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@TexDolly Tournament poker has just about busted all the poker players. You could shoot a cannon through poker rooms and fail to hit anybody.
@GregVegas ESPN: “When do sports celebrations cross the line?” I don’t know, maybe when the matador bows in front of the bull he just stabbed to death.
@Yassir_Lester I only believe the Illuminati exists when I hear “Blurred Lines” on the radio, switch to another station & the song is right where I left it.
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By Jason Scavone
September 26–October 2, 2013
At the recent Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival at Mandalay Bay Events Center, headliner Dave Chappelle talked about going to visit the Pawn Stars shop, and someone from the audience shouted, “Why?” “Why?” Chappelle asked. “Because they’re on TV. Why are you all here to see me?” You cannot deny the power of the screen. And neither can a pair of Las Vegas notables. Lance Burton stepped away from his live shows in 2010, but he’s been working movie mojo since then. First as a consultant to James
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Franco-as-proto-Frank Morgan in Oz the Great and Powerful, where he taught Jimmy Frank to do magic. But closer to home is the indie flm Burton is nearly done shooting, Billy Topit: Master Magician. Burton directs, stars in and co-wrote the fick with Michael Goudeau, who racked up 10 Emmy nods for his work on Penn and Teller: Bullshit! It’s Burton’s frst time behind the camera, but not his frst in front of it. His lone IMDB credit is for a 1986 episode of Knight Rider, where he played the phenomenally named villain Austin Templeton. There’s no release date yet for the movie, in which Burton plays a children’s party magician who
ran afoul of the mob. (Because Burton’s character helped a casino bust them cheating, not because the mob really would have preferred a clown and a piñata.) Meanwhile, Kyle Busch’s heir apparent as the face of Las Vegas racing, Dylan Kwasniewski, is doing his own dance with the cameras. The 18-year-old driver is doing an online documentary series, Flat Out, about his life as a teen who’s encouraged to go 160 mph, instead of having their dad take away the keys of the family Impala when they do. The series is being shown at ON.AOL.com. We guess Keeping Up With the Kwasniewskis was too on the nose?
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The September 20-21 iHeartRadio Music Festival was a treasure trove of celebrity after-parties, but only one of them was big enough to get a casino mogul to join in. Katy Perry, Muse, Adam Lambert and Brian May were among a group of 50 who had dinner with Steve and Andrea Wynn, and son Nick Hissom, at Botero on September 20, before
@ditzkoff Breaking Bad wins the Emmy Award for best drama/show I wish I’d watched instead of the Emmys.
@RobbyJayala If Miley Cyrus is trying to be that “edgy slutty coke whore” kinda diva, Ke$ha beat you to it.
@ChrisDElia Hey dummies, when you Shazam a song, you don’t have to hold up the phone, because it’s just a song and sound goes everywhere.
@JustKramer Burning the roof of your mouth on delicious French fries is God just being passive aggressive.
@Slash Just OD’d on pinball at Pinball Hall of Fame. New Metallica pin is pretty awesome.
they all moved to XS to take over three cabanas. … 1 Oak drew Jason Derulo for his birthday September 21, along
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with fiancée Jordin Sparks. Jermaine Dupri was popping bottles for the occasion, while Dave Chappelle swung by
Shout to all my music industry friends in Vegas tonight pretending to enjoy the @iHeartRadio concert.
after his Mandalay Bay Events Center turn. The following night, owner Richie Akiva was doing his birthday party, and he got Robin Thicke there to do “Blurred Lines,” because there’s never going to be a moment in time where “Blurred Lines” isn’t being played anymore. … Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick had dinner at Hakkasan with rapper Tyga on September 21, joined by Khloe Kardashian, still rolling solo sans Lamar Odom, which won’t in any way fuel the divorce speculation. – J.S.
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The Lure of the Screen
Congratulations @JManziel2 for putting on a fantastic show. He may not be able to make money off himself, but I can.