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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Let your (World) Cup overflow for U.S. lads
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Finally, Americans are discovering the secret to loving World Cup football (er, soccer) matches as the Europeans do.
In other words, beer for breakfast and massive absenteeism from work!
To celebrate this newfound knowledge, 790 The Zone’s “Mayhem in the AM” crew featuring Nick Cellini, Steak Shapiro and Mike Bell, along with midday guy Chris Dimino, will be broadcasting live from Dantanna’s in Buckhead from 6 a.m. to noon Thursday, during the United States/Ghana match.
The aptly named event?
“The Red, White and Brews World Cup Viewing Party.” We’re told that Dantanna’s will offer flags and patriotic apparel to listeners who turn up. Distant Replays will also be giving away a U.S. jersey to the attendee who correctly picks the minute in which team USA scores its first goal.
Over at Piebar in Midtown, Todd Rushing and Bob Amick’s space-age bachelor pad/pizza eatery is springing for free suds for the whole house every time a goal is scored during World Cup games. And since Piebar recognizes that Atlanta is an international melting pot of footie fans, the free booze gets tapped any time either team puts a ball in the net. The games will be broadcast on the venue’s big screen TVs at noon and 3 p.m. only.
Boosting ‘The Boondocks’
Leave it to the ever-inventive Cartoon Network folks and Aaron McGruder to figure out a unique method of trolling for Emmy votes. To help ensure a first season Emmy nomination for “The Boondocks,” the Adult Swim late-night ‘toon adaptation of McGruder’s popular newspaper strip, some unconventional ad copy has been cropping up in Hollywood’s trade publications. The copy reads: “No black people on ‘Frasier,’ it won Emmys. No black people on ‘Will & Grace,’ it won Emmys. They finally put some black people on ‘Desperate Housewives’ and they locked one of ‘em in the basement. But [expletive] it, we’ll try anyway.”
Overscene
While on the subject of trolling for votes, gubernatorial candidates Mark Taylor and Cathy Cox have been spotted in some rather nontraditional places (well, for politcos, anyway) of late. Music executives Jermaine Dupri, Clarence Avant, Chaka Zulu and Shakir Stewart, rapper-actor Ludacris, R&B singer Bobby Valentino, the Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs’ Camille Love and politicos Kasim Reed, Ceasar Mitchell and Taylor were at Bluepointe for a reception last week for Island Def Jam Chairman Antonio “L.A.” Reid. … Meanwhile, Taylor’s gubernatorial opponent Cox was spotted walking the red carpet at Fever nightclub on Cheshire Bridge Road with such music notables as Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas of TLC, R&B singer Keith Sweat and attorney Charles Mathis, all there in celebration of Devyne Stephens’ new partnership with Universal Records.
At deadline Wednesday, Buzz was as yet unable to confirm gubernatorial incumbent Sonny Perdue’s inevitable duet performance of “Pimpin’ All Over the World” during a scheduled appearance by Ludacris this Saturday at Vision nightclub…
Wedding Watch: Day Three
Actress Naomi Watts jetted into Sydney, Australia, early Wednesday for the wedding of her longtime friend Nicole Kidman to Keith Urban. The ceremony is widely expected to be held this weekend.
Watts, who was born in Britain but raised in Australia, arrived on a flight from New York wearing a gray sweater and black pants, her hair pulled back with a purple headband.
“I’m very excited for my friend,” Watts told reporters after saying she wasn’t “at liberty to discuss” any details of the event. She and Kidman met when they were young actresses in Sydney.
The guest list for the wedding, expected to be held Sunday, reportedly includes Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi Deng, and Murdoch’s Sydney-based son Lachlan and his wife, model Sarah O’Hare.
Meanwhile, baby-bouncer/paparazzi-plagued pop tart Britney Spears may want to take some notes from the engaged couple. In an effort to make the throng of paparazzi camped outside her door more comfortable this week, Kidman sent out bottles of water and a case of beer with an attached note saying: “Enjoy! Nicole and Keith.”
Celebrity birthdays
Actor Ralph Waite (“The Waltons”) is 78. Singer-actor Kris Kristofferson is 70. “60 Minutes” correspondent Ed Bradley is 65. Journalist Brit Hume is 63. Singer Alan Osmond of the Osmonds is 57. Actress Meryl Streep is 57. Actress Lindsay Wagner is 57.
Contributing: Sonia Murray 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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