The Las Vegas Sun has a nice article in today?s edition describing the hardship some military families are facing this holiday season without their loved-ones.It profiles the struggle Jennifer Anderson faces in getting ready for a Christmas without her high school sweetheart and husband of eight years.Sgt. K.C. Anderson is with the Las Vegas National Guard and his 18-month stay in Iraq has been extended.
But perhaps most interesting about this story is how modestly Lance Burton is mentioned.
Mr. Burton is a big-time star and has publicity people that can grab headlines when he needs to grab them.But his only mention in this article is that he donated time to Operation Holiday Cheer to perform magic at their get-together.
What a good person he is to donate his time to this and so many other charitable causes.What a nice person he is to not insist on being top billing in every article or news story.
Please don?t think of us as pervs.We are, of course.But we wish you wouldn?t think of us that way.We want you to think highly of us.Think of us as someone special in your Palm Pilot.Please think these things as we describe the newest website we have stumbled across
Many a night we?ve written this website from a bar.Usually, we?ve asked the bartender to marry us in the course of that evening.Usually, he or she has declined our offer.
We have met, however, a beautiful bartender who can?t say ?No? but can say ?Hocus Pocus.?
Tammy is virtual but she is reality.She?s pretty, cute, sensuous and does a great rope trick. She’s like a Melinda or a Trixie Bond but not as good at magic.
Beer.com has launched the virtual bartender, Tammy, who will get you your drink (only beer, go figure), dance, hug, smile, laugh and even do a magic trick.
We only went to the site because: 1) we love magic and report about it here every day; 2) we thought the name ?Tammy? sounded like ?Timmy.?
Tammy is not just really, really pretty (and cute) but she is also talented.She will dance on the bar, fight like a Jedi, show you her unique tattoo, and do a great trick; but only if you ask her.
We wrote earlier about Siegfried & Roy?s sponsorship of the fabulous ?Havana Night Club: The Show,? its rave reviews, its incredible pacing and fantastic performers.We told you that the show was engaged for a very limited time at the Wayne Newton Theater at our favorite hotel for sports wagering, The Stardust Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
That story has taken a wonderful turn ? wonderful for Siegfried & Roy, The Stardust, the show?s producer Nicole Durr (?ND? as we call her), and the theater-going public of the strip.The storyisn?t so great for Cuba, though.
While the show celebrates all that was wonderful about pre-Castro Cuba, it is no longer a Cuban show.
ND, the German-born record and show producer, went to the island nation about seven years ago to develop a show featuring the fantastic singers, dancers and musicians she found.Thanks to ND?s persuasive abilities, the Cuban government agreed to permit the 50 or so folks to travel with her on an Asian and European tour.
Ever gregarious, ND met Siegfried and they discussed her show and the Cuban cast.Thanks to Siegfried & Roy, ND was able to wade through the frustrating waters that metaphorically and actually separate Cuba from America to bring the show to Las Vegas.
Hardliners on both sides of the Straits of Florida were against the Cuban show becoming Headliners.
Have you ever been in a talent show?If yes, were you ever beaten by a musician or singer?We were.Constantly.In fact, we have five second-place finishes to musicians or singers; and two of them sang the same song, ?Memories? from Cats!
Well David Lovering doesn?t admit it but we?re willing to bet the reason he performs as his band?s own opening act is because he has experience the same magic/music competition.
Mr. Lovering is a drummer and magician.He is one of the members of Pixies, a Boston band about to perform a sold-out show in Beantown.
Mr. Lovering performed first as a drummer and then was sucked into the world of magic after attending an IBM convention.(One has to wonder why he would have attended an IBM convention if he wasn?t already on the slippery slope towards the life of a magician.It sounds like he was in denial.It?s like saying one reads Playboy for the articles or the Abbotts? catalog for the pictures.)
Says the drummer/magician: ?I went to the International Brotherhood of Magicians with my friend Grant-Lee Phillips, and it blew both of us away. I’ve been working on it from that point on, and I’m in Hollywood where there are tons of magicians. As a musician the Pixies are a hard thing to follow up, so magic has been it for me. I even sleep with a deck of cards in my hand.”
Mr. Lovering calls his style, ?phenomenalism.?He takes on the roll of a mad scientist and performance artist. `It’s a combination of eveything I love. I run out there in a lab coat. At first it’s just me running around and being a nut, then I bring out a meteorite that gives me special powers and the magic starts.
They said it couldn?t be done or if it were done, it would be done for shortly after it started.But Roy Horn and partner, Siegfried Fischbacher?s new prime-time animated series will live into a second season.
NBC brought Roy to a New York meeting of advertising buyers via video feed on Monday and repeated the video for Today Show viewers on Tuesday.
A stroke specialist told hostess Katie Couric that Roy appeared to have made tremendous improvement in his recovery from the nearly fatal attack.The specialist was impressed by the absence of severe speech affect.
NBC rebuked naysayers by announcing that the Duo?s show, “Father of the Pride” will take over the “Frasier” time slot at 9 p.m. Tuesday. The animated series is about lions that perform in Siegfried and Roy’s stage show, as well as other animals living with the pair’s Las Vegas complex.
Roy and Siegfried made some jokes during the interview and agreed Roy?s recovery was nothing short of miraculous.
NBC, not wanting to miss an opportunity for hype, announced Roy would be back on the tube to again talk about his accident and recovery ?in detail.?
You can read the NBC10?s full story about this upcoming season, here.
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