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Bobby Brown’s hootchy-kootchy draws boos
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alpharetta’s most esteemed resident, Bobby Brown, was back with New Edition over the weekend in Houston — and here’s a shocker: His bizarre behavior inspired the crowd to boo him off the stage.
Brown, who left the old school boy band in the 1980s for a solo career, reunited with the band Sunday night for two songs at the Essence Music Festival.
As the other five members moved to slick choreography Sunday, Brown ran around the stage wildly and performed raunchy dance moves.
The men brought the crowd to its feet with their performance of the 1985 hit “Mr. Telephone Man.”
Brown then left the stage, and the remainder of the group — original members Ralph Tresvant, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe, plus Johnny Gill, who replaced Brown — performed several ballads.
Brown followed with a solo set that started with “Don’t Be Cruel,” then quickly turned to more raunchy dancing and talk about his sex life with wife Whitney Houston.
By the time he finished with “My Prerogative,” Brown was shirtless, and many in the audience were screaming for him to get off the stage.
‘General Hospital’ pair to check in for parade
Today, “General Hospital” actors Kimberly McCullough and Jason Thompson will swap their normal work environment of smoldering heat and steaminess in an air-conditioned Los Angeles soundstage for the real deal.
The current “GH” It couple are this year’s honored guests/victims riding atop a float in WSB-TV’s Salute 2 America Parade, beginning at 1 p.m. today.
When he began on the show last year, Thompson’s main acting responsibility as Dr. Patrick Drake was to be belligerent to his new TV dad, Dr. Noah Drake, played by a returning Rick Springfield.
McCullough was lured back to the show around the same time to reprise the role of Robin Scorpio, a part she originated at age 7. She was soon joined by a reunion of her TV parents, soap superspies Robert Scorpio (played by Tristan Rogers) and Anna Devane (Finola Hughes).
So what’s it like to act again, this time as an adult on equal footing with Rogers and Hughes?
“I wouldn’t call it equal footing,” McCullough cracks. “It’s given me a lot of perspective. I didn’t realize how many little tricks I had learned from them as an actor and had adapted into my work. And back then, I was pretty protected on the set as a kid. Not anymore!”
Thompson and McCullough are quietly making soap history depicting a couple who routinely hit the sheets when one of the characters is HIV-positive. “GH” writers had Robin contract the virus as a teen from a boyfriend who later died from AIDS.
“It’s a powerful thing to tackle as an actor, to show this couple dealing with this but not allowing it to be the only focus,” Thompson says.
“It’s an opportunity to show someone living with this,” McCullough says. “I get to break a stereotype.”
After “stalking” her, McCullough is being reunited all this summer with her TV mom after a five-day guest stint by Hughes in May was a hit with fans. The actresses have remained close off-camera.
In a departing airport scene with McCullough this past spring, fans caught a glimpse of the actresses’ real-life connection. Without warning during taping, Hughes traced “I love you” in McCullough’s hand, a gesture of affection she started when McCullough was a little girl.
Laughs McCullough: “I fell completely apart on camera. As soon as they said, ‘Cut,’ I yelled to Finola, ‘I hate you!’ ”
Spice-ing up the menu early
While he’s technically not debuting his menu until this fall, we’re hearing that incoming Spice executive chef Marvin Woods has been secretly slipping a few of his signature dishes onto the menu. Fans of the Turner South “Home Plate” TV chef have also frequently spotted Woods in his trademark bandanna bopping around the Spice kitchen as well.
Thus far, Spice fans have had an opportunity to sample his seafood martini, tomato-braised monkfish with wild rice summer vegetable pilaf, arugula and spinach salad with warm applewood smoked bacon dressing, roasted ribeye steak with creamed spinach and assorted wild mushrooms and Caribbean Alaskan king crab salad with reduced orange syrup and crispy plantain chips.
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Gloria Stuart (“Titanic”) is 96. Conductor Mitch Miller is 95. Pauline Phillips, aka advice columnist Abigail Van Buren, is 88. Actress Eva Marie Saint is 82. Playwright Neil Simon is 79. Singer Bill Withers is 68. Actress Karolyn Grimes (Zuzu in “It’s A Wonderful Life”) is 66. TV talk show host Geraldo Rivera is 63. Percussionist Ralph Johnson of Earth, Wind and Fire is 55. Percussionist Domingo Ortiz of Widespread Panic is 54. Singer John Waite is 51. Bassist Matt Malley of Counting Crows is 43. Singer Stephen “Ste” McNally of BBMak is 28.
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