Donald Trump
“I would buy this book in a New York minute.”
– Donald J. Trump
“All I know is, if it wasn’t in Norm’s column, it probably didn’t happen.”
– Rick Reilly
Columnist, Sports Illustrated
“Recommended: Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke’s new book, “Vegas Confidential,” which is jam- packed with gossipy stories of (mostly) bad star behavior while cavorting in Sin City. Norm’s been on the Vegas entertainment beat since 1999. That he’s managed to keep a sense of humor about some of the insufferable stars he’s covered (including Jerry Lewis and Robin Williams) is remarkable.”
– Michael Starr
New York Post
“The one, the only, the guy who . . . knows exactly what to do in Vegas when you don’t want to gamble.”
– Wild Blue Yonder
Frontier Airlines
“Clarke’s the guy with stories to spare, and he has packed this book with fascinating ones. If you happen to be somewhere when somebody with a name worthy of boldfaced type does something embarrassing, offensive or notable, you can join the army of spies that report it to Clarke.”
– Megan Edwards
Living Las Vegas
Criss Angel with Jack Osbourne
“Don’t ever write another word about me, or you’ll need an eye patch over your other eye.”
– Criss Angel
“Norm knows Vegas. Even though he only has one eye, he sees everything.”
– Rita Rudner
Comedian
“They say nowadays what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. This book shouldn’t stay in Vegas, but be everywhere. Even in Kutztown, Pa.”
– David Brenner
Comedian
“Norm is hands down the greatest gossip columnist in the country! He deserves nothing less than the highest accolades for documenting the debauchery as Rome burns around him.”
– Branden Powers
Living Las Vegas
“Keep writing that (bleep) and I’ll punch out your (bleeping) headlights.”
– Pete Rose
“Hitting the jackpot with our travel business was cool. And buying the Golden Nugget was very cool. And having our own reality television series, The Casino, was ultra cool. But getting bold-faced in Norm’s column… now that’s HOT!”
– Tim Poster and Tom Breitling
Golden Nugget
“Norm Clarke, the gossip columnist/man-about-town for the Las Vegas Review Journal who broke the Britney Spears 55-hour marriage story, among others. But he figured all that collected gossip and wisdom deserves a bigger audience and a longer shelf life. And he’s right.”
– Dallas News
“Clarke manages to relate all the tabloid-selling details while at the same time providing thoughtful commentary on the history of Las Vegas from 1999 to the present. An era of economic growth around the globe, this was the decade Las Vegas shed the last vestiges of its mobbed-up past and forged a shiny new Hollywood-inspired identity. What happens next in the evolution of Las Vegas is anybody’s guess, but because of Norm Clarke, we now have a star-studded insider’s view of what happened here in the first years of the new millennium. It will take time to find out whether the decade covered in this book gets labeled golden, but no one’s ever going to be able to claim it wasn’t juicy.”
– Megan Edwards
Living Las Vegas
The Hef
“When I misbehave in Las Vegas I know Norm will report it, but he’s always fair. Or maybe he’s just jealous.”
– Hugh Hefner
Founder, Playboy
Media Mentions
Celebrating ‘Sinsational’ by Doug Elfman/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Playboy Club Book Launch Party Slide Show/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Steve Friess Interviews Norm/The Strip Podcast
Richard Abowitz/The Movable Buffet/Los Angeles Times
