Bette News

If there's one constant in Las Vegas, it's change. Every year, the city bids farewell to one crop of performers to make way for another wave in the endless pursuit of giving visitors more reasons to come back.

For the first week of August, as has been the custom this year, is a member of the League of Themselves - those real life people who appear as themselves in fictional settings on television.

For the first week of August, as has been the custom this year, is a member of the League of Themselves - those real life people who appear as themselves in fictional settings on television.

Kathy Griffin, left, and Bette Midler are shown in Midler's gift shop at Caesars Palace in a scene from Griffin's "My Life on the D-List." Jeff Dunham will perform at Caesars Palace today and Saturday, while Mike Epps, below, leads "Uncle Sam's Comedy Jam" into the Orleans Arena on Saturday.

When it came time to find a young actress to assume the role of the twins for the 1998 remake of the film "The Parent Trap," an exhaustive casting search occurred throughout the USA, Canada.... When it came time to find a young actress to assume the role of the twins for the 1998 remake of the film "The Parent Trap," an exhaustive casting search ...

W hen I last went to Las Vegas almost four years ago, I made a list of reasons I'd never return: expensive; garish; badly dressed people; horrible traffic; too many ventriloquist, impressionist and magician shows; taxes and service charges on everything ; the feeling you're being had.

Bette Midler admits it takes a little work to keep her show on the Las Vegas Strip fresh a ' especially now that it's hit its 100th performance.

Nurse Jackie 10:30 pm/ET Showtime Showtime might have just the right prescription for summertime-viewing blahs.

"IN THE theater there are no friends," said ballet's Serge Diaghilev. Hmm, sounds like a line from "The Red Shoes." LONG AGO this space predicted that "Billy Elliott" would win an unprecedented number of Tony nominations on Broadway and this delicious show from London has now garnered 15 nominations -- tying the record set by "The Producers" in ...