Alan Peppard

After sweating it out in the heat of Crüe Fest on Thursday night at Fair Park, one would think that Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee would spend Friday cowering in the air-conditioned indoors.

But that just wouldn't be Tommy.

On Friday, he decamped from the hotel pool at the W and headed up to the W residences where he joined nightlife crusader and W resident Bruce Taylor (owner of DallasCrowd.com) by the private pool. (Bruce is a former California developer who now has a career throwing parties at Dallas hotspots and bringing subscribers to his Web site.)

Naturally, Tommy Lee was accompanied by a bombshell female companion, this one a very un-Pam Anderson brunette. Others in the group included fellow W resident Steve Fly, Tommy's omnipresent bodyguard (you never know when Kid Rock will jump out and coldcock you) as well as Sandy Armour (brother of golf pro Tommy Armour III) and a personal cocktail waitress to ferry refreshments. The W's signature poolside Dreamsicle was popular with Tommy's crew.

Also joining Tommy Lee's W gathering was Wade Randolph Hampton, marketing director for N9NE Group Dallas (Ghostbar, N9NE Steakhouse and Nove Italiano).

He was recovering from his Friday night birthday party at Ghostbar attended by Carmen Electra's ex-husband, rock guitarist Dave Navarro.

Dallas Maverick Erick Dampier, sports entrepreneur Kirby Schlegel and The Edge (102.1 FM) DJ Billy Madison were among those who dropped in for the party.

Former Dallas film director Joe Camp (the creator of Benji) has stumbled upon the perfect medium to market his latest book, The Soul of a Horse. That medium is film, or rather, video.

Accustomed to directing big features, Joe had to pare his vision a bit for the 87-second opus he posted on YouTube during the weekend.

"I just worked my way into the 21st century yesterday," he explains from his home in California. There has been some adjustment to the small screen. Back when he ran his Mulberry Square Productions in Dallas, he had a theater projector and screening room in his home near NorthPark.

Go to YouTube.com and search for "Finding the Soul of a Horse," to see some beautiful horse vignettes to accompany his book, which was published by Random House's Harmony Books imprint in April.

Ever the perfectionist, Joe has a request. "For my sanity," he says, "be sure and click the 'Watch in high quality' link that is just below the screen on the right."

So what's with the summer influx of tanned, fit and comely customers filling the booths at Al Biernat's steakhouse?

"It must be because we were mentioned in Maxim this month for having great steak," says Biernat's general manager Brad Fuller.

"If you have to be here when it's over 100 outside, you might as well be in here with a bunch of beautiful people," says Brad. "You won't hear me complain."

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