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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Chicks reschedule Atlanta for December
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Dixie Chicks’ concert originally scheduled for Oct. 17 at Philips Arena has been moved to Dec. 2. According to Trey Feazell, the arena’s vice president of booking/events, tickets for the original show date will be honored in December. Feazell said the show was moved due to tour routing issues. The routing certainly has changed — if you check out the tour itinerary at www.dixiechicks.com, you’ll notice that the controversial country trio is now scheduled to perform Oct. 17 in Melbourne, Australia.
From now on, just call him Mr. Sunshine
Aaron Landau Schwarz, “eccentric” Internet millionaire and owner of T-Shirt Hell (sample T-shirt: “Bin Laden is a Big Fat Doodiehead”), has made his pick of the names offered as entries in the “Give Me a Name” contest. Drumroll, please. Henceforth Mr. Schwarz will be known as: Sunshine Megatron.
Schwarz sponsored the contest at www.givemeaname.com because he didn’t like his original moniker.
The winning name-suggesters are two guys, William Findlay from Scotland and Casimir Rodriguez from Illinois (whom Megatron’s people haven’t contacted yet). They will split the $25,000 prize money.
Personally, Buzz thinks Megatron should have gone with “Casimir Rodriguez.”
Don’t snicker at this contest
So it’s too late to make any money off Megatron’s contest. But you can still pull down 25, large, by singing about candy. Fans of the chocolaty, peanutty, caramel treat Snickers can give voice to their emotion by entering the Satisfaction Sing-Off and writing and performing an original paean to the love bar.
One-time celebrity husband Nick Lachey, who is described as a “lifetime Snickers fan,” and whose upcoming tour is being supported by a certain candy maker, will judge the finals event in Los Angeles, during which songsters will rhapsodize about how they are “satisfied” by that brick of goodness — taking care, by the way, to include the words “peanuts,” “chocolate,” “caramel” and “nougat” in their songs. (It’s required.) For details, go to www.snickerssatisfies.com. It’s funnier than we feel right now.
Cruiseball
When you pay for Tom Cruise, you get the whole family. The Cruises, including girlfriend Katie Holmes, daughter Isabella, 13, and son Connor, 11, took in a Redskins game Monday, sitting in owner Dan Snyder’s box, after arriving wrapped in a thick layer of security and schmoozing with the other invited dignitaries.
On Sunday, Cruise put in some face-time at the Six Flags park in suburban Washington that Snyder also owns. And The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the Cruises — including Vanity Fair cover baby Suri — are staying at Snyder’s Potomac, Md., home. New best friend Snyder stepped in to underwrite Cruise’s productions after the actor was dropped by Paramount Pictures last month.
Striking at childhood cancer
The second annual Quiet Heroes auction Saturday at the Westin Buckhead raised about $160,000 for childhood cancer research, about $60,000 more than in its inaugural year, due at least partly to the drawing power of glamorous speaker Chris Glavine and to the autographed jerseys, bats and balls contributed by her husband, former Brave Tom Glavine, and by his buddies — Braves pitcher John Smoltz and Dodgers pitcher Greg Maddux.
The blond Mrs. Glavine clutched a rosary, terrified of speaking in front of the crowd of 500, but made it through in style. Also speaking was Liz Scott, whose daughter started Alex’s Lemonade Stand and who has raised $7 million for cancer research since Alex died two years ago. Scott received a check from Macy’s for $45,000 from the proceeds of lemonade sales in Alex’s memory at several stores this summer.
Celebrity birthdays
Pop singer Fiona Apple (“Extraordinary Machine”) is 29; Ringo Starr’s drummer son Zak Starkey (he occupies Keith Moon’s drum throne with the Who) is 41; talk host and NPR commentator Tavis Smiley is 42; thrash metal guitarist Dave Mustaine (Megadeth, Metallica) is 45; animator Don Bluth (“Land Before Time”) is 68; and, oddly enough, two singers from two rival so-called jazz-rock bands of the 1970s celebrate birthdays today, David Clayton Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is 65 and Peter Cetera (Chicago) is 62.
Contributing: Lynne Anderson 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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