It is unusual indeed for a singer to reinvent himself after a decades-long career and, when he does, to find acceptance. Case in point: Sir Tom Jones.

I must post a disclaimer up front. Not in the employ of Jones or his management, I am the owner/moderator of TomJonesInternational.com,...

The key word at CinemaCon is "celebrate." This is a celebration of movies, the people who make them and a celebration of the theater owners who show them. It is the one time each year when the movie exhibition industry gathers to thank the people who show their films and,...

There is a kind of irony in the fact that Las Vegas, Nevada -- located smack in the middle of the Mojave Desert -- hosted an event for One Drop, a non-profit whose mission is to "ensure that water is accessible to all, today and forever." But, as dry...

There is a story -- funny to non-residents and sad, but true, to many residents -- that when people in Las Vegas needed first-rate medical care, they began at McCarran Airport. There, they'd get on  a plane and go where good medicine could be found. Today that is no longer...

It all began with a milk carton.

"Fifteen years ago, when I was vice-president of sales of printer products at Canon USA, someone put a milk carton on my desk. I kept pushing it aside, not really looking. Then, I finally...

Michael Connelly just celebrated a milestone. No, it was not his birthday, but the 20th "birthday" of Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, the LAPD homicide detective Connelly introduced in his 1992 novel, The Black Echo.

Marking the occasion, last month the 17th Bosch...

"If anyone had told me I was going to spend one day of my career in Las Vegas, much less six years, I wouldn't have believed it. But these last six years have been amazing."

The speaker is Anthony Crivello. For...

It is the harmonies that are so striking and, even, unique. The four voices of the Oak Ridge Boys -- (in photo from left) bass Richard Sterban, baritone William Lee Golden, tenor Joe Bonsall and lead singer Duane Allen -- blend together...

Talk to Sal Polisi today and, as I did, you may find it difficult to reconcile this man with the person he describes in his autobiography, The Sinatra Club. The guy in the book -- nicknamed "Sally Ubatz" ("crazy Sal") by his...

Here in the U.S. we first met Canadian-born Martin Short in the early 1980s when SCTV migrated from Canadian television to NBC. Since then, Short has introduced us to super-nerd Ed Grimley, Hollywood celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick, songwriter Irving Cohen,...

The sixth Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appétit festival of food and wine in Las Vegas was a huge success, bringing the city's -- and the world's -- top chefs together with food lovers from several countries to taste fabulous food...

Imagine you're watching Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese's (left) towering 1980 film about boxer Jake LaMotta.

LaMotta, played by Robert DeNiro, is in the ring and fighting hard against Sugar Ray Robinson or Marcel Cerdan or, really, against any...

If you were asked to use one word to describe CinemaCon, the annual gathering of the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) in Las Vegas, that word would be "celebrate." And, this year, there's lots to celebrate and lots of people in...

Almost two years ago, I wrote about Tessa and Sascha Hartmann's dream of making the first full-length animated feature ever in Scotland. Finally completed, their movie, Sir Billi, made its international debut at the Sonoma International Film Festival...

"I love entertaining people. I love the live stuff. The stage was what I was made for."

The speaker is Mike Tyson. He's sitting in the corner of an L-shaped couch in a 12th floor suite in the MGM Grand, hosting...

It got attention in worldwide media when a throng of celebrities came to Las Vegas a few weeks ago to join in a celebration of Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday.

The celebrities included notables from film and TV (Sir...

Robert Davi (left) has one of those faces that people always seem to recognize -- one of those faces that cause people to walk up to him and point their index finger as they try to recall how they know him....

If the gang isn't all there in person -- and they are not -- they are well represented by photos and artifacts. So, Al Capone, (whose image is reflected in a certain wall, right) Bugs Moran, Bugsy Siegel, Moe Dalitz, Meyer Lansky,...

Not too many years ago, lots of people thought vinyl records were -- like rotary telephone dials and typewriters -- a thing of the past, replaced by digital recordings, CDs and MP3s, used mostly for obscure and alternative music. Then, in...