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 Riders are an industry term for special requests that Rock Stars have in their performance contracts… Van Halen wanted a candy bowl with no brown M&M’s… Beyonce needed 4 NEW towels and Daughtry’s agreement specified that the singer required 44 not new, freshly laundered towels. But the biggest ego’s in the music biz don’t come close to what the Fry’s Electronics exec Omar Siddiqui who was busted for wire fraud & money laundering demanded. For Mr. S. to visit your Las Vegas casino you had to send a private plane, have Fiji water (grouped in bottles of three), Golden raisins and warmed mixed nuts, chilled Dom Perignon Rose champagne and Kurosawa Sake, Glitterati Mentissimo peppermints, Aramis cologne, a badger hair shaving brush, Nioxin shampoo for "fine and thinning hair", lint-free towels (I’m happy when I get a clean one) in all he had about 7 pages of demands.The Nevada Gaming Control Board reports that income for the State’s 266 major hotel-casinos were down almost 69% (ouch) last year. Slot machines on the Strip grossed $3.3 billion (they didn’t get the nickname, “one armed bandits” by accident) and we lost $2.6 billion on the tables… itai! Cris Angel & the Cirque du Soleil team are tweakin’ “Believe”… Krater 96 local sales manager Scott Mackenzie paid cash to see the Luxor show a few weeks ago and loved it… fanboy.  Congrats to Bette Midler who was named “Woman of the Year” at the 25th annual Nevada Ballet Theater’s Black & White Ball.Seven out… after 49 years at the Tropicana, the show that made the “Las Vegas Showgirl” famous “Les Folies Bergere” is closing on March 28th. Lou Walters (Barbara’s dad) was the hotels entertainment director when they imported the show from Paris in 1959. Many believe that the longest running show on the strip is going the way of the extinct Amaui (Oahu Thrush) because it’s cheaper for the casino to “four wall” the showroom… rent the room instead of being responsible for the full production. When it closes the only full-scale showgirl revue on the strip will be Bally's “Jubilee!” Arthur Romero put $20 into the Barrett-Jackson slot machine at the Mandalay Bay and five spins later he was driving home a Limited Edition 2008 Shelby GT, number 8 of 100.
Almost as good as being there… the Las Vegas Hilton showed President Barack Obama’s inauguration on its 18’ X 32’ HDTV in the Hilton Theater the same room where Elvis performed. The Obama-wagon… the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino hosted “White House Wednesday,” where everyone was invited to toast the new beginning, play BJ with “Obama’s Mamas,” (dealers and dancers wearing red, white and blue) drink red & blue cocktails and try ‘Obamaritas’, ‘Obamatinis’ and Lame Duck Special’s.  He’s baaaaack… “Hit Man” and frequent Isle visitor David Foster returns to the Mandalay Bay Events Center on May 9th. Singing the songs that won him 15 Grammies will be Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind & Fire), Brian McKnight, Peter Cincotti and Philippine singing sensation Charice. And the winner is… according to the sports books in Las Vegas the score will be Pittsburgh 27, Arizona 20 with the over under at 47. If you bet on the Super Bowl you’re not alone, it’s the single biggest betting day of the year according to RJ Bell of Pregame.com: Over $10 billion dollars is expected to be bet worldwide, by more than 200 million people. Get more Kimo’s Vegas, text OCEANIC VEGAS to 32862 and visit us here online at Around Hawaii and in MidWeek. Previous column - Next column |
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