Every week Jenna Jameson is the sponsor of "Silicone Sundays" at Forty Deuce at Mandalay Bay. Jenna Jameson is more than a star in Las Vegas: she is a native. And, since nowhere else do adult entertainment and the mainstream mingle quite the way they do in Las Vegas, Jenna Jameson has been savvy cashing in on that too.

When Jenna Jameson started dating Tito Ortiz they quickly became the hottest couple in Las Vegas. The ultimate fighter and the adult film star are welcome and regular guests at resort nightclubs and our local press has reported breathlessly on their frolicking together. Just when Vegas lost Carmen and Dave it seemed Jenna and Tito arrived to be Las Vegas' very public party couple.

Apparently, though, the bloom of love between the two is not appreciated everywhere. For example, at Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, Calif. According to Marine Corps Times, Ortiz was to host a sold-out ball there when the Marines discovered to their horror that he intended to bring his girlfriend to the dance. Operation Stop Jenna came quickly. Major Jason Johnston, a spokesman at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar told Marine Corps Times:

"We invited him, and he accepted. Then, it became aware to us that his guest was going to be his girlfriend. Then, we had to make a decision, and the decision made was that she was not an individual or guest that we really felt was appropriate for the Marine Corps ball."

But chivalry isn't dead. Ortiz has refused to go without his porn star love. Oh well, they will always have Vegas.

(Photo: Michael Bruckner / Getty Images)

Back in February, I met and interviewed Duane "Dog" Chapman when he was in Las Vegas to attend the Professional Bail Agents of the United States convention at the Luxor. Maybe, that "United States" part of this organization's name should have meant more to him. Chapman proudly told the audience and me in an interview beforehand about his 2003 successful capture in Mexico of Andrew Luster, a fugitive cosmetics heir convicted of rape in this country.

Chapman described this hunt as the challenge that brought out the best and the brightest bounty hunters and proved his preeminence in this field. Chapman had this to say to me about arresting Luster in Febuary: "When he took off, every bounty hunter in the country was looking for him, and the title then was on the line. When the title was on the line, it was very important that I capture him. We captured him." Of course, that capture was in Mexico and not the United States.

Dog admitted to me that more than a few of his competitors have been jealous of him since capturing Luster made him famous. But his colleagues didn't just feel jealous. Dog's reckless image and biker outfits seemed out of step with the rest of the bounty hunters at the Vegas convention who preferred to be called "fugitive recovery agents," wore suits, and talked to me about the latest technological and computer methods of their trade. To those folks, Luster's arrest in Mexico was a classic example of Chapman's Rambo mentality and they were quick to point out the result was that Mexican authorities arrested Chapman and his crew.

After some time in a cell, Chapman and company posted bond and left. Now, apparently, Mexico wants Chapman back and has declared the bounty hunter a fugitive from Mexican justice; the result was Dog's arrest yesterday in Hawaii by a U.S. marshall.

When I spoke to him in February, Chapman was hardly of the mind to give up international bounty hunting. When I asked him who he most wanted to go after next, he didn't even pause before answering: Osama bin Laden. I just hope bin Laden's cave doesn't turn out to be in Mexico.

(Photo: Sarah Gerke / For The Times)

The local restaurant industry e-mail newsletter, Eye on Vegas, published by Michael Politz of Las Vegas Food and Beverage Magazine is reporting a rumor that MGM is negotiating a deal to have rock star Lenny Kravitz open a hair salon in the Mirage casino.  They write:

One reason for Kravitz' venture, his early childhood dream of being a hairdresser.

Last night I got a message from Jeff Beacher of Beacher's Madhouse at the Hard Rock. Beacher is quickly becoming one of the most influential and connected people in Vegas entertainment, probably because he is so relentless or, to put it another way, pushy. It probably also has something to do with his ability to attract celebrities to his events, particularly hot female ones; from Tara Reid to the Hiltons, famous women love the rotund entertainer and impresario. Anyway, Beacher left a message on my voice mail inviting me to come along with him to watch Carmen Electra get a key to the city later today. Last time I met Carmen Electra was backstage at the opening of a strip club which featured a performance from husband Dave Navarro's side project Camp Freddy. The amazing thing was Navarro did as much preening as she did. What a pretty couple. They won't remember me; I never stood between either of them and a mirror.

(photo byt Lawrence K. Ho/LAT)