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Conversation starters: From Lady Gaga to Shepard Smith

Las Vegas Weekly Staff

Wed, Sep 28, 2011 (4:54 p.m.)

Lady Gaga

Lady's choice

Lady Gaga, in town for the iHeartRadio Music Festival last weekend, checked out of the Cosmopolitan and instead booked a room at the Palms. Apparently, it’s because her Cosmo room didn’t have a private pool. Whew! For a second there, we worried it was because she thought the property just didn’t have the right amount of wrong.

Shepard Smith
Associated Press /

Strip sleaze

Fox News’ Shepard Smith is bringing Studio B and The Fox Report to Caesars Palace next week as part of Fox’s 15th anniversary. We consider this entirely appropriate. After all, the Strip is famous for fake versions of famous things. Why not fake national news as well?

Dr. Dipak Desai
Steve Marcus

Doctor my eye

Dr. Dipak Desai, the man at the center of the endoscopy clinic scandal of 2008 in which thousands of patients were exposed to hepatitis and HIV, has been declared competent to stand trial. He might want to mark this date—it may be the last time in his life that he’s declared competent for anything.

Liberace

Taking a lick at it

A local group launched a petition this week to get Liberace his own U.S. postage stamp. Well, color us surprised—people still use postage stamps? Who knew?

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