* Lift fear of Westlife's Nicky
Wed, 15 Sep 2004
Westlife's Nicky Byrne apparently had to change hotels in Las Vegas
because he doesn't like lifts that have no windows.
The Irish foursome were checked in to the Four Seasons hotel while
they shot their new swing video.
But their rooms were on the 48th floor and The Sun says he doesn't
like lifts without windows because he feels too enclosed.
The paper says he checked out and took a room on the tenth floor of
the adjoining Mandalay Bay hotel.
A source said: "Nicky was mortified. He can manage if it's not too
far but 48 floors is full on."
Westlife are in Vegas to perform at the World Music Awards.
Source: www.ananova.com
Credit: [westlifes_castle]
Mon, 13 Sep 2004
Las Vegas Newspaper (About Westlife)
Chalk up another Vegas victory in the international glitter-and-glamour sweepstakes.
Monte Carlo's loss is Vegas' gain this week at the World Music Awards, which ABC will telecast live at 6 p.m. Wednesday from the Thomas & Mack Center. (Naturally, we Pacific time zone types will get the program in prime-time tape delay format.)
For 15 years, the awards show -- which honors the world's best-selling recording artists -- emanated from a swank 900-seat venue in Monte Carlo.
But ABC "wanted the show live," explains Melissa Corken, the awards show's creator and executive producer. And because the broadcast would show up on the American network a month after the event -- and a month after media coverage of same -- "we lost a little heat," Corken acknowledges.
And while "it's hard to beat the sparkle and glamour of Monte Carlo," Corken says, "if any city could match it, it would be Las Vegas."
The move to Las Vegas has "upgraded our production a thousand percent," she notes, accounting for a bigger stage, equipped with futuristic video screens.
"Vegas makes everything easier," according to the producer.
Including honoring Caesars Palace headliner Celine Dion with a Diamond Award, commemorating sales of more than a hundred million albums.
The World Music Awards began courting Dion for the event a few years ago, but she couldn't travel to Monte Carlo to accept the award because of her ongoing Caesars stint. Now that the event has moved to Las Vegas, she can. (Oscar-winning Michael Douglas is expected to present Dion's award.)
Turning to another Vegas showcase, CBS' upcoming "Dr. Vegas" series returns this week to shoot more Strip vistas. On a previous visit, cameras captured on night-time panoramas; this time the focus is on sunrise and sunset views.
And it's all over but the editing at "The Club," Spike TV's reality series, which completed a six-week shoot Saturday at Ice.
Crews will return for pick-up shots this weekend, but the eleven remote cameras installed for the show are being removed, according to marketing director Marc Jay, who convinced producers to set the show at Ice in the first place.
"I think the first couple weeks" the cameras were there, "people didn't act the same," Jay notes, citing undeniable self-consciousness. Eventually, however, club personnel got "so used the cameras being here, it's part of the staff."
As for what viewers will see once the show debuts Oct. 12, "it's definitely going to make fantastic television," Jay predicts -- especially in the 10-part series' fifth episode, when the owner arrives and fires his entire seven-member management team.
The reality beat goes on with KAOS Entertainment's one-hour Travel Channel special devoted to the annual Las Vegas BikeFest, which brings thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts to Glitter City.
"Las Vegas is such an exciting place to be," says producer Jeff Copeland, who's been interviewing bikers across country about their reasons for coming to Las Vegas for the event, which runs Thursday through Sunday.
As one rider told him, " `If you can't have fun in Vegas, you just can't have fun,' " Copeland recalls.
In addition to focusing on two biker couples -- one from Arizona, one from Hawaii -- planning to ride in Friday's Poker Run, the show will capture the wedding of a St. Louis couple at the Little White Chapel.
Two Canadian documentaries also turn up on this week's location calendar.
"Las Vegas/Quebec" profiles French Canadians living in Las Vegas -- many of them working in various Cirque du Soleil productions on the Strip or with Quebec native Celine Dion at Caesars.
