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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
‘Peachtree Battle’ tries a dame
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The search for “Peachtree Battle” matriarch Azalea Wieuca has now extended across the Atlantic. John Gibson and Anthony Morris, the playwrights of the seemingly indefatigable Ansley Park Playhouse stage production, met last week with Judi Dench in London about the role in a film version. Explains Gibson: “She has a brilliant comedic side which is rarely seen.” As for the obvious question as to whether a Brit could play the boozy, bitter Southern belle, Morris quipped: “It worked pretty well in ‘Gone With the Wind.’ “
The writers are taking the leisurely way back to the United States, via a cruise aboard the Queen Mary 2, to work on the screenplay adaptation of “Peachtree Battle.”
Explains Gibson: “The middle of the Atlantic is the only place my cellphone doesn’t ring.”
Fonda’s next role?
While Poncey-Highland actress Jane Fonda’s name has also been bandied about for the planned film version of “Peachtree Battle,” she might have another script to memorize. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fonda, “Desperate Housewives” actress and “Transamerica” Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman and teen queen Lindsay Lohan are in talks to co-star in “Georgia Rule,” “a dark comedy” to be directed by “Pretty Woman” and “Princess Diaries” director Garry Marshall.
According to the Tinseltown bible, the flick “centers on a rebellious young woman (Lohan) who is sent by her dysfunctional mother (Huffman) to spend a summer with her grandmother (Fonda)” after various vehicular scrapes with speeding paparazzi.
OK, so technically, we embellished those last seven words. …
Morgan Creek Productions is attached to the film that could get a late August shooting start.
For purely selfish reasons, we hope this is all on the level because Marshall is the only person we’ve ever interviewed who can reduce us to a snorting, giggling hyena 12 seconds into an interview.
Go ahead, eat up, it’s all for a good cause
In a year dominated by other pressing charitable needs, the organizers of today’s Dine Out for Project Open Hand enlisted some heavy-duty Atlanta foodies to help out.
Bob Amick, the mastermind behind One Midtown Kitchen, Two Urban Licks, Piebar and Lobby, along with pal and Murphy’s owner Tom Murphy, and Jeff Landau, who has graced the city with enduring faves like Einstein’s, Joe’s on Juniper, Garrison’s Broiler & Tap and Cowtippers, are serving as co-chairs for the daylong dining fund-raiser.
More than 200 Atlanta-area eateries will donate 20 percent of Wednesday’s total receipts from breakfast, lunch and dinner orders toward the city’s nonprofit Meals on Wheels program for seniors and folks dealing with illness, including HIV/AIDS, cancer and other disabling diseases.
For Amick, whose commitment to raising money for HIV/AIDs extends back to the HeartStrings benefits in the past millennium, lending his time and support was a no-brainer.
“Sure, there are many, many charities out there right now that need our help,” Amick told Buzz Tuesday. “But this is at home in our backyard. Project Open Hand’s work isn’t any less important today. Hopefully, us lending a hand will help grow the event further. We need even more restaurants to step up in the future.”
Amick says he wants his futuristic spacious space pod patio at Piebar packed all day.
Landau, in addition to donating services and staff to the event, will be popping into each of his Metrotainment Cafe properties today for a quick bite.
“Even back when we were just one restaurant, we always participated,” Landau told us. “Our company is extremely proud to have raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for Project Open Hand over the past 14 years. We want to do our part to help them inject some new ideas and approaches for the Dine Out event.”
For a complete list of participating restaurants, go to: dineoutforpoh.com.
Celebrity birthdays
Actress-comedian Carol Burnett is 73. Guitarist-songwriter Duane Eddy is 68. Drummer Roger Taylor of Duran Duran is 46. Actor Jet Li is 43. Actor-comedian Kevin James (“The King of Queens”) is 41. Singer Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins of TLC is 36. Actor Tom Welling (“Smallville”) is 29.
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