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Friday, February 2, 2007
ASO’s designs on Rogers not just musical
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The guy who once graced the radio airwaves with “You Decorated My Life” will be performing similar duties at the 2007 Decorators’ Show House & Gardens fund-raiser for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Buzz learned Friday that country singer and interior designer Kenny Rogers will serve as the honorary chair at the 37th annual event hosted by the Atlanta Symphony Associates.
This year’s selected showplace is Whitehall, a massive white-columned Southern beauty, located at 4795 Harris Trail on the corner of Northside Drive.
And unlike a lot of honorary chairs, who have a tendency to take a powder at the actual fund-raiser, Rogers will roll up his sleeves and not only cut the ribbon at the posh April 26 opening night “Magnolias in the Moonlight” preview gala, but he’ll be decorating a room as well. According to event rep Alison King, Rogers and business partner/decorator Jim Weinberg, who co-own Kenji Design Studios, are undertaking the design work on the structure’s family/music room.
The event also will encompass the work of 29 other top Atlanta designers, who will transform the house into a high-end palace in time for ASO-benefiting tours scheduled for April 28 to May 20.
For more info: www.decoratorsshowhouse.org.
‘Love, Lies’ and ratings?
Sticking to the sofa tonight and looking for something sordid? We humbly suggest the “Love and Lies” edition of “48 Hours Mystery” on WGCL. You may recognize some of the characters profiled. CBS is touting that for the first time, a mystery woman who was part of the Barton Corbin saga will speak publicly on the show. You’ll recall that Corbin was the Dacula dentist who pleaded guilty last September to killing his wife, Jennifer Corbin, and his former girlfriend Dorothy “Dolly” Hearn. Authorities said Barton Corbin shot both women in the head, then staged the deaths as suicides. The story was covered by national media and will be the subject of an upcoming book by best-selling true-crime writer Ann Rule.
Reporters from “48 Hours Mystery” interviewed all the major players in the case, including Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter.
CBS News correspondent Peter Van Sant said his company also hired a private detective to help track down Anita Hearn (no relation to Dotty), thought to be a pivotal witness in the murder trial because of her alleged steamy Internet relationship with Jennifer Corbin. Dozens of sexually explicit e-mails show that Jennifer began the relationship with a person she believed was a man named “Christopher.” She later discovered that her online lover was Hearn, a woman.
Jennifer Corbin’s family say they agreed to be interviewed by CBS before they knew that Anita Hearn would be on the show.
The awkwardness begins at 10 p.m.
Shopper Bowl Sunday
If shopping is more interesting to you than the Super Bowl on Sunday, you’ll have an opportunity to engage in your favorite sport in the comfort of your home while the die-hard Colts or Bears fans watch the game. From noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, the online retailer edressme.com is having a “They Watch, You Shop” sale featuring 10-12 dress styles from such designers as Anna Sui, Laundry by Shelli Segal and BCBG. The special frocks will be on sale only during Super Bowl festivities — anywhere from 40 percent to 50 percent off the retail price, then immediately marked back up at 10 p.m. The early spring merchandise from six to eight designers will be available in sizes 2-12. And free shipping is part of the purchase price.
The founder of edressme.com, Joanne Stoner, thought up the idea based on comments from her friends. “We always would go to Super Bowl parties, but we were not into the game,” she said. “We would stand around and end up in the kitchen, eating salsa and chips or cleaning up. Since all of us like to shop together, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do a little online shopping.” And Stoner hinted that she might be adding more dress styles throughout the game.
Uncoupling
Former Alpharetta resident Whitney Houston is attempting to fast-track her divorce from Bobby Brown. Houston, who filed divorce papers in October, requested a default judgment in a document filed Dec. 28 in Orange County, Calif., Superior Court. A checked box on the two-page document indicates that there are “no issues of division of community property” in the divorce.
The document was obtained by the CelebTV.com Web site, which reported it this week. Houston, 43, has asked for custody of the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and that Brown, 37, be allowed visitation rights.
High five
Downloaded ring tones this week
1. Chris Brown Featuring Jay Biz, “Poppin’ “
2. Buckcherry, “Crazy [expletive]”
3. Koji Kondo, “Super Mario Brothers Theme”
4. Nickelback, “Rock Star”
5. Rascal Flatts, “What Hurts the Most”
— Billboard
Celebrity birthdays
Saturday: Comedian Joey Bishop is 89. Actress Blythe Danner is 64. Actor Nathan Lane is 51. Actress Maura Tierney (“ER”) is 42.
Sunday: Actor Conrad Bain (“Diff’rent Strokes”) is 84. Singer Alice Cooper is 59. Country singer Clint Black is 45. Singer Gavin DeGraw is 30.
Contributing: Marylin Johnson, Lateef Mungin and news services
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Summer fashion at Grady High
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You could see your breath outside Grady High School Thursday night but inside the gym, things were decidedly more summer-like.
With the help of the Grady High School Marching Knights and the school’s cheerteam and roller girls, Pecan Pie Couture designer Clint Zeagler unveiled his 2007 Summer fashion line.
