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‘Project Runway’ fans make a viewing choice
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fashionably attired attendees at the launch party for Atlanta magazine’s scoop-stuffed “Style Guide” September issue faced a difficult decision Wednesday night in the Phipps Plaza Court of the South. Brave the ever-lengthening line to talk to the cocktail party’s star attraction — budding Atlanta fashion designer Michael Knight — or race home to see Knight on Wednesday night’s episode of “Project Runway” on Bravo?
As obsessed fans of the reality show clustered around the “Runway” contestant to tell him about their viewing parties, where local fans gather to cheer him on, the designer told us: “It’s all incredibly flattering. Everywhere I go, people stop me to say positive things. Everyone’s been so nice.”
We were likewise flattered to learn that Knight is a Buzz reader.
The assembled fashionistas continued to dish on Monday night’s ultra-hot, successful “Fashion Cares” benefit held a few feet away in a tent. We eavesdropped on one attendee telling a friend, “People complained about the lack of air-conditioning. Not me. It was so hot in there, I can actually fit into my fall wardrobe now!”
The party also served as an introduction for Atlanta mag’s new design director, Hector Sanchez, whose skyline-accented “Style” cover features the Gucci-clad model Nicole Lindeblad. Sanchez and his wife, Alijandra, recently relocated to Atlanta from Chicago.
They conceded that life in Atlanta requires some adjustment. We reassured them that phoning frozen friends up north on New Year’s Day, while enjoying a patio brunch here, is incredibly therapeutic… .
Restaurant welcome
New Spice chef Marvin Woods, his pastry chef Cynthia Long, Aria’s Gerry Klaskala, Rathbun’s Kevin Rathbun, Mitra’s Gerardo Ramos and Shaun’s Shaun Doty presided over a sold-out restaurant as they combined whisks Tuesday night. The star wattage in the kitchen created a one-of-a-kind, five-course meal to benefit Project Open Hand and to welcome Woods to Atlanta. And while we wish we could report some ego-ignited dish from the kitchen, the culinary all-stars were disgustingly pleasant with each other (they even donned bandannas in an affectionate salute to Turner South personality Woods’ trademark headgear).
Downstairs, we ran into Buckhead Beef Co. co-founders and veteran charitable fund-raisers Howard and Lynne Halpern, who graced us with a business card touting their new venture, Halperns’, the couple’s new steak and seafood company. We also joked with Lynne Halpern about the T-shirt we most covet. The garments, spotted around town this summer, announced the formation of the couple’s Jewish Theatre of the South Lynne and Howard Halpern Drama Camp. The front simply reads: “A Little Drama Never Hurt Anyone.” Unless you’re one of the two people who have yet to work on a fund-raiser with Lynne Halpern, chances are excellent that you just took a header into your bowl of Post Toasties… .
The way we were … had
Personally, the $750 price tag attached to Barbra Streisand’s Nov. 2 show at Philips Arena was enough to dissuade us. But some of the diva’s fans are finding themselves having to front even more money to experience misty, watercolored memories this fall. Hundreds of stolen credit card numbers have been used to purchase more than 1,000 Streisand concert tickets that were then offered for resale on the Internet, Ticketmaster officials are reporting.
Sean Moriarty, Ticketmaster’s president and chief operating officer, says the company discovered the fraud through its monitoring of Internet transactions but declined to elaborate.
The news compelled Ticketmaster this week to invalidate tickets purchased with the stolen credit card numbers.
Cities hosting shows with canceled tickets include Atlanta; Philadelphia; New York; Washington; Sunrise, Fla.; Auburn Hills, Mich.; Chicago; Las Vegas; and Atlantic City, N.J.
At press time Thursday, Streisand was contemplating making it up to fans by using an animatronic Donna Summer onstage to re-create the original 11-minute, 40-second splendor of the duo’s 1979 disco duet “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough).”
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Yvonne DeCarlo (“The Munsters”) is 84. Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin is 67. Singer Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees is 60. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw is 56. Singer Gloria Estefan is 49. Actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira (“Desperate Housewives”) is 35.
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