"We are telling the story of these people," according to production coordinator Arianne Dorval of La Presse-Telé, which is producing the documentary for Canada's French national television network. This week's locations include All-American and Sunset parks.
And Vancouver-based Citytv visits Las Vegas for an episode of "Pink Planet," a 13-episode series aimed at gay and lesbian travelers.
"Pink Planet's" Southern Nevada itinerary ranges from Lake Las Vegas to Red Rock Canyon, local dance clubs to "Zumanity," according to producer John Thornton.
And a music video for the the U.K. boy band Westlife -- which just hit No. 1 on Britain's first official music download chart -- also hits town this week. A one-day second-unit shoot is planned for the video, "Smile," which aims to capture a Rat Pack-era Vegas vibe.
Returning to Vegas-based projects, four reality shows continue production this week: A&E's "Caesars" at Caesars Palace, Discovery's "American Casino" at Station Casinos' Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, the syndicated "Ultimate Poker Challenge" at downtown's Plaza and the Food Network's documentary on the imminent arrival of Chef Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill at Caesars.
Speaking of the Food Network, cameras will roll Sunday afternoon at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as seven culinary students battle for the right to represent Las Vegas in next month's "Almost Famous" chef's contest to be held at Mandalay Bay.
Local finalists Lindsay Harbrook, Shannon Kuprewicz, Heidi Apso, Josh Green, Christopher Lindsay, Xing Han Ye and Stephan Gallanders will cook up a storm from noon to 2 p.m. at UNLV's William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration.
Four local chefs -- Lupo's Mark Ferguson, Valentino's Luciano Pellegrini, Aureole's Philippe Rispoli and Panevino's Vincenzo LoVerso -- join John Fredericks of KVBC-TV, Channel 3, on the judging panel.
The winner of Sunday's cook-off will compete against students from Chicago, Dallas, New York, Miami and San Francisco. Las Vegas-based Media Underground will provide camera and editing facilities for the local challenge and the October nationals, both of which are produced by Robin Leach's Leach Entertainment Enterprises for an hourlong fall Food Network special
Westlife's Nicky Byrne apparently had to change hotels in Las Vegas
because he doesn't like lifts that have no windows.
The Irish foursome were checked in to the Four Seasons hotel while
they shot their new swing video.
But their rooms were on the 48th floor and The Sun says he doesn't
like lifts without windows because he feels too enclosed.
The paper says he checked out and took a room on the tenth floor of
the adjoining Mandalay Bay hotel.
A source said: "Nicky was mortified. He can manage if it's not too
far but 48 floors is full on."
Westlife are in Vegas to perform at the World Music Awards.
Source: www.ananova.com
Credit: [westlifes_castle]
Mon, 13 Sep 2004
Las Vegas Newspaper (About Westlife)
Chalk up another Vegas victory in the international glitter-and-glamour sweepstakes.
Monte Carlo's loss is Vegas' gain this week at the World Music Awards, which ABC will telecast live at 6 p.m. Wednesday from the Thomas & Mack Center. (Naturally, we Pacific time zone types will get the program in prime-time tape delay format.)
For 15 years, the awards show -- which honors the world's best-selling recording artists -- emanated from a swank 900-seat venue in Monte Carlo.
But ABC "wanted the show live," explains Melissa Corken, the awards show's creator and executive producer. And because the broadcast would show up on the American network a month after the event -- and a month after media coverage of same -- "we lost a little heat," Corken acknowledges.
And while "it's hard to beat the sparkle and glamour of Monte Carlo," Corken says, "if any city could match it, it would be Las Vegas."
The move to Las Vegas has "upgraded our production a thousand percent," she notes, accounting for a bigger stage, equipped with futuristic video screens.
"Vegas makes everything easier," according to the producer.
Including honoring Caesars Palace headliner Celine Dion with a Diamond Award, commemorating sales of more than a hundred million albums.
The World Music Awards began courting Dion for the event a few years ago, but she couldn't travel to Monte Carlo to accept the award because of her ongoing Caesars stint. Now that the event has moved to Las Vegas, she can. (Oscar-winning Michael Douglas is expected to present Dion's award.)
