• After the commercial disappointment of Grindhouse, you might expect Quentin Tarantino to retreat to familiar ground. But he won't be doing it with a long-rumored film about the Vega brothers (that is, John Travolta's character from Pulp Fiction and Michael Madsen's from Reservoir Dogs). "I gotta say, it's looking unlikely now," Tarantino said on XM radio's Opie & Anthony Show last week. "I even had a title for it: Double V Vega. It would have taken place through the time that Vincent was in Amsterdam, running one of Marcellus's clubs." Noting that both Vega brothers die in their respective films, he added, "[I]t would have to be a prequel."

• How many helpers does a billionaire need to empty his bladder? Three, if the billionaire in question is Steve Wynn. The Las Vegas-based developer and Picasso-destroyer was in Albany yesterday for hearings about who will get the franchise for New York-area racetracks. At one point, Wynn headed to the bathroom, flanked by two male bodyguard types and a woman who appeared to be an aide of some sort. The bodyguards followed him into the john; the aide waited demurely outside the door.

• When Rachel Dratch breaks out a new fitness guru character for an SNL spinoff flick, remember: You heard it here first. Dratch seemed inspired in a total body conditioning class at a New York Sports Club in Manhattan recently, says a spy who was in the same class. "We had this insane instructor who kept yelling out, 'Come on Honey Bunnies, you can do it!' and 'Alright, Honey Bunnies, find your range! There is your range, Honey Bunnies.' etc., etc. She was all about the Honey Bunny and obsessed with 'the range'—finding it, working in it, owning it." The fitness source says Dratch was giggling through the whole workout. "It was seriously like you could see her wheels turning for a potential sketch." Hey, if Will Farrell can play an ice skater ...

UPDATE: An alert reader points out that Tarantino's comments came during the portion of Opie & Anthony's show that is also broadcast on terrestrial radio station WFNY.
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