Las Vegas Weekly

October 24, 2008 · 2:16 PM

Strip Scribbles: Kim & Charlie in nightclub showdown

By Robin Leach

Photo: Scott Doctor

Kim Kardashian.

*Two rival nightclubs will rely on Hollywood star power to grab the spotlight this weekend. Sexy reality star Kim Kardashian, who has been a regular visitor here for several months this year returns to celebrate her birthday at the LAX nightclub in the Luxor. Kim, who has appeared this TV season on Dancing with the Stars and her own Keeping Up with the Kardashians, will blow out the 28 candles on her cake. Kim flies in from an Alabama hospital, where she visited boyfriend and New Orleans Saints football player Reggie Bush. He is there being treated for an injured left knee that required surgery after a game against the Carolina Panthers. Plans the couple had to romantically celebrate her birthday in London had to be postponed -- and Kim even had to wear a sterile hospital gown when she went into Reggie’s private room to help his recovery! Over at Prive inside the Planet Hollywood, actor Charlie Sheen from he hit CBS show Two and Half Men will make a rare hosting appearance -– and I have an inside tip that his new wife, Brooke Mueller, will be attending. The couple is expecting twins early next year. Although his divorce from actress Denise Richards was final in 2006 the couple have been feuding and fighting in and out of court over a bitter custody dispute involving their two daughters.

Photo: Cirqu du Soleil

Jane Seymour and the cast of O.

*Actress Jane Seymour and two friends went backstage after watching Cirque du Soleil’s water-themed O show at the Bellagio. They met the cast and Jane told one of the O dancers her own career started out with dance, adding, “Since I wasn’t a great dancer, I went into acting instead.” Jane has told me previously that she sustained serious injuries to her feet while she was a London teenager, doing her ballet lessons -– and still suffers from some foot discomfort to this day!

*Congratulations to casino legend Jackie Gaughan as he celebrates his 88th birthday today (Friday). Only recently did he decide on semi-retirement by selling his shares in the downtown El Cortez, where he’ll have cake and champagne all afternoon for friends and fellow poker players.

*Today (Friday), the Vegas cast of the Mamma Mia musical at Mandalay Bay racks up 2,175 performances, making it officially the longest-running, full-length Broadway production to ever play the Strip. Congratulations again! The show moves out for good on the first week of January to make way for the spring arrival of the Disney Lion King musical.

Photo: TVT

Photo: TVT

*Halloween horrors kick off this weekend with some scary-fun events. Master of masks magician Jeff McBride will host the seventh annual Witches and Wizards Ball at his Wonderground club at the Palace Station after his incredible illusions in the SoundTrax showroom. He’ll first have the British editor of Pagan Magazine, Jon Randall, duplicate the final 1936 séance in an attempt to contact the spirit of legendary magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, which will end at midnight. Then Jeff will perform his own mystery show with several guest magicians and other illusionists … Please support the unique Monster Mash Car Bash at the Palace Station tomorrow (Saturday), rising funds for the FAST4KIDS charity sponsored by our Vegas Metro police officers to aid autistic children. It will feature a parade of Corvettes decorated for Halloween … The Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball at the Las Vegas Sports Center, on East Sunset Road, where the Strip meets McCarran Airport, promises erotica and the exotic with chained goddesses, lusty lingerie ladies, rubber-wearing dolls, studded freaks and five DJs on the “wheels of steel.” Bizarre Magazine described last year’s bash as, “The World’s Wildest Halloween Party,” and its not so much eye-popping as to what people wear and dress up in -- but how little they actually cover their bodies!

Now its time for me to brush off the cobwebs, shake up the spirits, look into my crystal ball and reveal the rest of the spooky highlights of another wild wanton Sin City weekend that we scream around here as the

ROYAL ROBIN RUNDOWN:

Friday:

Joel McHale of The Soup.

*Comedy is king with the eloquent Dennis Miller brilliantly churning through Webster’s as he delivers puns on pundits at The Orleans for three nights, while David Spade returns again for two nights at the Planet Hollywood Stomp Theater and The Soup’s Joel McHale takes Hollywood half-apart at Mandalay Bay for one night only of standup.

Photo: Scott Doctor/www.greatscottstudios.com

Clint Holmes.

*Take a trip up to the Suncoast for the three-nights of special shows that my friend Clint Holmes is onstage for. You never know who of his many friends will drop by to surprise with music and song but musical director and Las Vegas Tenor Bill Fayne will definitely be there. Clint, himself, will do some Tribute to Broadway numbers, preview his new musical’s material and showcase what his New York State of Mind with the New York Pops Orchestra at the famed New York Carnegie Hall in early November.

