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Apr. 27, 2008
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NORM: Tina Turner says she'll tour again

NORM CLARKE
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DJ Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan are good friends.



Iconic rocker Tina Turner announced a new tour during a taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

It may take some creative editing when Tina Turner announces her final tour on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on May 8.

Early in the taping Saturday before a Colosseum crowd of about 3,000 at Caesars Palace, Cher, the first guest, let the cat out of the bag when she let the tour news slip.

Later in the taping, it appeared a replacement segment was being shot with Turner so it would appear she was breaking the news.

Turner, 68, told Oprah that she was making her final tour, starting in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 1. She retired from major tours after her "Twenty Four Seven" world tour that grossed $80 million.

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    • The Oprah show airs May 8, two days after Cher opens her three-year, 200-show headliner residency deal at Caesars Palace.

    Turner said she's been getting antsy to return to the stage, but didn't get serious about it until she had a conversation with Italian film icon Sophia Loren in Milan, Italy. "She said 'When are you going back to work?'"

    Turner told Oprah, "You can't forget the fun, the lights and the people."

    Turner sang "Nutbush City Limits," an ode to her hometown in Tennessee, and teamed up with Cher to bring the house down with "Proud Mary" at the end of the taping.

    THE SCENE AND HEARD

    Lindsay Lohan didn't show up for gal pal Samantha Ronson's DJ appearance Friday for the grand opening of Torrid nightclub at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone inside the Planet Hollywood Resort. They were seen checking in and dining at Strip House (Planet Hollywood Resort) earlier Friday evening. ...

    The word from inside KLAS-TV, Channel 8 is that the search for the new owner of the station has been narrowed to one company and it is someone very familiar with KLAS. ...

    Turns out that this is the second time that Ted Binion's home has been up for sale since he was found dead in the den in 1998. It was to a Los Angeles resident for $750,000 in December 2002, or half of the listing price. The owner was asking $2.75 million last July before reducing it to today's listed price of $1.85 million. A Hollywood producer has expressed interest in renting it for a film, I'm told. ...

    NASCAR pit reporter Jamie Little won the 32nd annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in Long Beach last week and it was no fluke. The Green Valley High grad edged NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Mike Skinner by 0.324 seconds. The only other woman to win the event was Olympic gold medal swimmer Dara Torres, another Las Vegan, in 2002. Of course it helps that Little is co-owner of Pole Position Raceway, an indoor Las Vegas go-cart facility.

    SIGHTINGS

    Jessica Simpson and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, dining at AGO (Hard Rock Hotel) on Friday. ... Music star Pharrell Williams and members of his hip-hop group, N.E.R.D., at Tao (The Venetian) for dinner and clubbing. ... Los Angeles Angels pitcher Kelvim Escobar, on the injured list after winning 18 games last year, checking out The Bank nightclub (Bellagio) on Friday.

    THE PUNCH LINE

    This is another case of immigrants taking a job that Americans don't want." -- Craig Ferguson, the Scot-born CBS talk show host who addressed the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday.

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



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    confused wrote on April 28, 2008 12:49 AM: Your newest info on Tony & Jess doesn't make sense. How can they have a group hug on Friday nite because Fasano was not traded till Saturday & you stated also said Sunday?? How can they say goodbyes at AGO on Friday???
    Is this just all guys & Jessica?? Were there no other women??
    Something doesn't fit!!! lol


    Henderson wrote on April 27, 2008 05:54 PM: Nickey, you are getting your religions mixed up. Either that, or your sense of humor is severely lacking. Comments like yours merely show your ignorance and intolerance.


    bib wrote on April 27, 2008 04:43 PM: Better hope it not that nut Jim Rogers.... the ship will sink


    tim wrote on April 27, 2008 03:42 PM: what the hell is that SAMANTHA a {HESHE} another fulfilled promising career spinning records and another final tour AGAIN & AGAIN CHER; CELINE;MADONNA; what a waste of $$$$$$.


    kindascary wrote on April 27, 2008 11:44 AM: Samantha Ronson looks like Boy George in drag,you got yourself a real winner lindsey,we know who's wearin the stap on


    Nickey wrote on April 27, 2008 11:30 AM: So the un-named buyer of KLAS is a group familair with the TV Station.
    Who could it be?
    Mormons?

    Will the station become a secret compound? How many wives does Dave McCann really have?
    Will the call name become KLDS?

    Don't drink the Koolaid!


    Pedro wrote on April 27, 2008 10:06 AM: Lohan has brought new meaning to opening her 'liquor cabinet'. Wow - never saw that coming. I think it is nothing more than "Ellen Envy" - LOL


    The Man wrote on April 27, 2008 09:58 AM: Las Vegas has turned from the Entertainment Capital of the World to "The Elephant Graveyard". Elephants have innate instinct to walk to a certain area of Africa to lie down and die for some reason. Las Vegas is the same thing. And the dumb tourists come and pay $100+ to watch these aging off-key, overweight, plastic surgery ridden singers give it one more shot. I am sick and tired of it. Tom Jones, Cher, Tina Turner, Wayne Newton, the list goes on and on. Nostalgia is one thing, watching the Senior Citizen brigade is another.


    GOD wrote on April 27, 2008 09:53 AM: The aging Bette...
    followed by the aging Cher...
    followed by the aging Tina...
    Oh Vey!


    Prudential wrote on April 27, 2008 09:30 AM: This idiot LA doctor thinks he can flip Binion's old house for more than double in a down market? Ha! Ha! I'm glad he knows his Organic Chemistry, because he doesn't no squat about real estate. LOL


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