Alan Peppard

It wasn't just football players in Las Vegas at the retirement party for former Dallas Cowboy Marco Rivera. Jessica Simpson made the scene, too, to be with her man Tony Romo. (Because of his back problems, the Cowboys released Marco last summer. The former Green Bay Packer is responsible for introducing Tony to Brett Favre three years ago at a golf tournament in Tunica, Miss.)

FoxNews.com is reporting that Jess pulled her man away from the boys and up to their lavish suite at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, where they made use of the room's private bowling alley.

For those who are interested, the Hard Rock's penthouse suite is designed like an English rock star's pad. The 5,000-square-foot space has a bowling alley, a six-person hot tub and a 500-square-foot master bathroom with steam shower, and goes for $10,000 a night.

"Kiss me, Meat." OK, if Miley Cyrus said it, it would be creepy. But if it's Clarice Tinsley talking to singer Meat Loaf, it's OK. "He prefers to be called Meat," says Clarice. The Fox 4 News anchor hosted the Dallas native last Saturday night.

Meat Loaf was back in his hometown for the USA Film Festival screening of the documentary In Search of Paradise from his Bat Out of Hell III tour. After the show at the Angelika, Clarice and her husband, Stephen Giles, past president of the USAFF, hosted a soiree at their Strait Lane home attended by Meat and his fiancée, Deborah Gillespie, and his aunt Mary Hukel.

And yes, Meat did give Clarice a little kiss on the cheek. "I'm still thrilled," she says.

Meat Loaf wasn't the only Texas celebrity at Clarice and Stephen's Saturday party. Still looking like a tough guy at 77, actor Rip Torn arrived at the house wearing a sharp suit and a cowboy hat.

Earlier in the evening, the USA Film Festival hosted "A Tribute to Rip Torn" and followed it with screenings of his current film, August, and his 1984 film Songwriter, with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson.

Born in Temple and a Texas A&M grad, Rip is still a hot commodity. He is a regular on TV's smartest comedy, 30 Rock, playing Alec Baldwin's boss, GE chairman Don Geiss.

Sunday night, Prison Break bad guy Robert Knepper (a.k.a. Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell) turned up at American Airlines Center for the Mavs-Hornets Game 4.

The Writers Guild strike is over, but the cast and crew of Prison Break won't be returning to Dallas anytime soon. The third season will be shot in LA. Because Rob/T-Bag's son is still in school, he hung around Dallas a bit longer, but he, too, is packing.

Sunday, he joined Lone Star Park vice president G.W. Hail in an AAC suite to watch the playoff game.

"It was sort of a going-away present before he heads back to LA," says G.W. "After several text messages to the right person, he one-upped me and got us moved to the floor, five rows behind Mark Cuban, for the second half."

After the game, Rob and G.W. ended up in front of the fireplace on the patio at Fearing's, smoking cigars, sipping tequila and eating lobster nachos.