David Cassidy on the Web
Cassidy has plans! Big plans!
May 11, 2011
The Kats Report
www.lasvegassun.com
In the interview that preceded Timmons, David Cassidy disclosed that while he was in Las Vegas over the weekend to headline two shows at Orleans Showroom, he held meetings for a new production he wants to bring to Vegas. Cassidy spent five years in Las Vegas, from 1996-2001, starring in "EFX" at the MGM Grand, "At the Copa" at the Rio and co-producing "The Rat Pack Is Back" when it debuted at the Desert Inn.
"I've recently, in the last 3 months, started developing a very, very unique show that is edgy and strong in the 18 to 25 demographic," Cassidy said. "I would star in it, or be a part of it, for a while, but it is unique, fun, scary and bizarre."
Sounds like a night out with Holly Madison's entourage. We joke, of course.
Cassidy also spoke of his brief fling with "Celebrity Apprentice" on NBC, when he was the first to be dispatched by possible Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Cassidy related a conversation between Trump and him that was edited out of the version that aired on NBC. Cassidy, Jose Canseco and Richard Hatch were summoned by Trump, and Canseco glowered at Hatch because of Hatch's disrespectful treatment of Cassidy during a pizza-making competition that kicked off the show.
"We were in the board room, and Trump was saying to Hatch, 'Everyone on your team said I should fire you, Richard, but I just can't wait to watch Jose Canseco strangle you,' " Cassidy said, chuckling. "I responded with, 'I've produced a lot of shows in my life, in movies and in television. If I were producing this show -- and this is the first and only reality television show I've ever done -- I definitely would fire me and watch that happen, because that's what those shows live off of. I tell you, there was steam coming out of Jose's ears during that show."
I asked Cassidy if he would ever consent to participating in such a show ever again. "No, oh, no," he said. "Never. I'm used to working in concert with people, not this."
