Curtain is falling on Crazy nightclub
It's curtains for the award-winning Crazy Horse nightclub in Santa Ana, Calif., the venerable Old West-themed emporium that has played host to Garth Brooks, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.Often voted nightclub of the year by the Academy of Country Music, the country music institution shuts down Monday in Santa Ana then reopens next month at the Irvine Spectrum.
The 20-year-old Crazy Horse Steak House is where Owens made his comeback after cancer surgery and where Haggard renounced his retirement. The 70-year-old Owens is to perform Monday's farewell concert.
"I know it's moving and it's still going to be there, but it's still sad for me," Owens said. "I've probably played there 25 or 30 times, and I cannot remember a crowd there that was not absolutely just wild with enthusiasm."
Co-owner Jay Nuccio decided to make the move to expand the club's concert hall and restaurant.
Dion to bare soul in new autobiography
French-Canadian pop diva Celine Dion, best known for her rendition of the theme song of the blockbuster movie "Titanic," is working on a "very intimate" autobiography to be published next year in English and five other languages, her office in Montreal said Friday.
Last September, the Grammy-winning Dion said she planned to take up to a three-year break from the music business after she sings in a big year-end concert in Montreal.
Dion is to confide to Quebec biographer Georges-Hebert Germain the details of her life in what is expected to be a 250-page book.
"She has practically never known life without stress and pressure. Now to fill her new life, she is full of dreams and projects," her office said.
"She affirms having been a slave of her voice, submitted to an infernal discipline," Hebert-Germain told Le Journal de Montreal newspaper Friday.
Brandy hospitalized for dehydration
Grammy-winning singer and television sitcom star Brandy Norwood has been hospitalized for dehydration, her publicist says.
The 20-year-old singer and star of UPN's "Moesha" entered an unidentified Southern California hospital for treatment Thursday and was expected to be released over the weekend, said Marcy DeVeaux, a spokeswoman for Big Ticket Television, which produces "Moesha."
DeVeaux said she didn't know what caused Norwood's condition.
A release from the production company said the show would take a hiatus during Norwood's recovery.