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Friday, March 24, 2006
Love help for giant pandas
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Zoo Atlanta can’t accuse Dave FM midday personality Mara Davis of not doing her part to help with a giant panda pregnancy as Lun Lun and Yang Yang approach maximum opportunity this week. On Thursday’s Radio Free Lunch, hosted by Davis, she held her second annual “Music to Get the Pandas in the Mood” set.
Among the requests called in by listeners: “I Want You to Want Me” by Cheap Trick; “China Girl” by David Bowie; “Your Body is a Wonderland” by John Mayer; “Need You Tonight” by INXS; “Crash Into Me” by Dave Matthews Band; “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye; “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood; “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” by the Beatles; and for good measure, the 1970s cheese classic “Afternoon Delight” by the Starland Vocal Band.
Reported Davis to Buzz Central: “My favorite listener comment was from a guy who said ‘Mara, you did this last year and the only one who got pregnant was you.’ Yikes!”
Chef ends up skewered in ‘South Park’ cartoon
Oh my God, they killed Chef.
In a satirically inspired move that surprised few, “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker knocked off the Comedy Central ‘toon’s head cafeteria chef in Wednesday night’s 10th-season premiere. Veteran soul singer Isaac Hayes, a Scientologist, quit his gig as the voice of Chef last week in a dust-up over last fall’s episode that skewered the religion and Scientologist Tom Cruise. Using cobbled-together old voice work recorded by the former Atlantan for the series, Stone and Parker brought back Hayes’ character only to brainwash him and give him a particularly grisly going away.
Well, if you call being struck by lightning, falling down a ravine, being impaled, and being dismembered by a cougar and a bear grisly, that is.
At a funeral, Chef was mourned as a jolly guy whose brains were scrambled by the “Super Adventure Club.”
“We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains,” the potty-mouthed “South Park” kids said.
The thinly disguised satire continued the show’s feud with Scientologists.
The singer, best known for his work with Stax Records in Memphis and composing the Oscar-winning theme to the movie “Shaft,” had voiced Chef since 1997.
He left because of what he called the animated show’s religious “intolerance and bigotry.”
In what could also be interpreted as an intended message to Hayes from Stone and Parker, the “South Park” kids eulogized their former mentor, saying, “A lot of us don’t agree with the choices the Chef has made in the last few days. Some of us feel hurt and confused that he seemed to turn his back on us. But we can’t let the events of the past few weeks take away the memories of how Chef made us smile.”
The door for Hayes’ return wasn’t completely closed. In the show’s final scene, members of the Super Adventure Club managed to resuscitate Chef and, in a take-off on “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith,” turned him into a sort of Darth Chef villain complete with a spatula-shaped light saber weapon.
Grand opening
Elbow room was at a premium at Wednesday night’s opening of Sandee O. Photography in Buckhead. Owner Sandee Oliver Bartkowski, known for her Polaroid transfer method and large format photographs, was greeted by a bevy of friends. Husband and former Atlanta Falcon Steve Bartkowski, just released from the hospital Saturday after a second successful colon cancer surgery, helped welcome guests at the Roswell Road gallery, including: Buckhead Coalition president Sam Massell; Falcons owner Arthur Blank and his wife, Stephanie; former Falcons Jamal Anderson, Morten Andersen, Brian Kozlowski and Travis Hall; socialites Sandra Baldwin, Barbara Babbit Kaufman, Cathy Selig and Lisa Stein; and Star 94’s Vikki Locke. The gallery’s owner also received flowers and a personal note from longtime friend and “Pink Panther” star Steve Martin.
Also on hand was InterContinental Buckhead hotel manager Pascal Forotti, who catered the event. We’re told that the evening served as Forotti’s final night in the ATL. He’s accepted a new gig at the InterContinental in Chicago.
Celebrity birthdays
Cartoonist Joseph Barbera of Hanna and Barbera is 95. “The View” co-host Star Jones Reynolds is 44. Singer-violinist Sharon Corr of the Corrs is 36. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is 36. Actress and former Atlantan Alyson Hannigan (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”) is 32. Actress Keisha Castle-Hughes (“Whale Rider”) is 16.
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