CineVegas Officially Underway

Last night's red carpet opening at the Palms did not disappoint. Fans arrived early and lined up to catch a glimpse of Ocean's Thirteen cast members as they arrived for the Las Vegas movie premier.

The premier doubled as benefit for the "Not on Our Watch" humanitarian group.

Tonigh the Golden Nugget will host The Grand a mockumentary about professional poker. The Grand was filmed here in Las Vegas.

Ocean's Thirteen to premier at the CineVegas Film Festival

The Ninth Annual CineVegas Film Festival will open tomorrow night a the Palms Hotel and Casino with this summer's expected blockbuster movie Ocean's Thirteen. The red carpet affair will benefit Not On Our Watch, a organization supporting Darfur humanitarian efforts.

CineVegas will mark its 9th year tomorrow. Tickets are $10 per screening, tickets are available on line at http://www.cinevegas.com/ , by telephone 888-883-4278 or at the Palms box office.

Two films that have piqued my curiosity this year are "The Grand" and "You Kill Me". Lets see how they do.

The festival runs through June 16th.

From the Land of the Buffets......

Driving home today I kept thinking about how to follow up on my last post about Las Vegas being the America's fattest City. I then spotted the $6.99 all you can eat buffet billboard which gave me inspiration. I then made a stop at Walmart which confirmed we were America's fattest city.

I t made me think back to the days when I was a just a tourist here on the weekend trying to make back all the money I had lost gambling, attempting to ensure that Caesar's Palace didn't turn a profit on me. (I saw David Hasselhoff and his Ex there once)

I then came across the LVRJ's page that has this great photo of the Palms Marquee "Free Paris" first thought is free Palms party girl Paris Hilton but it is actually a promotion for the Palms new Bistro Buffet. Check out the Marquee at http://www.normclarke.com/

I guess I will still have to investigate how and why Las Vegas is America's fattest city.

I want my...I want my... I want my MTV

More to look forward to at the Palms' new Pearl concert arena... the MTV VMA's will be hosted here in Las Vegas. The awards show will be held on September 9th. This show will be the 24th annual. The show has historically been held in New York City, twice in Miami and Los Angeles. Las Vegas will be the fourth city to host the event.

It's hard to imagine that MTV is turning 26 this August. ( I feel another rant about the 80's coming on!) Back in '81 that was the only reason to sign up for cable television.We always watched it or had it on in the background. We knew all the VJays. Hell, I even went to high school with Martha Quinn. Who could forget videos like Pat Benatar's "Love is a battlefield", Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Madonna's "Borderline". I even had a friend who worked on a couple of MC Hammer's videos. (How cool was that.)

Whenever I channel surf it seems like the only thing on MTV is bunch of reality shows. I never see any music videos. Do bands even make them anymore for MTV?

The Pearl

The Maloof brothers have done it again... Tomorrow night the Pearl the Palms' new concert theater will open with Gwen Stefani. The Palms will have 160 skytracker lights to mark the sold out Gwen Stefani Show. They will attempt to break the world record for skytrackers to gain entry into the Guinness Book of World Records.

According to reports local Las Vegans should be in for quite a show tomorrow night! Let's see what happens.