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Dre takes in a movie, talks about his own
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OutKast’s André 3000 and CNN’s Thomas Roberts were among those in the audience Tuesday night as Atlantans got their first look at “Running With Scissors,” the twisted comedy-drama based on Augusten Burroughs’ best-selling memoir.
The jampacked screening at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 16 (some Burroughs fans had to be turned away) featured an end credit Q&A with the writer, who turned up in a tan suede fringed jacket.
Since Dre was conveniently seated directly behind us, we chatted briefly with him about the eventual DVD release of the recent OutKast Prohibition-period musical “Idlewild.” He told us fans can look forward to an added musical performance of “Clock” that didn’t make it into the theatrical release, as well as the possibility of commentary from Big Boi and director Bryan Barber.
The multimedia mogul also told us that he was well-pleased with last week’s packed house at the Fox Theatre for the premiere screening of his upcoming Cartoon Network ‘toon “Class of 3000.” We remarked that some parents are probably still thanking him for handing out harmonicas to the small fry in attendance. Dre slid us a smile and replied, “There was a reason we gave them out as the kids were leaving.”
The preview audience enthusiastically applauded at the conclusion of the razor-sharp “Scissors” (co-stars Annette Bening and Jill Clayburgh should just go ahead and begin shopping for Oscar night frocks), but Burroughs proved a dicier character in person.
The memoirist, who wrote “Dry” as a follow-up to “Scissors,” told the audience that he is now planning a “third memoir to close out the trilogy,” based on his deceased father, who recently died of cirrhosis of the liver.
“It’s going to be my dead daddy book,” he told the audience. “I wanted to find out, ‘Is he the person I think he is?’ ” Burroughs then happily disclosed that while he hasn’t actually begun writing the tome, it’s already been optioned for a film.
The statement caused a crestfallen Burroughs reader sitting next to us to whisper, “I think I just lost a hero.”
“Running With Scissors” officially opens here Friday.
A ‘Dining’ preview
Guess who’s coming to dinner? New York DJ Lady Bunny and a sold-out crowd for Elle Decor’s Dining by Design, a $350-a-plate dinner tonight at the Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery.
The annual fund-raiser for the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS always features a banquet of fantasy tabletops created by local designers that mere mortals would be hard-pressed to duplicate at home. This year’s lineup doesn’t disappoint, even if many of the sponsors were still installing their creations when spectators started streaming in Wednesday for the first viewing.
While all the tables were head-turners, one of the standouts was the setting Michael Knight, of “Project Runway” fame, designed for Macy’s. The Atlanta designer created a breakfast-in-bed theme using merchandise from the retail chain’s Hotel Collection in nontraditional ways. Who else would think of covering chairs in white bathrobes or using toothbrush accessories to hold napkins or, in this case, face towels? The table linens were comforters, and the place mats were really pillow shams. All this from a man who rarely sets a fancy table in his own home.
“I don’t even use it,” Knight says. “I’m an in-front-of-the-TV-with-dinner type guy.”
The lavish displays will be open for public sneak peeks today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Mason Murer, 199 Armour Drive N.E. Admission: $10.
Oprah salutes Madonna
On Wednesday’s edition of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Madonna said the 13-month-old boy she plans to adopt from the African country of Malawi is healthy and thriving in her London home.
The child, David Banda, was taken to London last week after Malawi’s High Court granted Madonna and her husband, director Guy Ritchie, an interim adoption order.
The Material Mom said David was healthy, despite having overcome malaria and tuberculosis. The interview was taped Tuesday via satellite from London.
“David is amazing,” the 48-year-old pop star said. “What really surprises me is how great my children are with him and how he’s transitioned so easily from living in Africa in an orphanage to living in our house.”
In an interview posted Tuesday on Time magazine’s Web site, David’s father, Yohane Banda, said he will not contest the adoption.
“I don’t want my child, who is already gone, to come back,” he said. “I will be killing his future if I accept that.”
Winfrey said,”I have to say, Madonna, that’s a brave thing that you did. This audience, I know, applauds you for it.”
Madonna has two other children — daughter Lourdes, 9, and son Rocco, 6.
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Shelley Morrison (“Will & Grace”) is 70. “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak is 60. Guitarist Keith Strickland of the B-52’s is 53. Country singer Keith Urban is 39. Actor Jon Heder (“Napoleon Dynamite”) is 29.
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