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Posted At : May 19, 2009 03:34 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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You've have to enlist Tom Stoppard if you were trying to script something as incredibly, comedically non-responsive as the following exchange between Peepshow producer Scott Zeiger and the Los Angeles Times' Richard Abowitz, regarding The Great Pasty Controversy of 2009:
A: Who is replacing Mel B or is she staying on?
Z: That role is undecided. I think Holly Madison will be great.
A: Does she sing?
Z: She has other talents.
A: What are they[?] Please feel free to say what they are.
Z: You can say what they are.
A: I can't say. All I know is she dated Hugh Hefner and Criss Angel. What is the talent in that?
Z: She was also on Dancing with the Stars and she is quite beautiful.
Peepshow star Mel B ... because she's hot and Holly Madison is not.
It's wise of Zeiger to simply say Madison was "on" DWTS, because it would be a painful stretch to say that she "danced." Then again, I doubt the Peepshow choreography will be anywhere near as demanding.
Actually, the best Zeiger quote comes higher up, when he says that the show's producers "are in Vegas and we are watching the audiences and evaluating the competition and deciding what is appropriate for the market."
Pardon my impertinence, but isn't that what you do in pre-production or, at the very latest, during the preview process ... not one month after opening? The Peepshow braintrust gives the impression that it's been in a Planet Hollywood biosphere and needs to get out more.
Speaking of boobs ... the Nevada Lege has slapped together its budgeterial Band-Aid for 2010 -- and it's a disgrace. As widely predicted, it's a slapdash assortment of hikes on existing taxes -- almost all of them regressive -- plus some robbing of Peter to pay Paul. Probably the single more reprehensible stopgap is the pillaging of a county-level fund to help indigent victims of auto accidents.
Of course, the counties will have raise this and other plundered monies somewhere, so the tax-hike ball just keeps a-bouncin' along. Casinos were spared an increase in the privilege tax, so that's one bullet dodged, but upping taxes regressively -- especially in tandem with salary cuts for teachers and other guvmint-paid folk -- means less discretionary income for many bread-and-butter casino patrons. So the gaming industry will take it in the shorts, after all.
State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford (D) has been making some noble noises about revisting Nevada's volatile revenue structure ... two years hence, when everybody's safely reelected. Unlike Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D), Horsford actually pushed for substantive changes this session.
But we've been hearing that arthritic "wait 'til next session" excuse for a long time now. If a recession of this magnitude -- one in which we learned that casinos, retail and tourism do not comprise a stable fiscal tripod -- doesn't bring us the long-promised re-examination of how Nevada pays for itself, nothing will. My money's on "nothing."
Your post is a little confusing regarding who Holly Madison is replacing. My understanding is that Kelly Monaco is leaving, and Madison is replacing her. I saw the show Monday night and can say it is excellent!
Your understanding is correct. A good thing you saw the show when you did because it does not look like Madison-for-Monaco is change we can believe in.
What is missing from the interview posted on my blog, Movable Buffet, and thus missing in the quoted form here is the hearty laugh that Zieger gave me when I asked what other talents Madison possessed. One of us was having a back-slapping, DUDE, moment, and the other was just a confused interviewer and I was not trying to be as obnoxious as I sound. At the time, I was baffled and he laughed harder at that and told me that I could say her talent like it was an inside joke we all knew; I could not. Total confusion. A publicist for Peepshow later got back to me that unlike Monaco, Madison is willing to show her boobs in "Peepshow." But is that a talent or a surgery? We will see. Thanks for reading. I always enjoy your blog. Yrs., Richard
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