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  • Olivia Newton-John Is Headed To Vegas

    Olivia Newton-John Is Headed To Vegas

    Olivia Newton-John created a lasting name for herself when she played Sandy on Grease over 20 years ago. Fans all over the world fell in love with the innocent blonde bombshell, and her fame from the movie continued to grow, even to this day.

    Now, Grease fans will be happy to know that Newton-John is making her way to Las Vegas, where she will be headlining a new show. The show titled Summer Nights, will begin on April 8, 2014, and will continue throughout the Summer, with 45 shows at the Donny and Marie Showroom at The Flamingo. Grease classic’s including, Hopelessly Devoted to You and You’re the One that I Want, will be two of Newton-John’s featured songs.

    Newton-John is extremely excited to make Las Vegas her home this Summer, and revealed that a portion of each ticket, sold to her show, will go to benefit the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre. “I am thrilled to be able to call Las Vegas home for a while,” Newton-John said. “I have performed here many times through the years and have had nothing but wonderful memories and I look forward to even more fun at the Flamingo. I am especially thrilled that a portion of every ticket sold will benefit the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre.”

    If you would like to purchase tickets to Summer Nights, they will be going on sale, on Friday, February 7, at 10 a.m., and will start at $69. If you are a member of the Caesars Entertainment’s Total Rewards program, you will be eligible for the pre-sale from Wednesday, February 5 at 10 a.m. to Thursday, February 6 at 10 p.m.

    Tickets are available for purchase at any Las Vegas Caesars Entertainment Box Office, by phone at (702) 777-2782 or (855) 234-7469 or by visiting flamingolasvegas.com.

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  • Discovery Network Utilizing Social Media For New Show

    I have never been a big fan of horror movies. Getting scared on purpose was never something that I quite understood. One of the scariest movies I ever saw, though, was a film back in 1995 called Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman which showed the response that the world would likely have to a global pandemic if one were ever to occur. At the time I was in college at Emory in Atlanta right next door to the CDC and the film’s storyline about the Ebola virus escaping felt very close to home. Tonight at 10pm the Discovery Channel is debuting a new show that will explore this idea of a global pandemic in an interesting new way. The show, called The Colony will take 7 volunteers and drop them into a condemned town without food or water. They are told there has been a biological disaster and are challenged to survive.

    The show’s premise itself is interesting, but what adds to the intrigue of the entire program is that they are pursuing a very smart strategy to let anyone take part in this social experiment by signing up for an online simulation of a global pandemic, that uses your own Facebook friends as characters in the "unfolding drama of the survival of humanity." This technique of using your real friends as the backdrop for a fictional experience created online is something that has been growing in use through efforts such as the popular "Elf Yourself" holiday greeting card campaigns last holiday season.

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      As this virtual experience around The Colony unfolds, it will be interesting to watch how it adds a real dimension to viewers of the show and (hopefully) synchronizes the experience so what is happening in your virtual version of The Colony mirrors what is happening in the show. The virtual experience so far has a combination of fake updates from your friend networks intermixed custom videos that seem to have been created to support the show from people like Cali Lewis. If this part of the social experiment works to engage viewers, we will likely see more networks and programs in the fall using this fictional virtual experience as a way to engage their most passionate fans. Assuming we all survive, of course.

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