program.”
http://irvaconference.org/index.html
Dr.
Vallee was a senior researcher at the DARPA-funded Augmentation Research
Center at SRI at the very beginning of the RV program initiated by Dr.
Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ in 1971. Given his long-standing interest
in consciousness research, Jacques became informally associated with the
program and is credited by Ingo Swann for suggesting the approach that
led to the coordinate remote viewing protocol. Over the following
decades, Jacques remained as a friend of the RV project.
http://www.jacquesvallee.net/
In the mid-eighties, Dr. Vallee was brought back to
SRI as a consultant. He was cleared for Grill Flame, went through formal
training with Ingo Swann, and contributed to the methodology research
that Dr. Ed May later led at SAIC. His experience spans the entire life
of the program and gives him a special position as an observer and
commentator on the reality of remote viewing.
Jacques F. Vallee, Ph.D., serves as a General Partner
of a Silicon Valley group that invests in North America and Europe,
primarily in high-technology. He was born in France, where he received a
B.S. in mathematics at the Sorbonne and an M.S. in astrophysics at Lille
University. (Photo of Jacques Vallee, Janine Vallee and Dr. Edgar
Mitchell taken in 1996 at Robert Bigelow’s National Institute for
Discovery Science Scientific Advisory Board dinner.
http://www.nidsci.org/)
The Original Latin King of Comedy, Paul Rodriguez,
will be at Star of the Desert Arena in Primm on Saturday, September 22,
2007 at 8 p.m. Tickets are priced at $19.95 and $29.95, plus applicable
tax and fees, and are available at the Buffalo Bill’s Box Office and
Ticketmaster outlets.
Comedian Paul Rodriguez’ career has spanned more than
two decades and includes starring roles and featured appearances in over
30 films and countless television series and specials. He has performed
his live stand-up comedy to well over one million concert goers from
coast to coast. Primm Valley Casino Resorts, located 25 minutes south of
Las Vegas on Interstate 15 at the Southern Nevada/California state line,
include Buffalo Bill’s Resort Casino. Visit the website at
www.primmvalleyresorts.com.
“The Last Legion” (NO), “The Invasion” (NO), “Resurrecting The Champ”
(YES).
“The
Invasion.” Don’t join The Hive. Don’t become part of The Universal Mind.
Stay a violent human with your own selfish agenda. They found the one
woman on the planet who isn’t turned on the sexy 007 Daniel Craig. If
you ask me, Nicole Kidman sabotaged Craig from taking the movie away
from her by barely glancing at him. Why not just cast Paul Giamatti if
you don’t want sexual chemistry on the screen?
Casting Kidman with Craig must have looked good on
paper and poster, but Craig plays a very minor, uninteresting role. He
mostly stands in the background. Designed as a Kidman-starring vehicle,
“The Invasion” is an updated version of Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers." But they dumped The Pod! NO one says:
“What happened? Did a pod take your place?”
How did screenwriter David Kajganich ruin this
classic? He, or the “they” who tinkered with it afterwards, gave “The
Invasion” a happy ending! With 2012 soon upon us and threats of another
September 11 coming, an antidote is found to the alien invasion!
Everything
goes back to normal – all bad alien infestation memories are erased –
and all is good with the world.
Kidman plays a non-emotional psychiatrist separated
from her husband. She is raising their son Oliver alone. Carol has a
platonic relationship with a very desirable doctor, played by Daniel
Craig. Her unhappy marriage has distanced her from happiness and sex
with Ben. When Oliver brings home a weird living tissue, they give it to
a hospital technician who tells them it is not a vigilant form of the
flu but something far more sinister. The “flu virus” turns people into
complacent zombies with a Universal Mind.
According
to New Age philosophy and Mellen-Thomas Benedict’s Near-Death
Experience, we are all directly connected to The Source of Everything.
We are part of the Higher Self Matrix. We are connected, as Benedict
experienced firsthand, “as one being, all humans are connected as one
being, we are actually the same being, different aspects of the same
being.”
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html
“The Invasion” says no to this. Stay human with all
the bloodthirsty reptilian drives. Stay angry. And after the antidote is
given to our heroine and her man? They become a robotic happy family!
To prove my fearlessness, I attended 2
days of The Center for Strategic Analysis’ 3-day seminar on “Know Your
Enemy - Islam, Jihad and Terrorism” at a secret location. On Thursday,
John spoke on the topic of “Future Conflict With Islam.”
CSA’s featured 2-day speaker, the really fearless
zealot Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.org (pictured), has had a fatwa
issued against him! Now there’s a wanted list that has got to be hard to
get on! A fatwa is a legal decree in sharia law (a religious ruling)
requiring any Muslim to kill the “fatwaee” (I made up this word) if they
had the chance. The faux-fatwa sent to Spencer had this as a closing
line:
"May
Allah rip out his spine from his back and split his brains in two, and
then put them both back, and then do it over and over."
I asked Spencer about his fatwa. Spencer downplayed
the fatwa as being “non-sanctioned.” It’s a technicality he’s embracing.
He was more impressed that Adam Gadahn personally invited him to join
Islam. On September 2, 2006 a video called "Invitation to Islam"
surfaced on various pro-al Qaeda websites. It featured a lecture by
Gadahn.
In the video, Gadahn stated "If the Zionist crusader
missionaries of hate and counter-Islam consultants like Daniel Pipes,
Robert Spencer, Michael Scheuer, Steven Emerson, and yes, even the
crusader-in-chief George W. Bush were to abandon their unbelief and
repent and enter into the light of Islam and turn their swords against
the enemies of God, it would be accepted of them and they would be our
brothers in Islam." Both Pipes and Spencer have publicly declined to
accept Gadahn's invitation to convert to Islam!
Spencer
is on a lone campaign to tell Americans the truth about Islam. He scared
the Hell out of me. And that’s not easy to do. The Prophet said, "I
looked into paradise and saw that the majority of its people were the
poor, and I looked into the Fire and found that the majority of its
people were women." (Bukhari Volume 8, Book 76, Number 554).
The Center for Strategic Analysis is a non-profit
organization founded by Executive Director/ Founder Patrick Boylan as an
educational endeavor to make the public and government aware of the true
causes of terrorism and to be a source of insight and truth. For
security reasons the exact location of the seminar was only shared with
attendees who agreed not to share the location information with
non-attendees. Email
pboylan@centerforstrategicanalysis.org or call Patrick Boylan at
702.866.6466 for information regarding the next seminar.
http://www.centerforstrategicanalysis.org/.
Well, perhaps none of you
are interested in reading “History of Circumcision From the Earliest
Times to the Present” by P.C. Remondino, but I am finding it
fascinating! One in four adults say they read no books at all in the
past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released last
week. Of those who did read, women and seniors were most avid, and
religious works and popular fiction were the top choices. The typical
reader claimed to have read four books in the last year — half read more
and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual
number read was seven
