Vegas Confidential - Feb 11, 2007

As always, Las Vegas brings out the celebrities, and this weekend seemed to be a little slow in town. I wonder if everyone is home with that flu virus that is hitting the West coast hard this season. Norm Clarke reports his sightings.

Remember our Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees that got a little too personal in her pictures and had her crown taken away by Donald Trump? Well she seems to have taken a liking for Palms owner George Maloof, as they were seen together Saturday night at an event.

At the Alzheimers gala:Kevin Spacey, who was the surprise entertainer, and Laurence Fishburne, who is in town filming with Spacey for another two weeks. They are working on the Vegas-set thriller which is based on the non-fiction best-seller “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T Students who Took Vegas for Millions”…

At “The Producers” after-party at Paris Las Vegas on Friday: Billionaire Robert F.X. Sillerman, whose CMX enterprise that owns and manages the Elvis Presley rights and Tom Meehan, who co-wrote “The Producers” book with Brooks, as well as “Spaceballs.” Brooks and Meehan are collaborating on a musical based on “Young Frankenstein.” Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Susan Stroman, who attended Friday’s opener, will direct “Young Frankenstein.” Also there: Mel Brooks’ brother, Bernard Kaminsky, and wife, Bella, and their son, Mitchell Edwards, all of Las Vegas…

‘”Sopranos” star Lorraine Bracco, dining at Restaurant Guy Savoy (Caesars Palace) on Friday and dropping into Rao’s and Mesa Grill

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