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Monday, October 23, 2006
Save the world or hawk a documentary?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fictional character Jack Bauer of “24” fame would be perplexed by the behavior of the actor who plays him, Kiefer Sutherland.
He’d find Sutherland’s desire to promote a band on his music label — Rocco DeLuca and the Burden — inconsequential compared with, oh, saving America from terrorists and nuclear bombs.
Bauer would find it odd that Sutherland would fly into Atlanta in the middle of filming the sixth season of “24” to promote a documentary, “I Trust You to Kill Me,” at the Lefont Plaza Theater. In it, Sutherland spends two weeks in Europe as tour manager for the band. (The actor chose Atlanta as one of four cities to promote the movie because 99X radio has given the band so much airplay.)
Bauer would find Sutherland’s lack of organizational skills and incessant carousing irritating. In the film, which is as much about Sutherland as the band, the self-deprecating actor loses his cellphone and, during one drunken escapade, goofily jumps head first into a Christmas tree.
Bauer would probably relate more to the intense, laconic lead singer DeLuca. In the film and at a crowded Smith’s Olde Bar appearance Saturday night, DeLuca resembled an angrier version of Dave Matthews but wails like Robert Plant and embodies the internal angst of the late Jeff Buckley.
Bauer and Sutherland do have one thing in common, though: Bauer is rarely seen eating anything, and Sutherland, when offered exotic vittles in Iceland, explained,
“I don’t like food.”
To thine own groove be true
Speaking of A-listers, Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx came to town for his annual Laffapalooza comedy fest at Center Stage in Midtown. Before the Saturday show, he graciously answered questions for a rapt audience of college students interested in the music business.
Foxx’s best advice: To do what you want to do, you often have to do something for the suits. “You do eight songs for them, four for you,” he said. “Do one movie for them, two for yourself. And sometimes what you do works, like ‘Ray.’ Nobody thought it would do what it did.”
He also gave props to Atlanta’s hip-hop sound: “What’s great about Jermaine Dupri and the movement is you made it your own. You took over. At one point it was East Coast, West Coast. Now everyone is coming here to get hits.”
To solidify that point, Atlanta sensation T.I. made a surprise appearance at Laffapalooza that night to sing a few songs.
Diss your digs and maybe win
Former Grant Park resident Ty Pennington and ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” are looking for Georgia residents for Season Four.
The top 20 show, as fans already know, seeks inspirational stories that will cause millions to tear up every Sunday night. Interested families should e-mail a brief synopsis of their story, along with family members’ names and what’s wrong with their house, to Veronica at castinggeorgia@yahoo.com by Wednesday. Go to abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/casting.html for more info.
Party time with Tom Joyner
Tom Joyner, the country’s most popular black morning radio host, made his annual trip to the Atlanta Civic Center on Friday for his live “Sky Show,” heard locally on Kiss 104.1. Among his guests: silky crooner Jeffrey Osborne, Kenny Lattimore, Chanté Moore and former Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins.
During the show, Joyner name-dropped virtually every major black R&B or hip-hop artist who lives in town, from Usher to Ludacris, and one white dude: Elton John. And corporation representatives traipsed onstage with oversized checks to give out $90,000 in scholarships for Joyner’s foundation.
But Joyner never mentioned that his biggest sponsor, Southwest Airlines, doesn’t serve Atlanta. The audience winners of free Southwest tickets will have to pull a Clark Howard and drive 140 miles to Birmingham to use them.
Joyner gears these shows as much for the thousands who come to party early in the morning as for his radio audience. The old-school dance contest, for example, translated poorly on the air but got the audience hopping. Even during commercial breaks, Joyner tirelessly worked the crowd. Offering free T-shirts to all active military members, he laughed when an elderly man came to the stage. “Which war did you serve?” Joyner cracked. “The Civil War?”
Country music blues
Country music star Keith Urban, who battled a cocaine addiction in the 1990s, has checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse, according to a statement he released Friday. Urban, who recently married actress Nicole Kidman, will likely cancel upcoming promotional appearances for his latest CD, “Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing.” … Meanwhile, another country singer’s personal life is also going south. Sara Evans’ estranged husband, Craig Schelske, alleges that his wife had an affair, according to court papers filed Friday in Franklin, Tenn. He also claims she had a nervous breakdown in 2005. In her filing, she alleges that he had an affair with the nanny.
Celebrity birthdays
Director Ang Lee is 52. Jazz singer Dianne Reeves is 50. Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 50. “Weird Al” Yankovic is 47.
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