Photo: Jillann Spaulding

Chris Cornell.

Photo: MTV

Timbaland.

*There’s more music for every age and taste tonight: Flogging Molly lashes out with its rock at the Pearl Theater in the Palms; country music legend Ray Price has that country twang at the Santa Fe Station; veteran Debbie Reynolds is still going strong and has a three-night run of comedy, dance and songs at the South Point; rocker Chris Cornell, who’s new Scream album is about to be released is joined by hip-hop Shock Value record producer Timbaland to enjoy a “Euphoric Morning” at the Hard Rock Hotel; Academy of Country Music award winner as Top New Male Vocalist Jack Ingram plays the Green Valley Ranch; and for our south-of-the-border friends, two attractions with Miguel Mateos at the Rio and Los Enanitos Verdes at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay

*Party Patrol: Actors Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do) and Columbus Short (“Stomp the Yard’ with Ne-Yo) will host their Quarantine horror-movie release party at Tao nightclub in the Venetian – and its No. 1 box-office ranking in its first weekend of release … Cohutta -- first seen on Real World Sydney -- is still on TV’s The Island, competing in the latest Real World/Road Rules Challenge, but he'll be hanging out live at Prive nightclub in Planet Hollywood. He’ll be joined by up-and-coming actor Justin Chatwin from War of the Worlds, and the upcoming S.Darko release celebrating his 26th birthday at the hotspot.

Photo: Palms Place

UFC exec Dana White and fighter Chuck Liddell.

Satuurday

*Tickets go on sale this morning for three extraordinary UFC fights on one final 2008 card taking place Dec. 27 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. UFC light heavyweight champion and the original Ultimate Fighter, Forrest Griffin, will defend his belt against Season 2 Ultimate Fighter Rashad “Sugar” Evans, who just KO’d former champion Chuck Liddell. Then the grudge match between two former champs, MMA legend Wanderlei Silva will battle Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and heavyweight champ Frank Mir will continue his pursuit of two titles fighting interim champion Antonio “Minotauro” Nogueira. “We are ending the year with a fight card like no other,” says UFC president Dana White, proudly.

Allison Duck

A none-too-proud Parrothead.

*It’s the second consecutive weekend for Parrotheads and their royal leader, Jimmy Buffett, who plays with his Coral Reefer Band at the MGM Grand.

*An attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the most consecutive wheel-chair backflips, and a world record for the largest number achieved in 60-seconds, will take place at the Doc Romeo Skatepark starting at 11.30 a.m. Aaron Fotheringham will try for the win in both categories -- and when he’s completed the task, the 10-event amateur Red Bull Vegas Am-Jam for skateboarders and BMX fans gets going.

*Hold onto your seatbelts because rockers STS9 are joined by the Pnuma Trio for a beat-pounding night at the Hard Rock Hotel, and Slaughter makes a killing of the “Wild Life” at the Sunset Station, while Chiodus and Silverstein “Escape the Fate” with Alesana in a four-act rock marathon at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay.

*Actor Matt Dallas of Kyle XY celebrates his birthday at the Tao nightclub in The Venetian, while Playboy model and Vegas hometown hottie Jessie Preston will welcome 30 beautiful Miss Mexico US-Latino contestants to a party at the Stripfront Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile.

Sunday

*Famous underwater seascape artist Chris Wyland makes a rare four-hour appearance starting at noon in his Wyland Gallery at Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile.

*The Freaks Come Out sexy costume party is being held at the Playboy Club in the Palms and the topless dancers of Spearmint Rhino adult club will host wearing as little as legally possible.

*Jamband Moksha perform at the Beatles Revolution ultra-lounge in The Mirage.

MONDAY’S TEASE:

There will be just five days remaining in our Criss countdown to the world premiere of Cirque du Soleil’s Believe show, and Luxe Life has an exclusive conversation with Luxor president Felix Rappaport. He has the $100 million-plus bet riding on the shows success, and I’ll join him to watch the show as it reaches its final four preview nights before next Friday’s gala. We’ll have the full photo report of sexy Kim Kardashian’s Vegas visit, and later in the week our full gory and glorious ghostly guide to all the horrific Halloween happenings on and off the Strip.

COMING NEXT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1: Our brand-new state-of-technology multimedia Web site -- Vegas DeLuxe -- is on its way with daily 24/7 breaking news updates for all the luxury lifestyle secrets of Vegas plus all the latest celebrity happenings all over the Strip.

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