Vegas Swinger: 'I don't watch TV to get my inspiration.' - Andrea Teo (right), assistant vice-president of Production 5, on talent-spotting techniques for her award-winning comedy attempts, including Phua Chu Kang 'When I was younger, I often said that I was attracted to Johnny Depp, but now I'm not attracted to him anymore. Vanessa Paradis is certainly beautiful, but lately he hasn't been picking the women who are
'I don't watch TV to get my inspiration.' - Andrea Teo (right), assistant vice-president of Production 5, on talent-spotting techniques for her award-winning comedy attempts, including Phua Chu Kang 'When I was younger, I often said that I was attracted to Johnny Depp, but now I'm not attracted to him anymore. Vanessa Paradis is certainly beautiful, but lately he hasn't been picking the women who are...

Vegas Swinger: POP ON THE ROCKS
A few years back, there was a corner bar in Chicago where I used to go to punch up the jukebox. It was the old-time kind, still filled with vinyl 45s. There was a different world inside it --Louis Prima and Ruby Keeler doing "That Old Black Magic," Trini Lopez's multi-culti version of "If I Had a Hammer," Al Martino singing "Love is Blue." And there was Bobby Darin, represented by the two signature cuts most...

Vegas Swinger: MOVIE REVIEW Fantasy or reality? Take your pick The apocolypse nears in real-world `Syriana'
"Syriana." Rated R. At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Commom, Harvard Square and suburban theaters. Grade: A- Is George Clooney our most important American filmmaker? With "Syriana," a film he co-produced and in which he plays a lead role, and "Good Night, and Good Luck," a film he directed, co-wrote and in which he acts, it looks that way. I'm not sure why Clooney needed to add those...

Vegas Swinger: Tony Bennett is the life of his party
Tony Bennett came to celebrate his 75th birthday in Houston Tuesday. He even brought his own celebrity party guest: strong-voiced k.d. lang. The pairing of Bennett and lang at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands seemed a little awkward. Bennett, the current curator of the American Songbook, comes from a history of jazz and old-fashioned pop balladry. A strong-voiced Canadian alt-country singer, lang was reared on Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Only in recent years has...

Vegas Swinger: Test your trivia powers
As the third installment of the "Austin Powers" films opens in theaters today, it occurs to us that not everyone is "Powers" literate. Yeah, baby!

Vegas Swinger: BREWERS 6, RANGERS 2
While pitching his way up the organizational ladder with San Diego, right-hander Bryce Florie spent an extended stint with Class AAA Las Vegas and ...

Vegas Swinger: Can fave buck the odds?
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--And on a Saturday in May, the lords of bourbon, tobacco and bluegrass said let there be a Derby. And so they came, beginning with ...