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Fallen would-be star
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Chris Pierson, Atlanta’s representative on CBS’ “Rock Star Supernova,” was booted Wednesday night by the band after judges criticized him for a lack of identity.
“There’s a certain level of authenticity in your performance that’s missing,” judge Dave Navarro said on Tuesday after Pierson performed Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out.”
On Wednesday, the public picked the bottom three, including Pierson. From there, the newly created Supernova band listened to each singer one more time.
Pierson, who works at Hard Rock Cafe downtown and heads a band, Streetlight Syndrome, failed to sway the judges with his version of the Tonic song “If You Could Only See.” Gilby Clarke, formerly of Guns n’ Roses, said the fact the public had voted Pierson in the bottom three two weeks in a row hurt his cause.
“It’s been a crazy ride so far,” Pierson told the band after he was nixed. “Now it’s over, but there’s a long way to go yet for me.”
Surprisingly, Tommy Lee, the wild Motley Crue drummer, is coming across as the Paula Abdul of the judges. “There are no losers, bro,” Lee burbled. “All of you are winners just to be at this level here. You won, bro.”
Olympic moment ‘electric’
Our question for Dick Ebersol, executive producer of NBC Olympics coverage since 1992, and co-creator (with Lorne Michaels) of “Saturday Night Live,” was simple: Who misbehaved more, the partying athletes in the Olympic Village or the nutballs backstage at “SNL”?
Ebersol claimed to have been in the control room during the Games and unaware of any hanky panky. As for SNL, he said, the cast and crew are calmer these days: Backstage is “almost like being on a pleasant Caribbean vacation.”
Ebersol will join “voice of the Olympics” Bob Costas Satuday during a gathering at Centennial Park to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 1996 Atlanta Games and to honor the thousands of Olympic volunteers.
Contacted at his summer home on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, Ebersol said the ‘96 Games provided what he said was the most riveting scene of any Olympics competition in his experience: When Muhammad Ali was revealed by the spotlights during the Opening Ceremonies, holding the lighted torch that would set the caldron aflame.
“It was, to me, after all the Olympics that I’ve been involved with and produced through the years, my favorite, most electric moment.” The Centennial Olympic Park event, which is free, begins at 6 p.m.
Jolie, Pitt to tell slain reporter’s story on film
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, whose relationship was spawned on a film set, will again work together — this time on a movie based on the life of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan.
Jolie will star as Pearl’s wife, Mariane Pearl, in an adaptation of her book, “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl,” it was announced Thursday. Pitt will produce the film, which will be directed by Michael Winterbottom.
The movie will be produced by Revolution Films and Plan B, the production company Pitt and his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, founded. Pitt and Aniston, who were divorced last year, remain co-owners of the company.
It is the first announced role for Jolie, 31, since the birth of her daughter with Pitt, Shiloh Nouvel, in Namibia in May. The couple have two older children, 18-month-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia, and 4-year-old Maddox, adopted from Cambodia.
Pitt, 42, and Jolie first collaborated as co-stars in last year’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”
The movie will be based on Mariane Pearl’s account of her husband’s abduction in Karachi, Pakistan, where he was researching a story on Islamic militancy. Months later, his beheaded body was found in a shallow grave in a compound on the outskirts of Karachi.
Cash back on top
He died nearly three years ago, but Johnny Cash is back at the top of the charts — for the first time in 37 years.
“American V: A Hundred Highways,” a compilation of recordings by the Man in Black, reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart with 88,000 copies, according to the Web site billboardradiomonitor.com. It was the lowest sales figure for a No. 1 album since Nielsen Soundscan began measuring in the early ’90s.
The disc is Cash’s first No. 1 album since 1969’s “Johnny Cash at San Quentin.” It also tops Billboard’s country albums chart, pushing the Dixie Chicks’ “Taking the Long Way” to second place.
Celebrity birthdays
Movie and stage director Ingmar Bergman is 88. Actor Harry Dean Stanton is 80. Country singer Del Reeves is 74. Actor Matthew Fox (“Lost,” “Party of Five”) is 40. Actress Missy Gold (“Benson”) is 36. Musician Taboo of Black Eyed Peas is 31.
Contributing: Bo Emerson, Rodney Ho and news services. If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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