Turning to another Vegas showcase, CBS' upcoming "Dr. Vegas" series returns this week to shoot more Strip vistas. On a previous visit, cameras captured on night-time panoramas; this time the focus is on sunrise and sunset views.
And it's all over but the editing at "The Club," Spike TV's reality series, which completed a six-week shoot Saturday at Ice.
Crews will return for pick-up shots this weekend, but the eleven remote cameras installed for the show are being removed, according to marketing director Marc Jay, who convinced producers to set the show at Ice in the first place.
"I think the first couple weeks" the cameras were there, "people didn't act the same," Jay notes, citing undeniable self-consciousness. Eventually, however, club personnel got "so used the cameras being here, it's part of the staff."
As for what viewers will see once the show debuts Oct. 12, "it's definitely going to make fantastic television," Jay predicts -- especially in the 10-part series' fifth episode, when the owner arrives and fires his entire seven-member management team.
The reality beat goes on with KAOS Entertainment's one-hour Travel Channel special devoted to the annual Las Vegas BikeFest, which brings thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts to Glitter City.
"Las Vegas is such an exciting place to be," says producer Jeff Copeland, who's been interviewing bikers across country about their reasons for coming to Las Vegas for the event, which runs Thursday through Sunday.
As one rider told him, " `If you can't have fun in Vegas, you just can't have fun,' " Copeland recalls.
In addition to focusing on two biker couples -- one from Arizona, one from Hawaii -- planning to ride in Friday's Poker Run, the show will capture the wedding of a St. Louis couple at the Little White Chapel.
Two Canadian documentaries also turn up on this week's location calendar.
"Las Vegas/Quebec" profiles French Canadians living in Las Vegas -- many of them working in various Cirque du Soleil productions on the Strip or with Quebec native Celine Dion at Caesars.
"We are telling the story of these people," according to production coordinator Arianne Dorval of La Presse-Telé, which is producing the documentary for Canada's French national television network. This week's locations include All-American and Sunset parks.
And Vancouver-based Citytv visits Las Vegas for an episode of "Pink Planet," a 13-episode series aimed at gay and lesbian travelers.
"Pink Planet's" Southern Nevada itinerary ranges from Lake Las Vegas to Red Rock Canyon, local dance clubs to "Zumanity," according to producer John Thornton.
And a music video for the the U.K. boy band Westlife -- which just hit No. 1 on Britain's first official music download chart -- also hits town this week. A one-day second-unit shoot is planned for the video, "Smile," which aims to capture a Rat Pack-era Vegas vibe.
Returning to Vegas-based projects, four reality shows continue production this week: A&E's "Caesars" at Caesars Palace, Discovery's "American Casino" at Station Casinos' Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, the syndicated "Ultimate Poker Challenge" at downtown's Plaza and the Food Network's documentary on the imminent arrival of Chef Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill at Caesars.
Speaking of the Food Network, cameras will roll Sunday afternoon at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as seven culinary students battle for the right to represent Las Vegas in next month's "Almost Famous" chef's contest to be held at Mandalay Bay.
Local finalists Lindsay Harbrook, Shannon Kuprewicz, Heidi Apso, Josh Green, Christopher Lindsay, Xing Han Ye and Stephan Gallanders will cook up a storm from noon to 2 p.m. at UNLV's William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration.
Four local chefs -- Lupo's Mark Ferguson, Valentino's Luciano Pellegrini, Aureole's Philippe Rispoli and Panevino's Vincenzo LoVerso -- join John Fredericks of KVBC-TV, Channel 3, on the judging panel.
The winner of Sunday's cook-off will compete against students from Chicago, Dallas, New York, Miami and San Francisco. Las Vegas-based Media Underground will provide camera and editing facilities for the local challenge and the October nationals, both of which are produced by Robin Leach's Leach Entertainment Enterprises for an hourlong fall Food Network special
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