People: Vegas will get its fair Cher
After selling more than 100 million records and starring in movies, television and Broadway, Cher is taking her act to Vegas.
The Oscar, Emmy and Grammy award winner will begin a three-year, 200-show engagement May 6 at Caesars Palace.
Cher will alternate performances at the 4,300-seat Colosseum with other headline acts Elton John and Bette Midler.
In December, Celine Dion ended a five-year run at the theater, which opened in 2002 as home of her show, “A New Day …”.
“I started in Vegas at Caesars, so I’ve come full circle,” Cher said.
“I’m back, and I plan to give my fans the best experience yet. I think everybody knows I only do things in a big way.”
“Cher at The Colosseum” will include hit songs from her career of more than 40 years, with choreography, costumes and special effects. Tickets will range from $95 to $250.
John, who began playing at the Colosseum in 2004 when Dion’s show was dark, is booked to play his show, “The Red Piano,” through 2008.
Midler’s “The Showgirl Must Go On” is set to open Feb. 20 for a two-year run.
Amy’s still housebound
Amy Winehouse has been granted a visa to come to the United States after all, but the troubled singer still won’t be traveling to Sunday’s Grammy Awards.
Winehouse, who’s in a London rehab center while police investigate allegations of crack cocaine use, was initially denied a visa by the US. Embassy on Thursday.
She won’t be able to attend the Grammys because of “the logistics involved and timing complications,” her rep says, but she’s still scheduled to perform via satellite.
Let her treat aches
Kirsten Dunst, the “Marie Antoinette”and “Spider-Man” star, has checked into the super-exclusive Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah, favored by the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Richie Sambora and Eva Mendes.
Dunst, 25, raised eyebrows with her erratic behavior at last month’s Sundance film festival.
Surrendering her stash
TMZ.com reports that Delta Burke is being treated for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and “hoarding” at an undisclosed psychiatric hospital.
The “Designing Women” star tells TMZ that her pack-rat behavior has ruined her life.
Her career’s gone to pot
Charlize Theron danced to disco music, struck modeling poses and wooed someone wearing an elephant suit and a pink sparkly bra on Thursday as she picked up her Woman of the Year award from Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals club.
Theron’s efforts landed her a gold-colored pudding pot, to which she replied: “I’m going to make a stew, then I’m going to eat it.”
The birthday bunch
News correspondent Roger Mudd is 80. Singer Carole King is 66. Actor Joe Pesci is 65. Author Alice Walker is 64. Actress Mia Farrow is 63. Singer Joe Ely is 61. Actress Judith Light (“Who’s The Boss”) is 59. Country singer Travis Tritt is 45. Actress Julie Warner (“Family Law”) is 43. Actor David Gallagher (“Seventh Heaven”) is 23. Actress Camille Winbush (“The Bernie Mac Show”) is 18.