Columnist Kate Maddox: Nevada’s first 100 female attorneys honored

Kate Maddox

Sunday, Oct. 24, 1999 | 10:10 a.m.

Kate Maddox's column appears Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, only in the Las Vegas Sun. Reach her at kmaddox@vegas.com or 259-2309. To subscribe to the Sun, call 383-0400.

Thursday night at Chinois, Nevada's first 100 female attorneys were honored. Many important Nevada politicos and lawyers, as well as five members of Nevada's Supreme Court, came out to congratulate their predecessors, peers and cohorts.

Barbara Lazaroff, wife of Wolfgang Puck, hosted the event along with restaurant partners Tom Kaplan and David Robins. Lazaroff said how excited she was to bring Puck's San Francisco eatery, Postrio, to Las Vegas. She plans to open the new restaurant with the rest of the Wolfgang Puck team in early December.

Those honored at the event included Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, Nevada Supreme Court Justices Deborah Agosti, Nancy Becker and Miriam Shearing. Perhaps the most treasured honoree of all was 90-year-old former Las Vegas attorney Emilie Wanderer.

Judge Jennifer Togliatti, who presided over the Sandra Murphy/Ted Binion preliminary hearing, was there along with UNLV law school Dean Richard Morgan and potential Nevada senatorial contender Ed Bernstein.

Proceeds from the event, which raised about $200,000, went to Safe Nest, which helps women and children who suffer from domestic violence.

The second annual Canon Charity Golf Invitational comes to Las Vegas on Nov. 14. Celebrities and sports legends will tee off to support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Dennis Franz, Ray Romano, Robert Wagner, Buzz Aldrin, Melissa Joan Hart, former L.A. Laker James Worthy, former NFL player Eddie Payton and others will tee off for yet another celebrity pro-am tournament to be held here in Vegas.

Former "Roseanne" star Michael Fishman, who played the youngest Conner, D.J., on the sitcom, tied the knot in Vegas on Friday night. Fishman, 18, and his bride Jenny Briner, also 18, will soon be parents. Briner is expecting the couple's first child in a few months.

Fishman announced his plans to get married on Roseanne's talk show last week. He told his former TV mom that he was finally making her a grandmother.

Anthony Quinn and his brood stopped into Nevada Nick's restaurant at the Resort at Summerlin on Thursday night. Quinn and Nick's owner Nicholas Nickolas have been friends for about 25 years and while the actor was in town to help open the new Markman Gallery, which features his art, and also to donate one of his paintings to UMC, the two Greeks got together for dinner.

In fact, little Ryan Nicholas, 3, and his older sister, Antonia, 6, hit it off with Nickolas' two daughters, Ruby, 7, and Dolly, 9. The kids spent much of Friday playing together while their dads hung out and caught up on some old times.

There were some Vegas pranksters at work at the McCarran airport baggage claim late last week.

Nationally known sports radio talk show host "Papa" Joe Chevalier was the victim. Chevalier, a former Las Vegas radio star who is currently based in Chicago, is a self-professed New York Yankee and Dallas Cowboy hater. He trashes the teams on his daily radio show, heard locally weekdays on KENO 1460-AM, whenever he gets the chance.

That trash talk came back to haunt him. Chevalier, who was arriving in Vegas to broadcast his show from the site of Saturday night's Tyson bout, had a run-in with some United Airlines baggage handlers.

When his luggage finally came around on the baggage carousel each of his four bags had crayon-written signs taped to them: "Papa Joe, Dallas Fan Club President" and "I love the Yankees!!." The signs were big enough to garner some strange looks from the crowd and a red-faced Chevalier did his best not to seem embarrassed.

Chevalier lauded the prank at the start of the following day's radio show, calling it one of the best he has endured. Las Vegans take their sports seriously ... you've been warned.