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TLC’s Chilli to return with solo album
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
More than four years after Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes’ untimely death, TLC founding member Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas is making plans for a solo debut.
Billboard reports that the TLC singer has inked with Akon’s Konvict Muzik label, which is readying her as-yet-untitled solo debut for mid-2007. The album will be distributed by Interscope.
“This will be totally opposite from when she was with the multiplatinum group,” Atlanta-based Akon told Billboard. “She’s an incredible artist, and I want people to reconnect with her.” Akon is working on the album with Thomas, along with production assistance from the likes of Missy Elliott, Black Eyed Peas member Will I Am and Timbaland.
On Tuesday, it could not immediately be determined whether any part of the project would be recorded here, where TLC was birthed in the last millennium. Thomas has kept an extremely low profile since the release of TLC’s final album, “3D,” after Lopes’ death in 2002.
Stuck in the middle — with Wendy’s
Granted, Wednesday will likely be a pretty miserable day at Hartsfield-Jackson. The fine folks at Wendy’s, however, are setting up shop at their large location inside the airport atrium to reward the fliers who draw the least enjoyable seats on any flight — the dreaded middle seat.
If you show the fast-food folks your boarding pass indicating your unfortunate seat designation, they’ll give you one of approximately 10,000 gift cards for the chain’s new Double Melt burger (apparently, cheese and jalapeño peppers are hidden in the midsection of the new menu item).
On Friday, we’ll be awaiting the statistics on exactly how many folks on either side of the lucky winners will be inconvenienced when they attempt to hurtle past them to, um, freshen up in the in-flight restroom.
Last call for ‘Thanks’
Today is your final chance to slide us your thoughtful, funny and original contribution for our annual reader-driven “What I’m Thankful For” Turkey Day Buzz column. E-mail us your entry with your full name, where you live and a daytime phone number. Also, if you’d like, send along a head shot of yourself in the e-mail — we’ll have a bit of room to run some reader photos this year as well. Send your info to buzz@ajc.com with “Giving Thanks” in the subject line.
‘The View’ to a feud
“View” co-host Rosie O’Donnell managed to insert herself into the Kelly Ripa-Clay Aiken tiff on Tuesday when she played excerpts from Aiken’s guest stint Friday on “Live With Regis and Kelly” with Ripa. During an interview with “Dancing With the Stars” champ Emmitt Smith, the “American Idol” finalist, apparently frustrated with Ripa dominating the chat, put his hand over her mouth live on the air. Ripa ripped Aiken, telling him: “That’s a no-no. Besides, I don’t know where that hand’s been.”
On Tuesday, O’Donnell replayed the clip and then accused Ripa of being homophobic. Seconds later, Ripa was live on the air via phone to defend herself. “What you said is downright outrageous,” Ripa told O’Donnell. “He reached across and covered my face with his hand. I have three kids. It’s cold and flu season. That’s all I meant … Rosie, you have to be more responsible. To imply that I’m homophobic is outrageous.”
We temporarily interrupt this incredibly juicy catfight to interject the following piece of logic: Clay Aiken has not actually publicly identified himself as a homosexual …
Damage control?
“The Late Show With David Letterman” studio audience didn’t quite know how to react when former “Seinfeld” actor Michael Richards appeared via satellite at Monday night’s taping to apologize for his behavior onstage Friday night at a Los Angeles comedy club. He attempted to apologize for calling two black hecklers by the “n-word.” And then he proceeded to dig himself a fresh hole by referring to the parties as “Afro-Americans.”
At deadline Tuesday, Buzz was still trying to determine when Richards perfected time travel and when exactly he had returned from 1952.
Meanwhile, veteran publicist Michael Levine, whose clients have included comedians George Carlin and Sam Kinison, says he thinks the comic’s career is toast.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” Levine said. “I think it’s a career ruiner for him. … It’s going to be a long road back for him, if at all.”
Overscene
It would appear that Kevin Federline scored Atlanta party promoter Scooter Braun in his upcoming divorce from Britney Spears. Braun phoned ahead Saturday night to book a reservation for the fledgling rapper and a group of 12 at Ten Degrees South in Buckhead. We’re told that the “Dance With a Pimp” performer and company dined on chicken curry, rack of lamb and calamari and sipped beers and vodka tonics. The “hefty tab” (around $1,000) was only partially picked up by the Ten Degrees South folks.
Celebrity birthdays
Comedian-director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) is 66. Guitarist-actor Little Steven (the E Street Band, “The Sopranos”) is 56. Bassist Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads is 56. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 48. Actress Mariel Hemingway is 45. Actress Scarlett Johansson, above, (“Lost in Translation”) is 22.
Contributing: news services.
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