MOTHER'S DAY AND DOLLY PARTON! Week of May 15, 2006

Belle Aire and Bingo-boy started off the week in Palm Springs with a "Day After Mother's Day" Mother's Day bingo night. As usual, the crowd was fun and frolicky.

I don't know who's mother this is, but I doubt she's really a top.


Andy from 333 Bed & Breakfast brought his beautiful mother...and she brought all of her bingo good luck charms- including a miniature bottle of Tabasco Sauce (?). All of that luck kept building throughout the night until it burst forth and she won the grand prize game.


This family had quite a night. The father was paddled for his birthday, the mother was paddled for her false bingo and the son just thought "payback is a bitch!" They also won a few games and some raffle prizes!


"DOLLY PARTON" VISITS WEHO LEGENDARY BINGO!
Okay. so it's not really Dolly Parton. Her real name is Sandy Anderson and she is one of the world's only female Dolly Parton impersonators. She came to Wednesday night bingo to call a few games as part of an episode of "Plastic Surgery Before & After" on The Discovery Channel. When she walked in, the crowd just stared with their mouths wide open. In person, you wouldn't be able to tell the real from the "fake."


"Dolly" came outside and did a little "visitin'" with waiter Tye and Door Diva Donna.

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BINGO FLASHBACK!

Here are a few bingo memories from the Legendary Bingo Vault...

Tori Spelling was a lot of fun. We held a bingo night to raise money for her animal rescue and she made sure the place was packed. At one point, we were auctioning off a beautiful diamond necklace that Tori had designed and, to up the bidding, she offered to give a LAP DANCE to the high bidder. The WOMAN who won the necklace was thrilled at the "90210" lap dance and I will have to say, she did quite a professional job of it. Pics of the "Lesbian Lapdance" ran in all of the tabloids. Tori and I live by the same rules- anything for charity!


When "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star Nia Vardalos came to Legendary Bingo, the place went wild. Not only was she a great guest but very generous with her talent for the charity. Someone offered a big donation if Nia would sing and she broke out with "I'm Just A Girl Who Can't Say No" from "Connie & Carla." Nia brought down the house!


Okay, come on now. Ed Asner at bingo? When his publicist called me, I said "Are you sure he'd have fun doing this?" She assured me that Ed was a great guy and up for a good time. Ed showed up and it was as if royalty entered the room. People were speechless. Ed sat down to eat and took his sweet time doing it. Finally I decided to start the evening and said to the crowd that our celebrity guest was "still eating." Ed stops between bites and yells out "Yeah, and I'll bet you're too goddamned cheap to buy me dessert!" I-love-Ed-Asner.

BINGO AT HOLLYWOOD'S GARDEN OF EDEN
On Tuesday night, May 2, Belle and Bingo-boy invaded Hollywood's beautiful Garden Of Eden nightclub to raise money for Planned Parenthood. More than 300 people jammed into this Hollywood Boulevard nightspot and enjoyed food, drink, raffle prizes, silent and live auctions and of course bingo. The event raised more than $15000.00 for Planned Parenthood programs!


Belle Aire relaxes out on the lush patio with Billie Jo Niedlinger, Director Of Special Events for Garden of Eden. Looking good girls!


A look at some of the crowd for the event. There seemed to be "daubin' people" everywhere you looked!


These two good looking volunteers were selling raffle tickets. And selling raffle tickets. And selling raffle tickets. I don't think they ever stopped!


Near the end of the event, Hila (who was my point person for the event) got up and thanked all of the hard-working volunteers. Unfortunately, Belle Aire fell asleep during her speech.
Or possibly her false eyelashes were glued together...

THE SET DECORATORS SOCIETY OF AMERICA (www.setdecorators.org) and UNDER THE BRIDGES AND ON THE STREETS (www.underthebridges.org) were the beneficiaries of a wild night of Wednesday night bingo at Hamburger Mary's.

Cherry Fillin' arrived in nurses drag and raised everyone's pulses!


Peter Gurski is the set decorator for "Four Kings" and "Twins." He and friend Janet cuddled up (platonically) and were great live auction bidders. A note: Peter often paints his toenails in bright colors and patterns. Just thought you might want to know.

Our good friend, actress Lisa Ann Walter ("Shall We Dance?") was our celebrity guest and somehow drank ten "Big Gulps" while on stage (you can see the cup in the picture) . Believe it or not, she only had to pee once! Where the hell does it go? And...does she sleep?


Waiter Tye is usually more friendly than this. But look at those green eyes....

