SHORT TAKES : Vegas Bash Set for Burns’ 95th
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LAS VEGAS — Caesars Palace is planning a gala birthday bash next month to honor the city’s most senior member of the entertainment set, comedian George Burns.
Burns will celebrate his 95th birthday at a private party for invited guests Jan. 18 and a public performance Jan. 19.
Until then, the entertainer, born Nathan Birnbaum on Jan. 20, 1896, isn’t exactly sitting around counting his birthday candles.
He appears several times a year at Caesars resorts in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Nev., and Atlantic City and has just released his eighth book, “All My Best Friends.”
He’ll be taping a television special next month to mark his birthday, and a fourth “Oh, God!” movie is being written for him.
The new Burns book includes anecdotes about Eddie Cantor when he was a singing waiter in a Coney Island saloon; Milton Berle as a boy in a shoe ad, and the Marx Brothers when they were a musical act.
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