Is this one of the funniest Las Vegas bachelor party movies ever made? Is this a morning after experience you’ll never regret, or is it just another post-party night headache? 411.com’s movie reviewer Jeremy Thomas gives us the lowdown.

Films about weddings traditionally shoot for the female demographic. It is tradition—in Hollywood, anyway—that a wedding is the moment every woman looks forward to and every man deeply fears, and thus it is no surprise that that the vast majority of films marketed around the matrimonial ceremony are built for the fairer sex. Just in the past year or we’ve had films such as Made of Honor, Mamma Mia!, Bride Wars, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past that have taken the institution of marriage and spun it into female-driven laughs (in theory, at least), and only I Love You Man that’s taken more of a guy-oriented look on the tradition of getting married.

Occasionally however there is that film that comes along that bucks the unfortunately-named “chick flick” trend, making a wedding-related film that tries to appeal to guys as equally as it does women. Enter The Hangover, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham and Justin Bartha.

The Hangover opens with Phil (Cooper) calling up the about-to-be-married Tracy (Barrese). Phil looks beat up, dirty and run ragged; in the background his friend Stu (Helms) and Tracy’s brother Alan (Galifianakis) sit on a badly-beat up classic Mercedes. Tracy is freaking out because Phil, Stu and Alan haven’t yet returned from a trip with her husband-to-be Doug (Bartha), and the wedding is supposed to happen in five hours. Phil gives a resigned look and says “Yeah….that’s not gonna happen.” From there we move back two days to learn that the four men are in Los Angeles, about to head to Las Vegas for a night out as Doug’s bachelor party.

Stu is a dentist who is henpecked by his shrewish, evil girlfriend of three years Melissa (Harris), while Phil is a prick-ish school teacher who cheats his kids out of money via a bogus fee for a field trip so he can add it to the Vegas weekend fund. Alan, for his part, just isn’t quite right. He’s bright, but has no real social skills to speak of. The four take Doug’s soon to be father-in-law up on his offer to take his Mercedes on the trip. Once they get to the hotel, they toast to the night…one which they wake up from with no memory and no Doug. The groom is missing, their hotel suite is beyond trashed, and there’s a tiger and a baby in the room.

It then becomes a backward mystery as Phil, Stu and Alan try to piece together the wildest night that Las Vegas may have ever seen, encountering among other things a stripper (Graham), a very pissed-off Asian man with no clothes and a tire iron (Jeong), a pair of cops who lost their patrol car (Riggle & King) and Mike Tyson himself as they race to find their friend and get him back to the wedding on time.

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The Grammy award-winning Singer Celine Dion is returning to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas next year for a three-year residency.

She will appear at the hotel’s Colosseum theater where she performed her A New Day Concert 717 times between March 2003 and December 2007.

Her previous residency took more than $400m and was seen by nearly three million people. The new show will begin on 15 March 2011 with tickets priced from $55 to $250.

Organizers say the new show, which will feature a full orchestra, will be “centered on capturing the romance of classic Hollywood movies and performed with a stunning visual presentation”.

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Earlier this month, the top trending searched topics on Bing for 2009 were announced (we wish the circumstances for Michael Jackson topping that list were a bit more positive). The top searched celebrity of 09 was also revealed (Oh…. Perez Hilton you were hot, hot, hot). Bing then asked you to go and take their End of Year Facebook quiz to test your I.Q. of hot topics in 2009. How did everyone do in the quiz?

Who would’ve thought that Las Vegas would beat out Hawaii for most searched travel destinations, or that Susan Boyle was searched for more often than Taylor Swift? A majority swore the iPhone was the most searched electronic device …well as a matter of fact, it was the iPod. And over half were pulling for New Moon as the most searched movie, which was actually runner up to the original movie, Twilight. Above is the complete list of the top 2009 searches on Bing. Las Vegas or Bust!

Source: bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/12/22/and-the-rest-of-the-2009-most-searched-goes-to.aspx

Tiger Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren was purposely photographed without her wedding ring in an effort to send a message that her marriage is done, according to a report.

“She knew what she was doing when she stepped out and pumped gas without her wedding rings,” one source told MSNBC.com.

“There are plenty of people who would have filled the tank for her so she wouldn’t even have to be photographed.”

Moving crews descended on the Woods’ estate Tuesday, and a source close to the golfer’s camp told The New York Post, “She’s making plans to move out and take the kids with her.”

It was also revealed Wednesday that Woods would squander up to $25,000 a hand while playing blackjack in Las Vegas, according to one of his alleged mistresses.

Jamie Jungers told Radaronline.com that she gambled for hours with Woods at The Mansion at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. She said Woods’ friend NBA great Charles Barkley was also there, and Tiger would act discreet in front of him.

“He would occasionally put his hand on my leg but it was underneath the table,” she told Radar.

“There was nobody around except the blackjack dealer, the roulette dealer and a cocktail waitress who would come in the room. There was nobody in that room except for myself, Tiger and Charles Barkley.”

Tiger became a different person when he was at The Mansion, Jungers said. “He was drinking, smoking cigars, he was partying,” she said.

But there was finally some good news for Woods on Wednesday with the Associated Press naming him its Athlete of the Decade.

Woods was the clear winner in the vote cast by AP member editors. He received 56 votes, well ahead of cyclist Lance Armstrong (33 votes) and tennis ace Roger Federer (25 votes).

The AP said more than half of the ballots were returned after Nov. 27, the day when Woods crashed his car into a fire hydrant and sparked a series of scandalous stories.

On Friday the golf superstar said he was quitting the sport indefinitely and acknowledged his “infidelity.”

Source: news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/tiger-woods-wife-elin-nordegren-posed-without-wedding-ring-to-signal-marriage-was-over/story-e6frfmqi-1225811218819