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As promised, here is Criss Angel's entire speech from the conference today announcing the Cirque du Soleil live production show at the Luxor featuring the 'Mindfreak' star.

Highlights:
- Criss talks about his first 'pilgrimage' to Vegas. Guess where he stayed?
- Criss shares the tale of the long road to success.
- Criss thanks those that have helped him succeed, with a special shout out to the Loyal.
- Criss talks about the conncection of a crowd and how the live show will enhance that.
- Criss also thanks those that have 'shut the door in his face.' How wrong were they? Watch Criss's choice word.

I spent the drive home from watching the Stardust implosion coughing and sticky, covered with a coating of 16-year-old concrete, literally Stardust dust. I met Vegas phenom photographer Scott Doctor on the roof of one of the Circus Circus parking garages for the absolute best views of the implosion.

As far as red carpets go, the AVN Awards red carpet is definitely in the 99th percentile of coolness. It's one of the few celebrity preambles where you go directly from asking Criss Angel about where he hangs out in Vegas and then straight into a detailed scene synopsis from Amber Rayne on how she got nominated for "Most Outrageous Sex Scene."

For the record, Criss likes to hang out in the clubs in Vegas and if you haven't seen Amber's movie, the scene involves a blender -- interview clips below.

In other red carpets, people are more concerned with who's wearing whom and contrived questions about artistic endeavours in correlation with the viability mass media, multi-platform marketplace. This ain't that kind of red carpet. I'm sure there were those discussions occurring, but just not as much.

You also see celebs like Big (pictured) from Rob & Big on MTV who said he was there working. "If the reality show doesn't work out, I may have to make me one of these movies," he said. He then went on to mention how the show was top in ratings all over the world, it's clear he'll probably be too busy for extracurricular film making.

This year, the AVN Awards were open to the public with over 7000 people watching it live at Mandalay Bay. If you weren't one of the lucky thousands, you can catch the show on Playboy TV in March with a full red carpet rundown hosted by Jesse Jane and Daisy Marie.

Below are some red-carpet antics where you can find out where your favorite porn stars like to hang out in Vegas as well as memorable highlights such as Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz being an adorable couple and Dave Navarro confusing a Fletch interview for a Barbara Walters Q&A. Other clips are from Evan Seinfeld & Tera Patrick, both up for Crossover Star of the Year as well as Stormy Daniels, Hillary Scott, T-Real and Kaylani Lei.

Here is a still from Jim Norton, who hosted the awards with Jessica Drake, since that's about all I could use without AOL censors clamping down. The interview ended with Jim saying, "I'm a dirty, dirty boy." Which, by the way, he proved later on with his opening set to start the awards show. He was dirty, but oh so funny.

Stay tuned to Luxe Life first thing Monday morning as Robin Leach brings you the other side of the red carpet. Here's a AVN Luxe Life teaser with photos.

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3 Doors Down performed a mini concert at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas.They actually performed inside the convention at the ESPN Stage.

Here is a clip of "Here Without You"

If you missed the Hot Hot Holiday Revue at Celebrity, below is a video of burlesque performer Vita Vixen bellydancing.

If we prayed at times when we didn't really need something, we would pray that bellydancing and burlesque in general would become holiday traditions -- not only here in Vegas, but all over the world. Then it would truly be the most wonderful time of the year.

We're also considering starting a Vita fanclub called Vita-Men, but our organizational skills may thwart our plans even before we begin.

Check out Vita Vixen and Babes in Sin Las Vegas on MySpace for more videos, pics and info.

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Couldn't make it to the ribbon cutting for Criss Angel's new MINDFREAK Store at Luxor? No worries. Get up-to-speed with the Vegas Pop videos below.

Watch Criss get emotional thanking his family or watch Criss tag his celing. Above all, you can watch him be a really cool guy.

Criss Gets Emotional

Criss Tags His Own Ceiling

J.D. Toasts Criss

Ribbon Cutting

The 18-Hour Autograph

Criss Makes an Entrance

Need More Criss?
- Criss Is Attacked by a 200-pound Dominatrix | Photos
- Check out Robin's interview with Criss
- Touched by an Angel
- Paris Hilton Continues Affair with Criss

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Here are the Eepybird.com guys experimenting at The Comedy Festival in Vegas:

When I set up my camera, all of the other photogs said I was going to get drenched. I reached into my bag of tricks, and. ...

Listen in to Part I of Robin's interview with legendary Beatles producer Sir George Martin and his son, Giles, with interesting Beatles history and the making of the new LOVE album.