PICS FROM SIERRA MADRE BINGO NIGHT
On Saturday, April 22 Belle Aire and Bingo-boy headed out to Sierra Madre for our bi-annual bingo night to help build their float for The Rose Parade (we raise money, don't actually build the float- but they do, but not on that night...never mind). It was a capacity crowd and everyone had a great time- including all of those whose friends paid to have them paddled by The Fabulous Belle Aire. Anything for charity!
Belle Aire as Rose Princess....with a paddle.

These are two of the "Divas" who sit right in front and have come to every Sierra Madre bingo since the beginning over two years ago! Go Divas!

Jeanne Mills (on right) coordinates this event, works the food tables and drives the float in the parade! I think she actually has a life too...amazing woman.

Kay Sappington (on left- duh) is our "Sierra Madre Door Diva" and greets everyone with a smile- except when they're dumb. Then she smiles even bigger.

Four generations of Lomboys came to bingo! A beautiful family and pretty good bingo players. Especially the baby...

...until he nodded off in the middle of "The Sally O'Malley G- G50! I like to kick and....zzzzzzzz"

WE WERE FEATURED IN AN ARTICLE IN THE PALM SPRINGS DESERT SUN this past week. Here is the link if you would like to read it. If you can't click on it, copy it and paste it in to your browser.

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/COLUMNS48/604200304/1253

APRIL 19 BINGO at Hamburger Mary's was, believe it or not, more fun than usual! Don't know why. The 9 pm show had that...how you say....energy? Joie de vivre? I'm sure that's not how you spell it but you get the point. Our celebrity ballcaller was Valarie Pettiford from UPN's "Half & Half" and let me tell you, she was not half of anything! She was hot! Belle Aire and Valarie were two divas in command! Lots of paddling and a rousing rendition of "Copacabana" from The Gay Men's Chorus and the entire crowd!


Working the front door were Juli Superstar and Maxx and we thank them! It's like having Chip & Dale giving you your bingo cards!












Paula and Loyce are big bingo freaks and pretty constant whiner....I mean winners. We love them alot but they won't share their booth without a fight! Big Days of Our Lives fans by the way...










Belle Aire just paddled this guy's ass. We were playing "Top or Bottom" and he turned out to be a "middle!"

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On Monday, April 17 we made our regular visit to Palm Springs and raised money for one of our favorite charities, the hate-crime documentary "Journey To A Hate-Free Millennium," a program for high schools. Above is Brent Scarpo who created the documentary and his assistant Patti.

Bingo-boy brought Bridgette Of Madison County as guest Bingo Hostess and she rocked the joint! At one point, someone walked by the restaurant and yelled "bingo" and Bridgette ran after them and down the street with the bingo paddle. I think they actually ran and wet their pants at the same time.

These boys sat right in the front and still did not win one game. Better luck next time, I guess.

Andy and Tim- owners of 333 Bed & Breakfast. That is where Ann Walker (Sordid Lives) stayed when she came for a night of bingo.

We'll be back in Palm Springs on Monday, May 1!

Below is a message received by our friends Andy and Tim that run the 333 Bed & Breakfast in Palm Springs. The guy who wrote the letter stayed at the B & B and came to bingo. I guess he tried to play bingo the "Legendary Bingo" way at a real casino and ran into some trouble. I am still laughing.

To Whom It May Concern,

Although I appreciate the effort Belle Aire went to in order to teach me
to play bingo, she is sooo sweet!...I have to tell you that not everyone
here appreciates or understands the "call backs".
I'm sure I did everything right, as I had practiced the call backs
the night before, even practicing wadding up my paper and trying to hit a
target.
I couldn't understand why people were staring at me as I never missed a
call back while many others did. APPARENTLY, the BIG problem arose when
on B-11, I good naturedly attempted to assist some ladies who appeared
reluctant to achieve the legs to heaven positon.
I was ultimately escorted OUT of the Morongo Casino where I was met
by Indian Reservation Security, the County Sheriff's Department, the irate
president of the Michael Jackson Fan Club, and a member of Homeland
Security. (It seems that "Pelt her, Pelt her" could be construed as a
terrorist act.)
So, you can tell that bingo bitch from hell that because of HER...I
am banned from Morongo Casino for life, I'm on the "no-fly" list for
domestic flights within the continental United States, and am currently
undergoing a rather extensive psychiatric evaluation.

Quack quack,

Jan

Palm Springs was suprised when "Sordid Lives" star Ann Walker showed up to call a few games at a recent night of Legendary Bingo at Hamburger Mary's. One of the gang even came in "LaVonda" drag to show how much Palm Springs loves Ann!

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