Las Vegas Weekly

June 11, 2009 · 1:03 PM

Strip Scribbles: Holly Madison names her new puppy Napoleon

By Robin Leach

Holly Madison at CHI Theater in Planet Hollywood.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

The Girls Next Door and Playboy beauty Holly Madison has purchased a Pekinese puppy and named him Napoleon. “He is so cute! I just fell in love with him immediately. But he’s got a powerful little attitude about him, so that’s why I gave him the name,” she laughed as she told me at last night’s CineVegas Film Festival opening at Planet Hollywood. “I’m lobbying to have him in the video we have to shoot next week for the opening sequence of Peepshow.”

Holly takes over from General Hospital and fellow Dancing With the Stars alumnus Kelly Monaco on June 22. Holly says rehearsals are going well and are four to five hours a day. She says she’s reached the halfway mark in the show rundown and is looking forward to rehearsing the closing number’s erotic bathtub scene!

Last night, Holly also went to see Jubilee!, and today she shoots the cover of our sister publication Las Vegas Weekly. Our roving editor Johnny Kats has been trailing her for a week for the in-depth story.

Holly told us at the premiere of Saint John of Las Vegas that her favorite all-time movie is Moulin Rouge, and although she hopes one day to land a movie role, her first priorities are Peepshow and her upcoming reality TV series to be filmed here in Las Vegas.

“I’ve moved into the penthouse here at Planet Hollywood and am bringing my stuff in suitcases from Los Angeles. Once it’s all here and Peepshow is moving along, I’m going to look for a proper home here, but it’s got to be Barbie pink!”

Photo: Palms

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and friends at "Ditch Fridays" at the Palms.

*Six-time world champion boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. will celebrate his patriotism this afternoon by wrapping his boxing gym in the American flag and also to honor Flag Day taking place this Sunday. Floyd says the 16'2" x 8'2’’ flag also will be an inspiration as prepares for his July 18 welterweight showdown against Juan Manuel Marquez.

Floyd says it will be kept up through the night of the fight dubbed Mayweather vs. Marquez: Number One/Numero Uno. The 12-round welterweight bout will take place at MGM Grand and be broadcast live on pay-per-view. Our contributing photographer Erik Kabik will be at Floyd’s gym today, so check back here at Vegas DeLuxe for those photos.

Photo: N9NE Group

David Hasselhoff and friends at the Palms.

Star surveillance

America’s Got Talent judge David Hasselhoff worked out in the gym at Drift Spa inside Palms Place. … Dennis Hopper had lunch at Iron Chef Kerry Simon’s restaurant at Palms Place a table away from Jeremy Roenick of the San Jose Sharks, who will be a presenter at next week’s 2009 NHL Awards at the Palms. … Lifehouse partied at a VIP table in Moon at the Palms alongside NBA star Jermaine O’Neal of the Miami Heat. Upstairs at The Playboy Club, Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson checked out the scene and played blackjack.

2009 CineVegas tonight

Two live performances for film lovers at the Lounge in the Palms: At 10 p.m., animator and musician Brent Green and Alan Scalpone of The Bitter Tears will present a collection of films, Watts and Volts From Across a Field, accompanied by live music. At midnight, as part of his 55-city dates, Davy Rothbart will share his newest treasures from his Denim and Diamonds Tour.

Photo: Coast Casinos

Singer Engelbert Humperdinck.

Tonight’s tips

Lightning crashes at the pools of the Palazzo when Live performs its chart-topping hits. The band, led my frontman Ed Kowalczyk, has recorded seven albums and sold 20 million copies and will hang out afterward with VIP guests. … Cracker performs poolside in a free concert at Voodoo Beach in The Rio. The band’s 10th album Sunrise in the Land of Milk & Honey was released last month. … The King of Romance Engelbert Humperdinck begins a four-night run at The Orleans Showroom singing the love song hits from his 64 gold and 24 platinum albums, and you can bet that “Release Me” and “After the Loving” will be included. Ladies, I know he sings “There Goes My Everything,” but please resist the urge to throw your panties and the room key!

An artist rendering of First Food & Bar, which will begin satisfying our drunken cravings this June at the Palazzo.

Tomorrow’s teases

CineVegas continues onward with the Hollywood invasion of honored stars. … The Royal Robin Rundown has all the other highlights throughout the entertainment capital this weekend. … The new 702.tv launches with a poolside party at the Palms, and another new restaurant, First Food & Bar, opens for business at the Palazzo.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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