Griffin challenges Minaj to ‘boo-tay-off’
While most people are inviting friends to complete the ice bucket challenge, Kathy Griffin has another proposal for Nicki Minaj: a booty challenge.
The 53-year-old comedian said after watching the eye-popping, rump-shaking music video for Minaj’s new hit single, “Anaconda,” she wants to go toe-to-toe with the rap diva.
“Of course, everyone’s talking about that ‘Anaconda’ video and it’s fantastic. It’s a lot of boo-tay and I would like to challenge Nicki to a boo-tay-off,” Griffin said in an interview this week.
The “Anaconda” video has racked in 35 million views since its Tuesday release and has trended on Twitter throughout the week.
“It’s like the ice bucket challenge, but it doesn’t even have any charity associated with it at all,” Griffin continued. “It’s completely gratuitous.”
Griffin released a comedy album last week.
Cirque cast performs in Vegas airport
Visitors flying into Las Vegas got more than just their luggage when they stopped by baggage claim.
Cast members from Cirque du Soleil danced on the carousels, did handstands on the moving sidewalks and rode a vintage Volkswagen Beetle into the terminal Thursday afternoon at McCarran International Airport.
The unannounced, three-song shows marked the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ flight from San Francisco to Las Vegas. The band’s two-show gig in 1964 was the only time the Fab Four performed in Sin City.
Cirque du Soleil has a Beatles-themed resident show at The Mirage casino called “LOVE.”
Parole denied again for Lennon’s killer
John Lennon’s killer was denied release from prison in his eighth appearance before a parole board, correction officials said Friday.
The decision on Mark David Chapman by a three-member board came after a hearing Wednesday, the state Department of Corrections said.
Chapman fired five shots on Dec. 8, 1980, outside the Dakota apartment house where Lennon lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, hitting the ex-Beatle four times in front of his wife, Yoko Ono, and others. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
The transcript of his latest hearing wasn’t immediately released. Chapman can try again for parole in two years.
Birthday bunch
Actress Vera Miles is 84. Actress Barbara Eden is 83. Ballet dancer Patricia McBride is 72. Actress Shelley Long is 65. Actor-singer Rick Springfield is 65. musician Dean DeLeo (Army of Anyone; Stone Temple Pilots) is 53. Actor Jay Mohr is 44. Actor Scott Caan is 38. Actress Kimberly Matula is 26.