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Apr. 23, 2008
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NORM: Oprah summons LV impersonator

NORM CLARKE
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Larry Edwards, a longtime Tina Turner impersonator, is over the moon, and his feet won't be touching earth any time soon.

He received a call Tuesday from Oprah Winfrey's producer informing him that he will be among some tribute artists who have been invited to be part of the show Oprah is taping with Turner and Cher.

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    • The producers told Edwards, a fixture for years in "An Evening at LaCage" at the Riviera, they want a "very Vegas" show featuring faux Tinas and Chers.

    The show will air on CBS on May 8.

    PUPPY LOVE

    Timing is everything. Ask Alicia Jacobs, KVBC-TV, Channel 3 entertainment reporter.

    She was interviewing Donny Osmond in a Flamingo suite on Monday when her cell phone went off.

    Osmond immediately recognized the ringtone, put an arm around Jacobs and starting singing her the lyrics of "Puppy Love," his big hit of 1972, when he was 14.

    Jacobs, a dog lover, had the ringtone installed to remind her of the nickname of her miniature dachshund, Bojangles, after Sammy Davis Jr.'s classic.

    THE SCENE AND HEARD

    Local model Sarah Larson generated some early buzz at the AFAN AIDS Walk on Sunday. Just before the event started, George Clooney's galpal came on stage at the World Market Center and made a $25,000 donation. Event hosts Penn & Teller matched their walk team's fundraising efforts with a donation of $50,500, bringing the Rio headliners' total to $101,000. More than 7,500 walk participants raised more than $500,000. ...

    That Enormous Norm-a-thon benefit for Mary Kaye Trio co-founder Norman Kaye raised almost $20,000, thanks to the 34 entertainers who put on a memorable show for 700 at The Orleans. Kaye, the last surviving member of the legendary lounge group, recently suffered a stroke and faces some serious financial issues. The Orleans picked up the tab for more than $10,000 in costs...

    Former Las Vegas photographer Don Pack died last week in St. George, Utah. He was 70. Pack was working as a photographer in Los Angeles in the early 1960s when he captured one of most enduring photos of the "Rat Pack." He moved to Las Vegas in 1994 and St. George in 2004.

    SIGHTINGS

    Andy Roddick and James Blake, among a group of tennis pros Monday at Jet (Mirage) for a bachelor party for tennis colleague Mardy Fish. Fish is marrying Stacey Gardner, a briefcase-holding model on the NBC hit gameshow "Deal or No Deal." Roddick was recently engaged to Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker. ... Rap pioneer Tone Loc, rocking the house at Jet (Mirage) on Monday with his two biggest hits, "Wild Thang" and "Funky Cole Medina." ... NFL Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas, dining with friends at N9NE Steakhouse (Palms) on Monday night. ... Boxing referee Joe Cortez, in the crowd at Bootlegger Bistro on Sunday, taking in a special appearance by former local headliner Bob Anderson, who joined host Dennis Bono in a duet. Cortez reffed the Joe Calzaghe-Bernard Hopkins title bout Saturday at Thomas & Mack Center.

    THE PUNCH LINE

    "Everyone's still talking about the pope's visit to Yankee Stadium. After the Mass, the Yankees retired Roman numeral XVI." -- David Letterman

    Norm Clarke can be reached at (702) 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com. Find additional sightings and more online at www.normclarke.com.



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    craig wrote on April 24, 2008 02:14 AM: Ok,
    "Skeptical," are you serious? Who told Norm about Alicia Jacobs & Donny Osmond? Like me, & everyone else, I'm guessing Norm saw the the "Puppy Love" thing happen while watching the channel 3 news!
    I saw it a couple of times myself, duh...


    Skeptical wrote on April 23, 2008 07:41 PM: Let's see...The phone JUST happens to go off when interviewing Donny Osmond....The tune JUST happens to be a Donny Osmond song...Then Norm JUST happens to get the story...Who told Norm? Donny?...I SMELL SHENANIGANS!!!!


    ryan winters wrote on April 23, 2008 07:10 PM: Alicia Jacobs. Hot, Hot, Hot! A beautiful woman who loves dogs enough to have Donny Osmond on her cell phone...I knew I loved that girl. Is she single?


    Karen wrote on April 23, 2008 05:31 PM: I've seen Alicia Jacobs & her dog on channel 3, she really seems like a huge animal lover!
    Hey, maybe they can give her dog, Bojangles the weather dog job?


    NOTME wrote on April 23, 2008 12:29 PM: I Hear that the lead ape from Planet of the Apes is going to impersonate Oprah,Oprah come out of the closet,you fool noboby


    Dave wrote on April 23, 2008 11:11 AM: I'm surprised Alicia Jacobs got an interview with Donny Osmond. She usually only gets interviews by 'putting out'. Osmond, being the nice Mormon boy he is, couldn't have fell for that - or could he?


    Me wrote on April 23, 2008 11:02 AM: Seems rather unprofessional of Alicia Jacobs, to have her cell phone on during an interview.


    cassie wrote on April 23, 2008 08:48 AM: About Sarah & her "donation": This is a MAJOR undertaking to clean up her image. Do you ever notice when an actor/performer misbehaves after rehab or a small amount of time out of the public eye, they come back with a donation or some charity work?? This is an old trick, but the mini van types LOVE it, and it usually works really well.

    Had she wanted to simply do it out of the goodness of her heart, a public announcement would not be needed. Had this been something she'd done before, quietly, we would say it gets press because of George, but all that time in Las Vegas and she never did this before??? This donation will also bring some attention back to her father and off of her crotch,(labia shots). This was purely for publicity to clean up her image, nothing more.

    Trash never cleans up well.


    Jan Barlow (Summerlin) wrote on April 23, 2008 07:10 AM: Drag impersonators on Oprah?
    That's got the freak the crap out of Tina and Cher.
    I'll watch. Who doesn't like the side show when the circus is in town?