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Sunday, June 4, 2006
Ex-hubby, Jimmy Carter get in a few digs at Fonda
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As the child of a pair of Sunday school teachers, we grew increasingly uncomfortable as the f-bomb was liberally lobbed in front of former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter late Thursday night during the Jane Fonda celebrity roast at the Georgia Aquarium.
However, in our capacity as Peach Buzz scribbler, we were delighted to share with you some additional morsels from the soiree.
As reported Friday in the AJC, the sold-out fund-raiser for Fonda’s Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention attracted 650 attendees and celebrity roasters Larry King, OutKast’s Big Boi, playwright Eve Ensler, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Rosie O’Donnell, “Rush Hour” actor Chris Tucker and Ted Turner, Fonda’s ex and date for the night.
The sometimes blue language, explicit sex talk and occasionally surreal commentary from the celebrities onstage inspired King to dub the evening, “The world’s strangest and most unique roast I’ve ever witnessed.”
Sleeping with a movie star could be intimidating, Turner told the crowd. “The first time we went to bed, Jane asked, ‘What’s my motivation?’”
The CNN founder also conceded that using Fonda’s name during their marriage was far more effective when trying to secure a restaurant reservation.
“That’s why I’ve decided to hyphenate my name to Ted Turner-Fonda,” he said. “Because occasionally I need to eat somewhere other than Ted’s Montana Grill.”
Via videotape from New York, “Late Show” host David Letterman couldn’t resist taking a jab at King’s much younger wife.
“Hey, Larry,” Letterman instructed the roast host, “tell your wife to stop calling.”
Giving the toast, Carter told the crowd that he had originally categorized Fonda as a “Communist sympathizer” but got to know her personally on fishing trips during her marriage to Turner.
“I never dreamed how jealous Ted Turner could be,” Carter cracked. “He had no reason to be. He was younger, more handsome and wealthier. This was before the Time-Warner merger.”
At the end of the evening, Fonda took to the stage to thank attendees and to take a couple of good-natured swings at her “favorite ex-husband.”
Said Fonda: “Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.”
ASO ‘adventurous’ award
Here’s more proof, if you need it, that the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is on the cutting edge of contemporary music. The ASO accepted an award for “adventurous programming” Friday in Los Angeles from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and the American Symphony Orchestra League.
It is the fifth ASCAP award for the ASO. The other four were in the 1980s, said spokeswoman Renee Vary.
The award honors orchestras that make “extraordinary efforts to expand the symphonic repertoire and develop and educate orchestra audiences.” Some of the highlights of the ASO’s 2005-‘06 season, according to ASCAP: two works by superstar composer Osvaldo Golijov, “Ainadamar” and “La Pasión según San Marcos”; the video game-inspired “Dear Friends: Music From Final Fantasy” by Nobuo Uematsu; and Atlanta-raised composer Jennifer Higdon’s “Dooryard Bloom,” a dark, 24-minute cantata for solo baritone based on Walt Whitman’s elegy for Abraham Lincoln.
Uncoupling
Attention Atlanta hoochie mamas (and if you dressed in a halter top at Vision nightclub when K-Fed was in town, you qualify). The “sexiest man alive” is available again. Yes, “We Are Marshall” actor Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz “have decided to split,” Cruz spokesman Robert Garlock told The Associated Press on Friday. McConaughey’s rep, Alan Nierob, confirmed the breakup, first reported by People magazine.
McConaughey, People’s reigning hunk of hunks, has been consistently spotted around the ATL with his dog Foxy as he and the cast of “Marshall” shoot the sports flick here.
This fall, Cruz, 32, stars in Pedro Almódovar’s “Volver” (“Return”).
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Actor Tony Curtis is 81. Game show host Chuck Barris (“The Gong Show”) is 77. Newsman Anderson Cooper is 39. Actress Lalaine Dupree (“Lizzie McGuire”) is 19.
Sunday: Singer Gordon Waller of Peter and Gordon is 61. Actor Parker Stevenson is 54. Actor Scott Wolf (“Everwood”) is 38. Actor Noah Wyle (“ER”) is 35. Comedian Horatio Sanz (“Saturday Night Live”) is 32. Actress Angelina Jolie is 31.
Contributing: Kirsten Tagami and news services. If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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