THIS WEEK FEATURING: Sexiest "Fantasy" at Luxor, CultureShocks.com, Tony Danza in The Producers, Stoney's Rockin Country, Fatwa Against Robert Spencer, Photoshop World Conference & Expo, Movies This Week, International Remote Viewing Conference, Paul Rodriguez in Primm on September 22, and more…

Fantasy at Luxor. The seductive adult revue at Luxor celebrated its two-year anniversary on Wednesday, August 22 with an entirely new, terrific production. It is much sexier and edgier. I really enjoyed it! The private event served as the backdrop for the unveiling of the 2008 FANTASY Calendar—a sports-themed calendar featuring the all-star FANTASY line-up. During the VIP event, the cast of FANTASY debuted new dance numbers "All Night," "Sexy Thing," "Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy," "Kiss Me," "Night Time" and "Damsel in Distress." Absolutely fabulous lead singer Stephanie Jordan (pictured) performed several original songs.

The entire FANTASY cast attended the FANTASY 2008 Calendar Party at the Luxor Pool, along with the show's multi award-winning producer Anita Mann, choreographer Cris Judd and Tiger Martina, music director Darren Sher and FANTASY comedian Sean Cooper. I will admit that the choreography has improved greatly under the guidance of Judd and Martina. The new numbers are very sexy and Jordan is not only beautiful, but has a very charming rapport with the audience.

Cris Judd, with several friends, sat between two women right in front of me. No one bothered him. He was called out from the stage by Anita Mann, but his privacy was respected. Celebrities should be told that at certain VIP events in Las Vegas, no one approaches them. I always say, unless I get invited back to their suite, I'm not impressed with bragging I said hello to a celebrity.

FANTASY performances are Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:30 p.m.; Tuesday at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. and Saturday at 11 p.m. Tickets are $45, $50, $55 and $59 plus tax and handling fees. Guests must be 18 years of age or older. To fulfill a fantasy, call (702) 262-4400 or visit www.luxor.com.

Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn. Pat Robertson said of Culture Shocks Barry Lynn, "Barry Lynn is an intolerant jerk." So I was thrilled to be invited to spend one hour with Barry talking about movies on Thursday, August 23rd. According to Barry's producer Dianne Robinson, Barry (when not being a hellraiser) "is a huge movie consumer and sees them all when they come out." I had an absolutely terrific time with Barry who allowed me free range to express my opinions about torture-porn movies, the industry's disregard for female critics, and sadism in our culture. Barry promised me we could talk about homoeroticism in movies next time.


Culture Shocks takes a daily look at the outrageous conduct of those trying to undermine Americans' personal liberties. Along with guests from across the ideological, religious, and political spectrum, Culture Shocks examines current and perennial controversies that cut to the core of American values. Culture Shocks is a "progressive" radio show out of Washington, DC.

Culture Shocks is aired in Los Angeles, Monterey, California, Boston, Washington, DC, Daytona Beach, Florida and Nashville and covers social, political and cultural issues. Barry heads a group in Washington, DC called Americans United for Separation of Church and State. www.cultureshocks.com

Photoshop World Conference & Expo. The official dates for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo are September 6 through 8 at Mandalay Bay. My New York friend Chuck Walker has been to several Photoshop Conferences around the country and will be coming to Las Vegas for the Photoshop Conference. (Photo of Chuck from my series "The Men Who Stare at Fake People.")

Photoshop is the future of photography and, with a little practice, you too can erase 10 years of hard living from your photographs.

The schedules for both the conference and the expo include great classes and events, and some fantastic Photoshop World firsts such as a Photoshop World Job Fair; the Photoshop® CS3 Extended, Photoshop® Lightroom™, and Adobe® web tools learning tracks. There will be a free digital portraiture pre-con class on Wednesday evening, September 5th.

The special three Wednesday workshops are Canon Live Studio, Digital Photography Workshop, and Beginner's Intro to Using Digital SLRs.

The Canon Live Studio Workshop will be held 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m. With a live model shoot, you will learn the proper use of flash, light modifiers, and how to light and pose a model. Photoshop Hall of Famer Eddie Tapp processes the images in real-time demonstrating the latest Photoshop, digital workflow, and printing secrets the pros use.

Digital Photography Workshop will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. You will discover how to streamline your digital photography workflow and get amazing final prints from a renowned commercial advertising photographer with over 25 years of experience. You'll leave with a complete understanding of color calibration and profiling, digital capture tonal control, image compositing, file archiving and storage.

Beginner's Intro to Using Digital SLRs—Buttons & Dials...Click! Workshop will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This workshop will teach you everything you do not understand about the buttons and dials of today's D-SLR cameras. This workshop promises you will leave with a full understanding of what each function on your camera is and, more importantly, what they do. Not only will the workshop explore the buttons and dials, it will go one step further with a lesson on the basics of digital photography. Photoshop World Update

Tony Danza in "The Producers" at Paris Las Vegas. On Thursday night I went to the VIP/Media night celebrating Tony Danza joining "The Producers" as Max Bialystock. Our seats were in the 6th row center! Danza began his 18-week engagement in Las Vegas on August 13. He previously played Max on Broadway. There was an after-party at Paris nightclub Risque.