And much of the elite Buckhead charitable fund-raising community came out to support the evening, a benefit for Grady’s talented Urban Couture student designers.
“No, I’m not telling you the last time I sat in bleachers,” attendee Aida Flamm playfully told Buzz. In a more serious tone, the glammed-up Flamm observed: “I really love this high school. It’s a gem in the city of Atlanta. I’ll support anything Grady does. I also thought it was great that [Zeagler] shared the spotlight tonight with the school’s fashion students. It wasn’t all about him and that was nice to see.” The filled gym clapped its approval for both the student designs and Zeagler’s reto-inspired, pastel-hued fun in the sun frocks.
The warm weather line — Zeagler calls it Marching Band Glam — was a perfect fit for the high school gym unveiling. Self-professed Midtown Ambassador of Mirth Baton Bob kicked off the evening by bursting through a football game-styled paper banner with “Pecan Pie Couture” painted across it. The Marching Knights performed a rousing rendition of Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al” as the student Urban Couture designers and models wearing their outfits took a final stroll across the basketball court to enthusiastic applause both from monied socialites and the designers’ Grady High peers.
“Project Runway” finalist Michael Knight was among those applauding in the bleachers.
Finally, a grinning Zeagler made his way down the make-shift runway to wave to the crowd.
At the fashion show’s after-party at Halo in Midtown, Zeagler told us: “The Grady High students were the total inspiration to have the launch there. I wanted an opportunity to showcase the work they do. Well, and to have fun.”
The show was dedicated to the budding fashion designer’s mother, Jan Treado Zeagler “and all Southern women who remind us what it means to be a lady.” Treado Zeagler drove in from Sylvania, Georgia in winter weather for the event. “Watching my son is always worth the drive,” she told us.
There was one minor catastrophe, however. When Zeagler presented the evening’s co-chairs Kevin Knaus and Carey Carter with complimentary boxed homemade pecan pies, Carter immediately slung his up under his arm.
“I thought it was a T-shirt,” Carter confided. “Now I have some lovely pecan pie pudding!”
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V-103 promotion draws some Asian-American fire
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A small contingent of Asian-Americans protested a V-103 promotion Wednesday night at Midtown’s Shout restaurant, where the radio station held a contest in which it gave away a trip to Hong Kong and China for the best Asian-themed costume.
Gabe Tungol, a 22-year-old Filipino-American and a graduate of Bates College in Maine, said the promotion for a station whose audience is largely African-American revealed cultural “misappropriation.” In an e-mail to the AJC, he wrote, “The premise is based on a perpetuation of misinformed, denigratory racial stereotypes, and harks back to an era in which yellowface was considered culturally appropriate.”
Tungol, who came with four other Asian-Americans, signed in as a contestant and went up onstage, where he told about his objections. He said he was offended that some people were in white powder and slanty eyes, shuffling their feet and pointing and giggling like geisha girls. When someone said this was merely “theatrical,” he compared it with blackface in the early 20th century. The crowd was mostly polite, and a few applauded when they finished.
Rick Caffey, general manager, told Buzz on Thursday that the contest probably wasn’t the most thoughtful. “We’ve learned a lesson,” he said. “We bill ourselves as the people’s station, and we are for all people. My apologies to anyone who had been offended. That wasn’t our intent.”
Morning show co-hosts Frank Ski and Wanda Smith, who hold annual trips all over the world, are taking 200 radio listeners to Hong Kong and China this month, partly to expand cultural awareness.
Summer style warms Grady design benefit
You could see your breath outside Grady High School Thursday night but inside the gym, things were decidedly more summer-like.
With the help of the Grady Marching Knights and the school’s cheerteam and roller girls, Pecan Pie Couture designer Clint Zeagler unveiled his 2007 Summer line.
And much of the elite Buckhead charitable fund-raising community came out to support the evening, a benefit for Grady’s talented Urban Couture student designers.
“No, I’m not telling you the last time I sat in bleachers,” attendee Aida Flamm playfully told Buzz.
The filled gym clapped its approval for both the student designs and Zeagler’s retro-inspired, pastel-hued fun in the sun frocks.
There was one minor catastrophe, however. When Zeagler presented the evening’s co-chairs Kevin Knaus and Carey Carter with complimentary boxed homemade pies, Carter slung his up under his arm.
“I thought it was a T-shirt,” Carter confided. “Now I have some lovely pecan pie pudding!”
Quote of the day
“I bought them their first pair of diamond earrings. Tiny Tiffany diamonds for baby girls.”
New father and Atlanta restaurateur Sean “Diddy” Combs on the recent birth of his twin daughters, Jessie James and D’Lila Star, with girlfriend Kim Porter in People magazine, out today.
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Elaine Stritch is 82. Comedian Tom Smothers is 70. Singer Graham Nash is 65. Actress Farrah Fawcett is 60. Model Christie Brinkley is 53. Singer Shakira is 30.
Contributing: Rodney Ho and news services.
If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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