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Saturday, November 18, 2006
Move over, Madonna; make way for whale sharks
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When NBC broadcasts its controversial concert event “Madonna: The Confessions Tour — Live From London” Wednesday, viewers tuning into Atlanta affiliate WXIA-TV will see Ralph and Norton the whale sharks instead.
Thanksgiving marks the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Georgia Aquarium, and WXIA (the Aquarium’s official local television partner) will air back-to-back specials the night before about the giant fish tank. An encore presentation of “A Window to Wow” will lead things off at 8 p.m. Wednesday, followed by the all-new “A Year of Firsts” (broadcast in high definition) from 9 to 10 p.m.
Fortunately, Madonna — who, ironically enough, has a song named “Drowned World” on her playlist — hasn’t been put totally out to sea. MyAtlTV (the former WB affiliate here) will air her special from 8 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, pre-empting “Desire” and “Fashion House.”
The telecast won’t include the controversial scene where she warbles “Live to Tell” while suspended from a giant cross and wearing a crown of thorns. Madonna wanted it in, but NBC bowed to protests and removed the footage filmed during her performance at Wembley Stadium in London.
TomKat countdown
Bracciano, Italy, was busy Friday sprucing up its medieval facade with a touch of Hollywood flair on the eve of Tom Cruise’s wedding to Katie Holmes, naming restaurant menus after the actors’ most famous movies and filling shop windows with well-wishing messages. Road signs outside Bracciano warned drivers that the center of town would be closed to traffic today to free the area around the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle — the likely venue for the celebrity wedding.
Shaping up nicely
Peek into the storefront window, and you’ll see that Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom are generous patrons of the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The names of the two fictional characters from “The Producers” are engraved on a piece of smoked glass — a small mock-up of what will be a wall-size listing of real-life arts center donors and a nod to the center’s future, playing host to touring musicals, special events and the Atlanta Opera.
The center’s black-tie opening is almost a year away, but some of its details are ready for public inspection. Sort of.
In a storefront in the Galleria Specialty Shops mall, about a mile from the under-construction arts center, you can peer through the plate glass and marvel at the details. In addition to the look of the donors wall, there’s a 600-pound glass and flecked gold Italian chandelier, box seats finished in exotic wood from the rain forests of West Africa and part of an onyx-alabaster panel that will help illuminate the lobby.
High five
Kicks 101.5 top 5:
1. “Once in a Lifetime — Keith Urban
2. “You Save Me” — Kenny Chesney
3. “Before He Cheats” — Carrie Underwood
4. “My Little Girl” — Tim McGraw
5. “Some People Change” — Montgomery Gentry
— Radio & Records
Quote of the day
Judith Regan, publisher of O.J. Simpson’s “If I Did It”: “I made the decision to publish this book and to sit face to face with the killer, because I wanted him, and the men who broke my heart and your hearts, to tell the truth, to confess their sins, to do penance and to amend their lives.”
The book comes out Nov. 30. A two-part special is set to air on Fox on Nov. 27 and Nov. 29. Source: Associated Press
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Actress Linda Evans is 64. Actor Owen Wilson is 38. Actress Chloe Sevigny is 32. Rapper Fabolous is 27.
Sunday: CNN host Larry King is 73. Talk show host Dick Cavett is 70. Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner is 68. Fashion designer Calvin Klein is 64. Actress Meg Ryan is 45. Actress Jodie Foster is 44. Country singer Billy Currington is 33.
Contributing: Quindelda McElroy, Pierre Ruhe, Jill Vejnoska and news services.
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