Friday, April 3, 1998 | 9:02 a.m.
Los Angeles' own ladies' man, Pauly Shore, will flaunt his unique persona at the Sunset Station hotel-casino at 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday.
"You mean like our president? -- well, I like women!" Shore explains.
"I am not a womanizer, they womanize me. They come up to me and say things like 'I want to have sex with you' or offer me their phone number or tell me to come to their house to meet their parents. I just sit there! I am not popular -- it's because that's my persona. When I was on MTV ('Totally Pauly') I was very surrounded with woman, so it kind of just snowballed, but really I am like an insecure Jew ... like Woody Allen."
Besides Shore's love for women, he has another side to him: Comedy. The son of comedian Sammy Shore and Mitzi Shore, owner/director of the Comedy Stores in Hollywood and San Diego, Pauly Shore says that comedy is in his blood.
He began his career on MTV's "Totally Pauly" in 1990, but he didn't reach stardom until he moved to movies. He signed a three-picture deal with Hollywood Pictures to star in 1992's "Encino Man," '93's "Son-in-Law" and '94's "In the Army Now." They were followed by "Jury Duty" in '95, "Bio-Dome" in '96 and last year's "Curse of Inferno."
Also last year, Shore starred in the short-lived weekly sitcom "Pauly."
"I think they put it on hold for awhile," Pauly says, clearly dissatisfied with the turn of events. "Kind of like canceled, you know!"
As for this year, Shore has a couple of projects he is working on. "I am starting a movie in the summer that's an independent movie, like a character movie-type thing," he says. "Then I am going to direct and star in a movie that I wrote, 'You'll Never Wheeze in this Town Again.' It's like a comedy about Hollywood.
"I play myself in it. It's an exaggeration of the truth, which a lot of good comedies are. It's basically about, you know, when a celebrity dies, the media makes him to be more popular than they are? Well, in my movie, I fake my death to become popular again, and then it backfires on me."
The "character movie" is titled "What He's Got" and he describes it as "an ensemble relationship movie." Shore also dabbled in animation with the movie "Goofy," and plans to work on a second "Goofy" this summer.
Any last words for Las Vegas, Pauly? "Viva los Bio-Dome!"
Tickets for Pauly Shore's performances cost $22.50, $18.50 and $15, plus tax, and can be purchased at Sunset Station's VIP Experience Center or at any Ticketmaster outlet. For more information, call 547-7777.
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