{"id":6,"date":"2008-04-16T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2012-06-13T14:27:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T21:27:48","slug":"bette-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Bette in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently did a logo for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettemidler.com\/\">Bette Midler<\/a>\u2019s Las Vegas show at Caesar\u2019s. The art director is actually and old pal of mine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roddyerinternational.com\/\">Rod Dyer<\/a>, a really colorful character who incidentally has a dual career operating one of LA\u2019s best and longest running restaurants: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panevinola.com\/\">Pane e Vino<\/a>. Laura (my wife, illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurasmithart.com\/\">Laura Smith<\/a>) and I have loved going there for years\u2014it\u2019s undoubtedly one of our favorite LA restaurants. It has a fantastic outdoor garden seating area where you can always see some of Hollywood\u2019s glitterati. One day while having lunch with Rod, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billy_Dee_Williams\">Billy Dee Williams<\/a> joined our table, Rod left, resulting in our having lunch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/character\/landocalrissian\/\">Lando Calrissian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Bette_Horiz_4pointStars-Bkgrnd1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2063\" title=\"Bette_Horiz_4pointStars-Bkgrnd\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Bette_Horiz_4pointStars-Bkgrnd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bette&#8217;s new show is at The Colosseum, where she takes over the slot occupied for years by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celinedion.com\/\">Celine Dion<\/a>. Bette alternates showdates monthly with <a href=\"http:\/\/eltonjohn.com\">Elton John<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cher.com\">Cher<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently did a logo for Bette Midler\u2019s Las Vegas show at Caesar\u2019s. The art director is actually and old pal of mine, Rod Dyer, a really colorful character who incidentally has a dual career operating one of LA\u2019s best and longest running restaurants: Pane e Vino. Laura (my wife, illustrator Laura Smith) and I have loved going there for years\u2014it\u2019s undoubtedly one of our favorite LA restaurants. It has a fantastic outdoor garden seating area where you can always see some of Hollywood\u2019s glitterati. One day while having lunch with Rod, Billy Dee Williams joined our table, Rod left, resulting in our having lunch with Lando Calrissian. Bette&#8217;s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}