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Monday, November 27, 2006
Chef Seeger drops by Doty’s new place
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Seeger’s chef/owner Guenter Seeger, dressed in a black leather jacket and matching pants, with a red-haired female companion in a red velvet dress, was spied dining at the newly opened Shaun’s in Inman Park late Saturday night. Nearby, Atlanta Peach editor Elizabeth Schulte Roth was celebrating her birthday with her husband and parents. Q100’s Jeff and Jessica Dauler were also spotted in the crowded eatery dining with Midtown Twelve florist owner John McDonald and his partner.
Sick bay
Label this item the Chunder From Down Under: Peachtree Road resident Elton John left the stage briefly during a weekend concert in Brisbane after being struck by a bout of nausea.
John left the stage without a word about two hours into his Sunday concert. He was gone for about five minutes, the Australian Associated Press reported Monday.
When he returned, the 59-year-old pop star used an Australian colloquialism to explain that he had left the stage to vomit. “I thought I’d better chunder in the toilet [rather] than all over the front row,” he was quoted as saying.
Apparently feeling better, John closed the show about 45 minutes later.
‘Best and Brightest’ (but also on hold)
Those pesky advance deadlines for magazines caught Esquire up a little short this month. In the men’s mag’s “Best and Brightest” issue (featuring cover boy George Clooney), Atlantan Ryan Gravel is among those profiled. The urban renewal pioneer first came up with a plan for overhauling the city’s 22-mile Beltline railroad lines for a 1999 Georgia Tech graduate thesis. Esquire reports: “Five years of local support and city studies have turned Gravel’s beltline into one of the most ambitious modern ideas for the refurbishing of an American city on the verge of actually happening.” Alas, in recent weeks, pivotal Beltline developer Wayne Mason pulled out of the deal, and earlier this month, the Atlanta City Council voted to temporarily put the project on hold.
Celebrity birthdays
Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. is 77. Singer Randy Newman is 63. Musician Paul Shaffer (“Late Show With David Letterman”) is 57. Actor Ed Harris is 56. Actress S. Epatha Merkerson (“Law & Order”) is 54. Actor Judd Nelson is 47. “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart is 44. Actress Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon (“NYPD Blue,” “The Jamie Foxx Show”) is 40. Model Anna Nicole Smith is 39. Singer Dawn Robinson (En Vogue) is 38. Rapper Chamillionaire is 27.
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Pay it forward: Sweet success
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Things got so sticky sweet on Monday’s edition of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Buzz briefly contemplated adding our name to the national transplant database for a fresh pancreas.
Local sisters Kristy O’Conner and Kasey Osborne-Lumpp were back, along with about 300 other audience members, who all had attended a taping of the show last month in Chicago. During the first broadcast, Winfrey gave each audience member a $1,000 Bank of America gift card and requested that each go home and “pay it forward” to a local charity in one week.
For O’Conner, an Atlantan, and Osborne-Lumpp, a Grayson resident, that meant getting busy to raise funds for My Sister’s House, a shelter run by the Atlanta Union Mission.
On Monday’s show, during a taped segment with narration by Oprah herself, it was disclosed that the sisters, along with able assistance from Kroger shoppers, Q100 listeners and corporate checks from Home Depot, Target, Pottery Barn and IKEA, raised a whopping $200,000. The amount was described by “Oprah” producers as the “biggest payout by far.”
On the program, My Sister’s House worker LaQuesha Agnew said that the response has been “just overwhelming.” One generous individual even donated an 18-wheel tractor trailer full of items. Agnew says the shelter has had to go in search of additional storage space, a nice problem to have at this time of year.
The massive amounts of items will go to deserving mothers and the money raised will go to improve counseling services, according to Agnew.
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