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Timberlake in sync with low-key lunch
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Normally, performers who gig at Philips Arena and book Pink as their opening act don’t stroll into the Flying Biscuit Cafe in Midtown for lunch. That’s the primary reason we might now discreetly download a Justin Timberlake album.
Before his concert in town Tuesday, the pop star and YouTube “[Junk] in a Box” video sensation shocked noontime patrons when he casually turned up at the, um, intimate eatery.
He ordered the Flying Biscuit Breakfast with eggs over easy, “creamy dreamy” grits, chicken sage sausage, large orange juice, coffee and the restaurant’s trademark baked good.
Timberlake arrived wearing a green tracksuit, bluejeans, white sneakers and black sunglasses, which he promptly removed once inside.
“Yeah, there’s no place to hide when you come here,” Biscuit assistant manager Allie Rader told us, referring to the restaurant’s size. “He was just very sweet.”
“When you come in, you’re just seated regularly, along with everyone else,” Biscuit founder Delia Champion told Buzz on Tuesday. “We like to say that nothing is special and everything is special at the Biscuit.”
Still, the eatery’s wait staff is trained not to call attention to the famous, gossip about them with other patrons or request autographs.
Said Champion: “He got in and out without a lot of commotion and not a lot of hoopla.”
Taking Timberlake’s lead, we reluctantly trimmed back the Buzz Central entourage Tuesday. (Well, except for the guy who graciously starts our car each morning… .)
‘Basic’ arithmetic
Thanks to celebrity auctioneer Sharon Stone, the Elton John AIDS Foundation doubled its take on a hotly contested auction item over the weekend.
The “Basic Instinct” actress and FOE (Friend of Elton) served as the celebrity auctioneer when a pair of tickets to the pop star-philanthropist’s ultra-private 60th birthday party in New York City were raffled off at his annual Oscar Party benefit Sunday in Los Angeles.
The package also includes a hotel stay and tickets to his long sold-out 60th birthday concert March 25 at Madison Square Garden.
When Stone noticed two fans in a bidding war as the package neared $220,000, she leaned over, whispered to Sir Elton and promptly got permission to sell another pair of tickets if each party agreed to part with $250,000 apiece.
Total take: $500,000.
Thankfully, there’s a cheaper way to catch the milestone concert. On Tuesday, MyNetworkTV (its Atlanta affiliate is WATL) announced that it has obtained the U.S. broadcast rights to the two-hour concert that will be taped. It will air April 5 on MyNetworkTV affiliates.
In the Elton gift bag
OK, so what exactly was in those weighty 25-pound gift swag bags that guests received as they departed Sir Elton’s Oscar party early Monday morning?
Possibly the coolest contraption was the iKaraoke machine, outfitted for iPods so you can perform vocals to accompany your iPod library. Also, an assortment of Elton candles and Elton Rocks potpourri and a “scentport” by Slatkin Candles, CO Bigelow body lotions and potions, Patricia Wexler skin care products, MAC cosmetics, a Chopard pen and miniature toy Audis, presumably for those too young to drive the real thing.
Shamrock’s green
Atlanta, home to the likes of OutKast, Ludacris and Lil Jon, now has a possible white rap star in its midst: Shamrock (nee Timothy Rasmussen) took home $100,000 as the winner of VH1’s “Ego Trip’s (White) Rapper Show” Monday night, beating Los Angeles resident and self-proclaimed “King of the Burbs” John Brown.
Dropping references to the ATL during the final faceoff taped last summer at a club in Harlem, N.Y., Shamrock impressed the judges with his rapping skills and driven personality. “The competition was very intense,” he told Buzz. “Hopefully, this can begin a very successful career for me.”
A lot of Spam
We did attempt to refrain from laughing Tuesday while chatting with Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant general manager Chris Ernest about the eatery’s newest menu item.
That didn’t actually work out all that well.
“That response has been fairly common,” Ernest told us earnestly, of the restaurant’s grilled Spam sandwich, a tongue-in-cheek special tied to the run of the Tony Award-winning musical “Spamalot” down the street at the Fox Theatre. “Most people get the humor connected with it,” Ernest explained. Still, the blackened sandwich served on a bun with mixed greens and a sweet chili sauce along with garlic fries is selling.
Reported Ernest: “We sold five on Sunday.”
However, the Savoy Bar & Grill inside the Georgian Terrace across the street from the Fox remains perhaps the most committed to culinary creativity concerning the much-maligned canned meat.
The eatery is offering a different daily lunch and dinner entree special made from Spam during the show’s run through Sunday. For example, today’s $15 dinner special is Spam Stroganoff.
When we informed Ernest of his competition, he replied: “Wow, I thought I was going out on a limb. That’s dedication.”
Celebrity birthdays
Actor Charles Durning is 84. Actor Gavin MacLeod (“The Love Boat,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”) is 76. Actress Kelly Bishop (“Gilmore Girls”) is 63. Actress Bernadette Peters is 59. Singer Cindy Wilson of the B-52’s is 50. Singer Pat Monahan of Train is 38.
Quote of the day
“I have a deep sense of shame for the things I’ve done. I felt very remorseful for having thrown the phone at someone that didn’t deserve it.”
— Supermodel Naomi Campbell on last year’s temporary ambition to embed a jewel-encrusted BlackBerry into the brain of an employee, to “Extra” on Tuesday.
Contributing: Rodney Ho and news services.
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