DOUG ELFMAN: Stern considers returning to LV




Attention hotel execs: Howard Stern is on the market to come back to Las Vegas -- to record a week's worth of national radio shows on the grounds of your fancy digs.

In the past, Howard always went to the Hard Rock Hotel. But the hotel changed ownership. Now Howard is a "free agent," Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate told me.

"We have no plans to come out," Baba Booey said when I asked. "We just have to find the right reason to come out, the right place to go, the right sort of event to do around it."

In other words, he said, the show likes to do Vegas when there are a lot of celebrities and/or tourists in town (so stars are readily available to go on the show).

Baba Booey and Palms owner George Maloof talked five or six years ago, about moving Howard from the Hard Rock to the Palms.

"It just didn't work out logistically," Baba Booey said. But, "the Hard Rock is a whole new group of owners now. So if we came out, we're in play."

Maloof is game.

"Yeah, we'd definitely look at it," Maloof told me Monday night. "My opinion is he's got some die-hard fans that would love to see him come back to Vegas to do a show."

As one of those hard-core Howard fans, with a lifetime subscription to Sirius, I'm saying Vegas could use a week of Howard. So make it happen, Baba Booey Baba Booey. Please bring Gilbert Gottfried.


-Las Vegas Review Journal