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Valderrama gets his birthday rolling
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ten Pin Alley, Atlantic Station’s newest (and well, OK, only) upscale cocktail lounge/bowling emporium isn’t technically open yet.
However, if you’re one of the owners, you’re usually allowed to christen the joint with a private bash.
That’s how “That ’70s Show” actor and co-owner Wilmer Valderrama celebrated his 27th birthday Monday night with a few close friends.
The evening began at Dolce, the Italian eatery Valderrama co-owns with celebrity friends like Ashton Kutcher and “Big Brother” reality TV contestant Mike “Boogie” Malin. The “Big Brother All Stars” winner played host to the host of MTV’s “Yo Momma,” as Valderrama and pals dined on appetizers of burrata cheese, grilled tomatoes and prosciutto, and tuna tartare with fresh avocado chili sauce and won-ton crisps.
Later, as the party made its way to Ten Pin Alley, Dolce chefs dashed over with Valderrama’s faves from the bowling nightspot’s menu, including truffled macaroni cheese balls with white cheddar sauce, zucchini fries with goat cheese tomato fondue, Kobe beef and barbecue pork sliders, and barbecue duck with grilled pineapple sauce.
Afterward, the “Fast Food Nation” actor and pals toasted the occasion with magnums of Cristal champagne. And in case you were wondering, a magnum of Cristal retails for around $500 a bottle.
On Tuesday, there was no immediate word on Valderrama’s cholesterol count.
Ten Pin Alley is due to open to the public this week.
Personalizing the ‘Titanic’ experience
As crowds turn up to “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” during its multimonth run at the former SciTrek site in Midtown, each attendee is handed a White Star Line boarding pass to the doomed luxury liner. In an effective example of interactivity, each pass contains a biography of an actual Titanic passenger. It’s not until the end of the exhibition when “passengers” learn via a list on the wall whether they lived or perished in the icy Atlantic.
“It’s incredibly effective way of making visitors a part of the experience, and it’s fascinating to watch people, especially young kids, scan that wall at the end of the exhibition,” the exhibit’s Atlanta rep Jonathan Barnes told Buzz on Tuesday. We’ll admit to having a few anxious moments the other afternoon as we clutched our boarding pass at the end of the display. For the record, our passenger, Masabumi Hosono, 42, the only Japanese businessman on board for Titanic’s maiden and final voyage, survived.
Celebrity docket
“Simple Life” simpleton Paris Hilton has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to shut down a Web site that displays personal photos, videos, diaries and other belongings once kept at a storage facility.
The unintentionally hilarious Web site was launched last week, claiming the items were auctioned after Hilton neglected to pay a $208 bill at a Los Angeles-area storage facility. It also promises visitors who pay a fee of $39.97 access to Hilton’s passport, medical records and other legal documents. In the name of research, Buzz on Tuesday forced ourselves to examine photos of a bare-breasted Hilton engaged in hot girl-on-girl action with unidentified females and a snapshot of a portly bare-chested gentleman who reportedly has a kilo of an illegal substance lined up on his torso.
Hilton said a moving company was supposed to pay the storage fees and was “shocked and surprised” to learn her belongings were sold at a public auction.
The lawsuit alleges defendants Nabil and Nabila Haniss paid $2,775 for the contents of the storage unit and later sold the items for $10 million to entrepreneur Bardia Persa, who created the naughty Web site ParisExposed.com.
Hilton’s publicist, Elliot Mintz, said that she would like the site shut down and “would like all of these items returned to her.” It wasn’t immediately clear if this somehow explains Hilton’s absence of undergarments in recent months.
Lloyd Webber to get ‘Grease’-y
In what we’re surmising is a stab at casting classiness, “Cats” composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will slum as a guest judge on the Feb. 11 edition of the reality TV exercise “Grease: You’re the One That I Want,” NBC announced Tuesday.
The composer, whose inexplicably successful Broadway hits include “Evita” and “Phantom of the Opera,” will weigh in on the remaining 12 finalists, who are competing to play Danny the slick greaser and Sandy the naive good girl (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in the classic 1978 movie version) in the revival of “Grease” coming to Broadway this summer.
The hopefuls — split evenly between guys and girls — will perform songs from Broadway musicals, including (begin massaging your temples now) Lloyd Webber’s shows, in the two-hour episode beginning at 7 p.m.
ON MY iPOD
Poet/author Nikki Giovanni, who signs her latest book, “Acolytes,” at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Ansley Mall Chapter 11: “Kathleen Battle, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane, [Thelonius] Monk. It stays on shuffle. Oh, and SOS [Band] and the Gap Band. And I need to put Diana Ross on there. I need ‘Love Hangover.’ [giggling] See, I am old-school.”
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Carol Channing is 86. Author Norman Mailer is 84. Actress Suzanne Pleshette is 70. Singer Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band is 56. Singer Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols is 51. Actor Anthony LaPaglia (“Without a Trace”) is 48. Actress Minnie Driver is 37. Actress Portia de Rossi (“Arrested Development,” “Ally McBeal”) is 34. Actress Kerry Washington (“Ray”) is 30. Singer Justin Timberlake is 26.
Contributing: Lamar Wilson and news services.
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