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Pharrell gets gets the cool treatment.

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Almost everything blogged and over-blogged about the VMAs has been obvious and mass market. I mean really, how many bloggers does it take to screw in a lightbulb, or someone's career? There's the stuff that happens on the stage during the broadcast and at the clubs where people wave their camera phones at celebrities like lighters at an '80s arena rock concert.

What you don't always see is the behind-the-scenes action at the hospitality suites where stars are pampered and gifted and able to hang out without worrying if their muffin tops have been properly oiled and set properly with the flab to denim ratio.

At the TAO Vegas hospitality suites at the Venetian, stars like Ashanti (pictured above) were able to load up on celeb perks like swag and goodies from Express, Disney Couture, Kenneth Cole Fragrance, Luxotica Eyewear, Treesje handbags, Oceanaut watches, Keratase, WOW Creations and Luxury Air Jets.

If celebs got tired of the free shopping and the pampering they could head over to the Xbox Oasis at TAO Beach like Kanye (pictured). There's a great picture you have to click below of Eve, Bobby Lee and Lil Jon playing Xbox which leads me to think, those three could start the next big movie franchise -- Bobby Lee and Lil Jon buddy cop movies set in Vegas with Eve as the sexy, demanding boss. I digress.

Not all the stars want the treatment, though. Most celebs were hanging out and having a good time like Pharrell (pictured), but singer Robin Thicke refused swag gifts by saying, "Please give it to someone that needs it." Some people are so heavy.

Other celebs stopping by the tent include, but not limited to, Nelly, Yung Joc, Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri, Ludacris, Diddy, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry, Kevin Connelly, Jacob the Jeweler, Ciara and the cast of 'The Hills.' Linkin Park also performed over the weekend for the release of 'Halo 3.'

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All Photos by Jacob Andrzejczak of imagesofvegas.com

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Stars and speed were the order of the day as NASCAR sped through Vegas in the UAW-Damiler Chrysler 400 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Mark Wahlberg was there to promote his new film, 'Shooter.' Click on a thumbnail below to see that photo. To read the full LUXE LIFE story, click here.

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The sexy sensuous saucy X Girls will premiere their new show at the Flamingo this Friday but LUXE LIFE readers gets the first provocative peek now!

Our photographer Scott Doctor was invited to put them into focus with "an arty shoot that covered up the naked bits as best possible." Trust me when you go see the show after Friday's first night, this is really in-your-face, titillating entertainment! Resort-hotel execs are celebrating the naughty near-naked shenanigans by even opening up an X-themed bar with specialty cocktails for their run in the new-look lounge feel of the comedy theater! Enjoy the photos and then rush to the box office! (Click each thumbnail for the full-size sexiness.)

Despite bad weather and delayed flights across the country, all 52 Miss America 2007 contestants finally made it into Vegas tonight and Luxe Life has exclusive First Look photos. Each beauty was given an official welcome by our merry Mayor of Mirth, Oscar Goodman and Mike Mecca, the President of the Aladdin/Planet Hollywood resort and presented with a single-stem red rose.

Everybody from pageant organizers to admiring fans and even former Miss New Jersey beauty queen winner Lynn Weidner, chairman of the Vegas Committee, all agreed, "This is the youngest, prettiest group of girls Miss America has featured in many years. They are gorgeous girls with movie-star appeal. If this is how they get off the plane after long exhausting flights, imagine how glamorous they will look on the big night!"

t's the second consecutive year that the Miss America pageant is being held in Las Vegas after an 86 year-run in Atlantic City. Once the gorgeous girls were presented to Vegas VIPs, they tried to combat all-day flights without meals by combining a buffet-snack with press interviews including their first with me and another with the Carlos Diaz and the EXTRA TV crew.

For the next 10 days, they face a gruelling schedule: tomorrow they are at the Fashion Show Mall and then in between rehearsals, wardrobe fittings and intense grilling by the judges they will do a fun photo shoot Monday evening in the gondolas at The Venetian. Wednesday, their preliminaries get underway for the live broadcast finale hosted by 'Dancing with the Stars' hero Mario Lopez on Monday, Jan. 29.