"The Producers" Las Vegas production opened with David Hasselhoff as temperamental director Roger DeBris. Danza steps into the starring role as Bialystock and clearly enjoys the part of a rascal producer. Since he did the show on Broadway, he has the role down pat and has terrific chemistry with his co-star Larry Raben who plays Leo Bloom. Raben also played Bloom on Broadway so this is a perfect match. Once again, seeing the show-stopping "Springtime for Hitler" is the highlight of "The Producers."

"The Producers" has a score by Mel Brooks, and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, the show features sets by Robin Wagner, costumes by William Ivey Long, and lighting by Peter Kaczorowski. The Las Vegas production, which opened on January 31 of this year, runs 90 minutes. Show Time: 8 p.m. Ticket prices are $69.00–$143.50.

Stoney's Rockin' Country. When we lived in Santa Fe, we would go out CW dancing on Friday nights at Rodeo Nights on Cerrillos Road (now closed). I even made John take CW dancing lessons with me! So I got out with my CW twirl skirt and Zimbabwe cowboy hat for the 7–9 p.m. VIP Grand Opening of Stoney's Rockin' Country on Friday night.

This was Stoney's 2nd Grand Opening since the first, last Friday, was halted due to a computer glitch! It was worth the wait!

John, who had been out of town lecturing at the Army War College for the Faux Grand Opening, was able to join Lewis Barlow and my newest friend, nFusion's Debbie Tham (pictured).

At more than 20,000 sq. ft. of honky tonk Country Western fun, Stoney's has a 2,500 sq. ft. hardwood dance floor and a state of the art sound system for live entertainment.

Stoney's opened to the public at 9 p.m. Stoney's has two full service bars, star DJs, coin-operated pool tables, a mechanical bull, dance lessons, and go-go dancers. Other bar highlights include three 44-foot mini bowling lanes and four pool tables. Situated in the corner is a western staple, a mechanical bull with bleacher seating for optimal viewing. In the center of the action are two raised VIP seating areas, including the Cowboy Ultra-lounge with plush cow print wing-backed seats and access to bottle service.

Scheduled activities include nightly bull riding contests and line dancing classes every Thursday, Friday and Saturday beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday night is also Ladies Night featuring $1 drink specials. Fifteen dollar all-you-can-drink draft beer is available Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Nightly cover depends upon scheduled entertainment.

With over 1,200 parking spaces Stoney's is the newest hot place for locals and tourists. Stoney's is located on the Las Vegas Strip approximately 3 miles away from the Mandalay Bay and 1/2 mile away from the new SouthPoint. So, it's time to get out of that rehearsal studio and show off those CW dance lessons. Stoney's Rockin' Country, 9155 S. Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89123. (702) 435-2855. Stoney's Rockin' Country • Las Vegas, Nevada

The International Remote Viewing Association. IRVA is holding its next conference from October 19th–21st, 2007 at the Alexis Park Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Among the prestigious speakers is my dear friend Jacques Vallee. Dr. Vallee's talk is called "The Software of Consciousness: Personal recollections from the early days of the remote viewing program." irvaconference.org

Dr. Vallee was a senior researcher at the DARPA-funded Augmentation Research Center at SRI at the very beginning of the RV program initiated by Dr. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ in 1971. Given his long-standing interest in consciousness research, Jacques became informally associated with the program and is credited by Ingo Swann for suggesting the approach that led to the coordinate remote viewing protocol. Over the following decades, Jacques remained as a friend of the RV project. www.jacquesvallee.net


In the mid-eighties, Dr. Vallee was brought back to SRI as a consultant. He was cleared for Grill Flame, went through formal training with Ingo Swann, and contributed to the methodology research that Dr. Ed May later led at SAIC. His experience spans the entire life of the program and gives him a special position as an observer and commentator on the reality of remote viewing.

Jacques F. Vallee, Ph.D., serves as a General Partner of a Silicon Valley group that invests in North America and Europe, primarily in high-technology. He was born in France, where he received a B.S. in mathematics at the Sorbonne and an M.S. in astrophysics at Lille University. (Photo of Jacques Vallee, Janine Vallee and Dr. Edgar Mitchell taken in 1996 at Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science Scientific Advisory Board dinner. www.nidsci.org

Paul Rodriguez. The Original Latin King of Comedy, Paul Rodriguez, will be at Star of the Desert Arena in Primm on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 8 p.m. Tickets are priced at $19.95 and $29.95, plus applicable tax and fees, and are available at the Buffalo Bill's Box Office and Ticketmaster outlets.

