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Want jazz? Rochester is the place (really)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
James Brown and Etta James will join Woody Allen and 600 other jazz musicians and singers playing at this year’s Rochester International Jazz Festival in New York.
“We’re cookin’ up a musical storm” that will include a healthy dash of traditional and modern jazz from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, says festival producer John Nugent.
The fifth annual nine-day festival opens June 9 with Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band playing a benefit concert at the Eastman Theater for New Orleans’ dislocated jazz community. The 70-year-old filmmaker and clarinet player rarely performs in large venues or outside New York City.
The festival will feature about 170 performances ranging from formal concerts to free street gigs. Brown, the 72-year-old Godfather of Soul, who now has a bronze likeness in Augusta, will be the top draw at the Eastman Theater on June 10.
‘Chicken’ feed on DVD
On Friday, we finally had time to remote through all of the featured extras on the brand-new 20-episode “Robot Chicken” Season 1 DVD that the considerate folks at Cartoon Network sent over to Buzz Central this week. Fans of the Adult Swim late-night stop-motion animation series — featuring all your fave 1970s/’80s-era plastic figurines in decidedly twisted adult situations — won’t be disappointed. To promote the release, “Austin Powers” actor and “RC” co-creator Seth Green even went on “Tony Danza” last week and made omelets on live TV with the former “Who’s the Boss?” thespian. Among the prime excised material on the discs’ extras? “Citizen Spears,” an “E! True Hollywood Story” treatment of singer Britney Spears’ rise and fall (which is becoming creepily accurate) with a serious nod to “Citizen Kane.” On the disc, Green explains that the tone and the length of the satirical bit didn’t really fly with the gnat-like attention span of the rest of the show.
The second season of the Cartoon Network hit airs at 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
Also, the network will have cameras in Piedmont Park this weekend at the annual Dogwood Festival. They’re looking to shoot 10 to 60 seconds of “remarkably animated kids” for a series of upcoming spots on CN. Said the network’s Dennis Adamovich: “We want to spotlight kids whose lives reflect the unique spirit and attitude of Cartoon Network — outrageous or outrageously funny.”
Interested kids can look for the Cartoon Network booth in the park. Just try not to knock over the funnel cake cart.
Tabs put Vision in focus
No matter what Vision nightclub in Midtown actually forked over to recent spouse-of-celebrity attraction Kevin Federline (we now hear it was far below the previously floated payday of $20,000), the club got its money’s worth. Coverage of Federline and wife Britney Spears’ hourlong visit to Vision is absolutely everywhere this week.
Among the publications featuring the appearance: In Touch (complete with a cover photo), Life & Style (cover photo), the National Enquirer, OK, People, Star, US Weekly and the Mirror in the UK. Online, MTV.com, People and Us also have posted reports.
‘Lazy Snellville’ gets props
It took the better part of the week, but the fine folks in Snellville have finally figured out that they actually like “Lazy Snellville,” the very funny rap parody video created by Gwinnett filmmaker Todd Weiden. The clip that extols the virtues of the Gwinnettian town, which gave us “American Idol” finalist Diana DeGarmo, is the latest in a series of regional responses to last year’s “Lazy Sunday” digital video on “Saturday Night Live.”
Weiden happily reports to us that Snellville City Manager Jeff Timler phoned him this week to invite him and his “Lazy Snellville” co-star Mark Roper to Monday night’s council meeting.
Snellville Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer wants to recognize the pair and their Internet effort. According to Weiden, the video, posted on myspace.com and youtube.com, already has generated about 10,000 hits this week.
Coupling
Bless his heart. It’s probably a good thing that “One Tree Hill” actor Chad Michael Murray is pretty. Especially since it’s becoming glaringly obvious that the 24-year-old isn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. After marrying his co-star Sophia Bush and splitting up in a matter of months last year, Murray appeared at the 59th Azalea Festival in Wilmington, N.C., this week with a high school senior, who was wearing his diamond ring on her left ring finger.
Murray, who shoots “One Tree Hill” in Wilmington, was at Wilmington International Airport on Wednesday for the Azalea Festival queen’s welcoming ceremony.
He was with Kenzie Dalton, who was a member of the princess’ court and who has appeared on “One Tree Hill” in a minor role. People magazine’s Web site reports that the two are engaged.
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Comedian Shecky Greene is 80. Singer-actor John Schneider is 46. Guitarist Izzy Stradlin (Guns N’ Roses) is 44. Rapper Biz Markie is 42. Actress Patricia Arquette is 38.
Sunday: Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner is 80. Actress Michael Learned (“The Waltons”) is 67. Country singer Hal Ketchum is 53. Actor Dennis Quaid is 52. Actress Cynthia Nixon (“Sex and the City”) is 40. Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. of the Strokes is 26. Singer-actor Jesse McCartney (“Summerland”) is 19.
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