Luxe Life will travel with them each day of their Vegas stay for all their activities- plus the behind the scenes secrets and preparations so log on everyday all next week.

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There's nothing like a gorgeous underwear model dressed in next-to-nothing, so it was a beautiful night when Studio 54 kicked off its party celebrations with the girls from Howie Mandel's 'Deal or No Deal.'

The models dropped their silver attaché-cases and shed their gowns and inhibitions to parade in provocative poses in the scantiest of sexy slips! How could we resist these Scott Doctor photos of the models on the runway?

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You gotta love the attention to detail in this banner, which celebrties walked in front of at The Comedy Festival's Charity Poker Tournament at PURE in Caesars Palace. I just want to know how the printers got Holpital. I could understand Hodpital, Hoapital, or even Hofpital, but L is no where near S on a computer keyboard. That's jult lome lilly lhit.

Photos of the maestros of mint and soda, EepyBird.com at The Comedy Festival in Vegas. Check out some video action too.

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More opening night photos from The Comedy Festival.

Even the statues at Caesars Palace are ready for The Comedy Festival, which kicked off tonight with a party at Festival Village. We laughed, we cried (when Triumph the Insult Comic Dog played dead), and we took photos. Enjoy...

The large David statue got all gussied up for the fest.

Kickoff hosts Mikalah Gordon and Woody Wittman


Jocks from 107. 5 and an empty chair


The tent the Comedy Village

Need to check your e-mail at the Festival, stop by the AOL booth.


Angels on top add some poetry to these elaborate concert posters




More fun at the AOL booth


None of these ladies are named, Lola, and yet they are showgirls.


Woody with Prince's 3121 DJ Rashida


The K-9 dog is ready for some puppet munchies


We think this is supposed to be Charro and JJ Bullock.

We say farewell to the Stardust by looking back through the years. Click here to find out how you can purchase a piece of Stardust history.






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Instead of writing an op/ed piece about monuments and progress, I decided to offer tribute with these haikus inspired by photos I snapped during the Stardust's last weekend of business.

The first one wrote itself, well at least 41% of itself:

in these latter days
new stardust book on sale
lost irony found

shadows trace the past
physics of our histories
temporary scribes

Who doesn't love the Pussycat Dolls? I mean, really, what's not to love? OK, so there is their foray into music which is of debatable merit, but there's no debate about how sexy they are when workin' it on stage. They are so sizzling that celebrities like Pamela Anderson, Eva Longoria and Denise Richards have taken the stage as guest Dolls. When you're done enjoying the site of Pamela Anderson as a Doll, click here for even more Pussycat Dolls photos.

Check out these photos from Prince's 3121 show at the Rio in Vegas. Click here to return to the story.

I spent my first week in Vegas as a resident searching for bartenders with "good personalities" for America's Hottest Bartenders. Tough job, I know.

Some of the most beautiful people in the world (like the gorgeous Nicole from Seamless Afterhours pictured above) call Vegas home so I was sure, willing to wager even, that the national winner would be coming from Vegas. With each photo shoot that week, the girls and boys got sexier and my, uh, confidence kept growing.

There ain't no party like a Vegas party and these highly-attractive professionals do their part to make sure the 800,000 weekly Vegas visitors have something to write home about, or if more appropriate, not write home about.

America Voted
The week was a blur of photo shoots, release forms and valet parking. Once finished, I shipped the pics off to AOL headquarters where the folks at corporate chose the photos and published the feature. It was then that, to use a popular catch-phrase, "America voted."



Lynette (pictured here) from Tabu won the Vegas title for the ladies, but sadly there is no justice in the world and she lost to someone in Chicago. Could it be another conspiracy of Chicago politics? I'm not suggesting it's on the same level as Daley bulldozing Meigs, but how else to explain Lynette losing? I'll have to re-read "American Pharoah" for clues.

With the gentlemen tenders, Tom from VooDoo was the sexiest bartender in Vegas with those piercing, dreamy, edible eyes, but again, lost out ...