New url for Peach Buzz
Bookmark this new url for Peach Buzz.. We have moved to Wordpress!
Access Atlanta > Blog > Archives > 2007 > January > 06
Saturday, January 6, 2007
This ‘L’ word briefly stands for lonely
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Q100’s Melissa Carter found herself stalling on stage for what seemed like an eternity Thursday night inside a packed Wetbar in Midtown after the stars of “The L Word” temporarily abandoned her.
Actress Daniela Sea, who plays Max on the soapy lesbian-centered Showtime series, and actor Dallas Roberts, who portrays Angus on the show, were busy outside the club greeting the hundred or so fans who were turned away in the evening drizzle.
The capacity viewing party to promote Sunday’s fourth season premiere of the series was every bit the mob scene that the gathering has been in past years.
When Carter arrived at 5:45 p.m. for the scheduled 7 p.m. event, the line was already wrapped around the building.
“I finally had to go out and get the actors while I was on the microphone,” Carter recounted. “I was bombing up there. I was actually telling Christmas jokes. It was pathetic.”
In addition to being a co-host of the nationally syndicated show “Radio With a Twist,” Carter also served as a consultant on the show’s accompanying new soundtrack, “L Tunes: Music From and Inspired by ‘The L Word.’”
“Since I’m the only lesbian on [“Radio With a Twist”], they asked if I would help out,” Carter explained. The DJ encouraged producers to include songs by Pink, Kelis, Da Brat, Tori Amos and Nina Simone for the project.
“I tried to emphasis that lesbians are women first and that gay people are extremely diverse within themselves. And while we love them, we don’t just listen to K.D. Lang, Melissa Etheridge and the Indigo Girls.”
Where there’s a will, a wife?
Is she or isn’t she? Maybe only a probate judge can say for sure.
As the deliciously theatrical battle continues over whether Tomi Rae Hynie was really married to the late Godfather of Soul James Brown, a lawyer for Hynie said that the debate may be over in three weeks, when Brown’s will is due to be probated.
“If James Brown left a will and left her what he should have left her, there won’t be any litigation,” said Robert Rosen, a Charleston, S.C., attorney who helped Hynie procure an annulment from her first marriage to Javed Ahmed.
Hynie married Brown in 2001, while she was still married to Ahmed, Brown’s lawyers have said. Hynie does not dispute that.
But she does argue that her marriage to Brown was still legal, because the marriage to Ahmed was later annulled.
Brown paid for the legal fees for that annulment, Rosen said.
But Brown did not have a second wedding ceremony with Hynie, and that’s the heart of the issue.
South Carolina case law suggests that a second ceremony between Hynie and Brown needed to occur to legalize their marriage, said John McDougall, a family law expert in Columbia, S.C.
Meanwhile, Deanna Brown Thomas, one of Brown’s daughters, refused on “Larry King Live” Thursday night to argue with claims that she and her siblings were unkind to Hynie during memorial services for Brown.
“I don’t have any comments to that,” said Thomas, a disc jockey at an Augusta radio station. “I’m here to talk about the great man my dad was.”
Hannity’s new Sunday show
“Fill me in. I have not heard about this.” Buzz assumes Elisabeth Hasselbeck is joking when she says that about the Donald Trump/Rosie O’Donnell feud in an interview to appear on Sunday’s premiere of “Hannity’s America” at 9 p.m. on Fox News Channel. Hannity, the top-rated TV/radio host and best-selling author who once worked on Atlanta radio, says “America” is “just the opposite of a Sunday show.” He’ll do interviews, take to the streets to talk to “average Americans” and have “a liberal segment built in. We call it the ‘Hannity Hot Seat.’ ” (We assume that’s where Sunday’s other guest, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, comes in.)
“The View” co-host Hasselbeck discusses being conservative, Star Jones Reynolds and, oh yes, Donald v. O’Donnell, which began eons ago with a controversy over Miss USA’s carousing lifestyle.
“I think probably everyone is going to be bored of it in about a week,” Hasselbeck says in an advance transcript provided by Fox News. “It’s funny because I kind of feel the issue should more surround Miss USA. I feel as though she was, yes, given a second chance and now I am hearing she is contemplating doing Playboy if it’s done in a tasteful way. I mean, if that’s what you do with a second chance. That’s where I have an issue.”
Houston’s N.J. home saved
Thing are looking up for Whitney Houston. The foreclosure sale on the former Alpharetta resident’s Mendham Township, N.J., home originally set for this week, has been canceled after she settled some $1 million in outstanding mortgage payments.
Morris County Sheriff’s Lt. Steve Ackerman says Houston reached an agreement with Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, which had filed a civil suit in June.
Houston also has paid $83,000 in back taxes on the 10-acre Mendham estate, according to the township clerk, Penny Newell.
Auction item of the day
As we continue the occupational hazard of flipping through the catalog to preview items in Tuesday’s New Jersey court-ordered public auction of Whitney Houston’s discarded finery, we proudly present:
Item No. 198: A Dolce & Gabbana sequined tiger-print skirt. Given its length, this could easily be converted into either a tube top or a headband.
Overscene
Actor Richard Thomas , his wife, Georgiana, and son Montana James, 10, dining at Eno on Peachtree Street in Midtown before Thomas’ Thursday performance with George Wendt in “Twelve Angry Men” at the Fox Theatre. We’re told that Thomas enjoyed tuna carpaccio, while Georgiana had the shrimp Mozambique and Montana ordered the pear-and-cheese pizza. Afterward, the family perused the adjacent Barrelman wine and cheese shop. “Twelve Angry Men” closes Sunday.
Celebrity birthdays
Saturday: Director John Singleton is 39. “The Early Show” co-host Julie Chen is 37.
Sunday: Author William Peter Blatty (“The Exorcist”) is 79. “Rolling Stone” publisher Jann Wenner is 61. Actor David Caruso is 51. “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric is 50. Actor Nicolas Cage is 43.Country singer John Rich of Big and Rich is 33.
Contributing: Virginia Anderson, Jill Vejnoska and news services.
If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
Permalink | |
