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Peas in VIP pod at Vision
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Black Eyed Peas had considerable junk in their trunks when the pop group rolled up to Vision nightclub late Saturday. Technically, there were four passenger vans worth of trunk involved. Peas singer Fergie, clad in a white tank top, large gold hoop earrings, long braid and black fingernail polish, arrived with boyfriend and “Las Vegas” actor Josh Duhamel, who sported a low-key black ball cap and matching hoodie. Band members Will.I.Am, apl.de.ap and Taboo quickly made friends in the Midtown club’s crammed but inexplicably coveted VIP circle. A cake and bubbly were awaiting the A-listers.
Also spotted in the packed club early Sunday morning: Miss Universe 2005 Natalie Glebova, Atlanta Hawk Josh Childress and former University of Georgia star quarterback and current Atlanta Falcons prospect D.J. Shockley. Film and record producer Dallas Austin also made the early morning scene.
Don’t look to Fonda for plain-Jane writing
It proved an exercise in futility when we screeched “Look out!” to Charlie Gibson during his “Good Morning America” interview Monday with Jane Fonda.
It didn’t help that we were a thousand miles away and in front of our TV.
And so exactly a single question into his in-studio with the two-time Oscar-winning Poncey-Highland resident, Gibson — like Buzz and countless scribblers before us — hit the infamous Fonda iceberg.
The activist-actress-author is doing the media rounds this week to promote the new paperback edition of her memoir “My Life So Far” (Random House, $16.95), which includes a fresh introduction and a companion DVD interview disc.
Reading from her newly written intro, Gibson asked about the passage: “If I had to sum it up, I would say I’m a woman, born with an abundance of resilience, who has spent her life improvising on the theme of self-transcendence.” The fill-in “World News Tonight” anchor conceded, “I have no idea what that means.”
Bang.
“It means just what it says,” Fonda replied, attempting a tight smile.
As he gingerly picked icicles from his teeth, Gibson soldiered on with a question about last month’s unpleasantness at the Gold Dome. The Georgia Senate overwhelmingly rejected a resolution honoring Fonda for her decade-long commitment to preventing teen pregnancy in the state.
“It was a small group of people,” Fonda reasoned. She went on to add that after the resolution was shot down, she received “scores of letters from people on both sides of the aisle, saying they were ashamed” about the resolution’s failure. Referencing the Vietnam vets who still won’t accept her countless public apologies, the actress allowed, “I’m a lightning rod for their pain and anger.”
While she said she is “horrified by what they’re doing in Iraq,” Fonda has opted not to pursue a national tour to speak out against the war.
“I wanted to do a tour like I did during the Vietnam War, a tour of the country,” explained Fonda. “But then Cindy Sheehan filled in the gap, and she is better at this than I am. I carry too much baggage.”
Fonda is set to appear Tuesday night on “Late Show With David Letterman.” She’s just back from a 10-day vacation in Argentina with former hubby Ted Turner, her daughter Vanessa Vadim and her grandchildren.
Of Turner, Fonda said: “He’s my favorite ex-husband. We get along great. I love to fish, and he’s got some great property down there.”
Atlanta: Every day is … ?
Andre 3000 of Atlanta rap duo OutKast, rapper, producer and label president Lil Jon and fellow rapper Da Brat were all in the audience to see a comedian who is close to having their kind of major name recognition: Katt Williams. Williams — the voice of “The Boondocks” character A Pimp Named Slickback, “Friday After Next” actor, MTV’s “Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out” participant and music video veteran — taped his first special at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center this past weekend. And why Atlanta? Well, before the sold-out show, he told Buzz, “I love [Atlanta] for all that it is. Some of my most cherished people are in Atlanta.
“Plus there are so many elements at work in Atlanta,” he continued. “A wonderful mix of people. There’s the colleges, people coming from all over the country to go to Morehouse and Spelman. The businesspeople. The thugs. The gangsters. All of the necessary elements of an audience for a comedy special.”
At the beginning of his performance, he expanded on the reason — less glowingly: “All of your dreams can come true at [adult entertainment club] Magic City, and you can be killed at the stoplight!”
At press time Monday, Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau employees were still hard at work, trying to fit the slogan onto a T-shirt.
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Barbara Hale (“Perry Mason”) is 85. Actress Hayley Mills is 60. Actor James Woods is 59. Actor Eric Roberts is 50. Actress Melody Thomas Scott (“Young and the Restless”) is 50. Actress Jane Leeves (“Frasier”) is 45. Talk show host Conan O’Brien is 43. Actor Eric McCormack (“Will and Grace”) is 43. Actress Alia Shawkat (“Arrested Development”) is 17.
Contributing: Sonia Murray and news services. If you have a tip, 404-526-2749. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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