Norm Clarke’s party and bonding with Rita Rudner
I am writing the Buffet column for the Nov. 23 print edition about Las Vegas Review-Journal
columnist Norm Clarke.В Clarke began covering the celebrity scene here shortly
before I moved to Vegas in 1999. And, so, I have never known this town
without Clarke’s Vegas Confidential column. But in the introduction to
Clarke’s latest book, “Norm Clarke’s Vegas Confidential: Sinsational
Celebrity Tales,”В former “Soprano’s” actor Steve Schrirripa, a longtime Vegas
hand, notes that when Clarke started in Vegas: “The idea of a gossip columnist
covering our town was not warmly embraced.” You can imagine why.