Comedian Paul Rodriguez' career has spanned more than two decades and includes starring roles and featured appearances in over 30 films and countless television series and specials. He has performed his live stand-up comedy to well over one million concert goers from coast to coast. Primm Valley Casino Resorts, located 25 minutes south of Las Vegas on Interstate 15 at the Southern Nevada/California state line, include Buffalo Bill's Resort Casino. Visit the Web site at www.primmvalleyresorts.com.

Movies This Week. The Last Legion (NO), The Invasion (NO), Resurrecting The Champ (YES).

The Invasion. Don't join The Hive. Don't become part of The Universal Mind. Stay a violent human with your own selfish agenda. They found the one woman on the planet who isn't turned on by the sexy 007 Daniel Craig. If you ask me, Nicole Kidman sabotaged Craig from taking the movie away from her by barely glancing at him. Why not just cast Paul Giamatti if you don't want sexual chemistry on the screen?

Casting Kidman with Craig must have looked good on paper and poster, but Craig plays a very minor, uninteresting role. He mostly stands in the background. Designed as a Kidman-starring vehicle, The Invasion is an updated version of Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But they dumped The Pod! NO one says, "What happened? Did a pod take your place?"

How did screenwriter David Kajganich ruin this classic? He, or the "they" who tinkered with it afterwards, gave The Invasion a happy ending! With 2012 soon upon us and threats of another September 11 coming, an antidote is found to the alien invasion!

Everything goes back to normal—all bad alien infestation memories are erased—and all is good with the world.

Kidman plays a non-emotional psychiatrist separated from her husband. She is raising their son Oliver alone. Carol has a platonic relationship with a very desirable doctor, played by Daniel Craig. Her unhappy marriage has distanced her from happiness and sex with Ben. When Oliver brings home a weird living tissue, they give it to a hospital technician who tells them it is not a vigilant form of the flu but something far more sinister. The "flu virus" turns people into complacent zombies with a Universal Mind.

According to New Age philosophy and Mellen-Thomas Benedict's Near-Death Experience, we are all directly connected to The Source of Everything. We are part of the Higher Self Matrix. We are connected, as Benedict experienced firsthand, "as one being, all humans are connected as one being, we are actually the same being, different aspects of the same being." www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html

The Invasion says no to this. Stay human with all the bloodthirsty reptilian drives. Stay angry. And after the antidote is given to our heroine and her man? They become a robotic happy family!

"Invasion" Trailer [02:27]

"Non-Sanctioned" Fatwa Against Robert Spencer. To prove my fearlessness, I attended 2 days of The Center for Strategic Analysis' 3-day seminar on "Know Your Enemy—Islam, Jihad and Terrorism" at a secret location. On Thursday, John spoke on the topic of "Future Conflict with Islam."

CSA's featured 2-day speaker, the really fearless zealot Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.org (pictured), has had a fatwa issued against him! Now there's a wanted list that has got to be hard to get on! A fatwa is a legal decree in sharia law (a religious ruling) requiring any Muslim to kill the "fatwaee" (I made up this word) if they had the chance. The faux-fatwa sent to Spencer had this as a closing line:

"May Allah rip out his spine from his back and split his brains in two, and then put them both back, and then do it over and over."

I asked Spencer about his fatwa. Spencer downplayed the fatwa as being "non-sanctioned." It's a technicality he's embracing. He was more impressed that Adam Gadahn personally invited him to join Islam. On September 2, 2006 a video called "Invitation to Islam" surfaced on various pro-al Qaeda Web sites. It featured a lecture by Gadahn.

In the video, Gadahn stated, "If the Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam consultants like Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Michael Scheuer, Steven Emerson, and yes, even the crusader-in-chief George W. Bush were to abandon their unbelief and repent and enter into the light of Islam and turn their swords against the enemies of God, it would be accepted of them and they would be our brothers in Islam." Both Pipes and Spencer have publicly declined to accept Gadahn's invitation to convert to Islam!

Spencer is on a lone campaign to tell Americans the truth about Islam. He scared the Hell out of me. And that's not easy to do. The Prophet said, "I looked into paradise and saw that the majority of its people were the poor, and I looked into the Fire and found that the majority of its people were women." (Bukhari Volume 8, Book 76, Number 554).

The Center for Strategic Analysis is a non-profit organization founded by Executive Director/ Founder Patrick Boylan as an educational endeavor to make the public and government aware of the true causes of terrorism and to be a source of insight and truth. For security reasons the exact location of the seminar was only shared with attendees who agreed not to share the location information with non-attendees. Email pboylan@centerforstrategicanalysis.org or call Patrick Boylan at 702.866.6466 for information regarding the next seminar. www.centerforstrategicanalysis.org

I'm Reading Books—So You Don't Have To! Well, perhaps none of you are interested in reading "History of Circumcision From the Earliest Times to the Present" by P.C. Remondino, but I am finding it fascinating! One in four adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released last week. Of those who did read, women and seniors were most avid, and religious works and popular fiction were the top choices. The typical reader claimed to have read four books in the last year—half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven.