Five Hundy by Midnight 86: Openings, Closings, Rumors and Tangents

/ Tim

This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:

  • Miss Congeniality 2 opening clip
  • Worst trivia ever
  • Las Vegas Playboy Club opening
  • Clint Holmes closes
  • Rita Rudner opens
  • Another MGM/Mirage headliner migrating to Harrah’s?
  • Sheldon Adelson is greedy/driven
  • Rolling Stone take on Las Vegas, loves crappy music
  • Congress protects us from the evils of gambling
  • Prince may be headed for Club Rio
  • Renovations to begin with Harrah’s?
  • Lady Luck by Paradise


Five Hundy By Midnight 10/1/06 (39:36 min, 36.4 MB)

26 thoughts on “Five Hundy by Midnight 86: Openings, Closings, Rumors and Tangents”

  2. Clint Holmes has a daughter? Every time we see his billboards, my girlfriend points to the words “Bill Payne, Musical Director” and suggests that their relationship is more than musical. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course.

  3. Darn it– it’s Lords of the New Church with the cover of “Like a Virgin,” not House of Lords. I knew the band had “Lords” in there somewhere.

  5. Mike: That’s exactly the response I was hoping for (and expecting).

    Dave: Your girlfriend is clearly brilliant. I’ve been known to make the same comment about Bill Payne, musical director. His credit on the Clint Holmes billboard just seemed a little too prominent.

    Drambuie: Wilson? Who the heck is Wilson? I referred to Nelson.

  7. Gates and Buffet are giving their fortunes away. All Adelson has to to to become the richest is not die. I’m sure that’s part of his ‘Monty Burns style’ devious plan.

    Nelson?!? Could you post a copy of the ticket so we can see where your seats were? If the name of the House of Lord’s album was Steak House, that would be really creepy.

    $10,000 a night to hang with a poker pro? Isn’t that the same program as the ‘escorts’ on trading cards they pass out on the street? I think we know what he is; now we know the price.

    I heard MGM Mirage is negoitating with Nelson to play at the ‘Rita Rudner Theatre’ at NY,NY.

  8. Tim> Does it matter really? Besides I told you I was dumber just for listening. Which one was made of like 12 year olds singing that M-bop song?

    Incedently, how does Michelle know that Montreal is filled with strip clubs and you do not?

  9. I understand that Prince and his wife have separated and she is staying in Toronto so the Prince rumour makes sense.

  14. Yeah, we’re having a bit of a shock and mourning time right now, even though we knew it would happen someday. Tim will try to post something later when he has non-work access to the site. And beer.

    There’s got to be more to it than the straight land swap– it doesn’t seem like an even trade to me. Wouldn’t Boyd hold out for more than that?

    The buy-out offer is interesting… but it’s hard to focus on that right now.

  15. Isnt this some kind of anti-trust violation? Seems like every time I turn around Harrahs has acquired new property. Couldnt this be considered a monopoly??

  16. The Tattoo Shop at O’Sheas has been under construction for several weeks.

    From The Strip, the left (north) side of O’Sheas has been closed and boarded up since at least the 17th of September. The building wall is cut through and has open uncovered studs.

    A wood construction wall has been put up along the sidewalk which has the following painted on it.

    The Only Tattoo Shop On The Strip. Get Inked. Opening October O’Sheas. Vince Neil Ink. We’re gonna leave a permanent mark.

  18. There is/was a tattoo parlor on the Strip between the late great Holy Cow and the Strat, east side of the street. Or isn’t that considered the Strip?

  19. This Internet Gambling bill is HORRIBLE!!!!!

    I am so pissed that it was snuck in to the friggin port bill. This would have never passed on its own merits.

    The one question I have is WHY? Who cares, Congress has many other more pressing issues to monitor beside IG.

    SOn of a bitch.

    Oh yeah, Tim. Nelson. You should be ashamed.

  20. Pat, I certainly do consider that location to be part of The Strip – so that is a good point you made. Later this week I may get a chance to go see if the tattoo parlor north of Sahara is still there.

    And while I am at it I ought to go and eat at that IHOP, just once, before that last surviving block on The Strip gets updated.

    On a $ per square foot basis, isn’t Bonanza gift shop also going to have to yield to something much larger in the near future?

    And I realize that I am digressing from the tatto thing, but while I am at it, what the hell is a Dresses For Less doing on The Strip?

  21. “What the hell is a Dresses For Less doing on The Strip?”

    So I can torture Tim every time we walk by with shopping chatter.

  22. Well, I listened on the airplane today – good stuff.

    I personally have no love for Sheldy – he blows goats but he’s also Mr. Litigation and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he sued me for talking smack.

    But, I actually plan to talk major smack in the next edition of my podcast because I love saying bad things about The Venetian.

    Seriously, great show, as always. I hope that you’ll review my ‘cast in an upcoming episode (and I’m available to do theme music if you dig it – hahaha).

  23. Hi Tim and Michelle,

    The internet gambling ban is going to kill the WSOP as the average Joe is no longer going to be able to play his/her way into it. How much this affects the poker rooms that have been put into just about every casino on the strip remains to be seen. The casinos can’t be happy as poker is pretty much a no-risk game for them. As for Bill Simmons saying that “Vegas is over”; it just means that Vegas has changed since he first started going there. He fell in love with Vegas as it was then, and can’t accept that it has always been changing. When he first started to go to Vegas, I’m sure the place was filled with people saying “Vegas is over, these new people don’t appreciate Vegas the way we do”. They just didn’t have as big a soapbox to yell it from has he does.

  25. Don’t know if it’s still there, but in Nov 2004 there was a tattoo parlor (I always think the parlor makes it sound a very masculine place) at the north end of the strip. All I remember is that it was just further up than Westward Ho.

  26. Gregg Giuffria moved to Las Vegas in the 90’s and was involved in helping invent the process that allowed slot machines to have more stops mathmatically/computer driven in each reel. in 2000 he was behind one of the first groups wanting to put a huge ferris wheel on The Strip, and more recently is co-founder of Hard Rock Biloxi (the one that got wiped out a few days before it opened).

    Congrats … bringing up Giuffria had a lot more Vegas and gaming connections then you may have imagined.

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