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Hamburger craving serves select few well
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Each of the two times that Sgt. Bonnie Middlebrooks was deployed to Iraq, she took a sackful of her favorite cheeseburgers.
She did, however, eat them before she reached the combat zone.
The Snellville resident’s loyalty has earned her a sort of fast-food immortality. In a twist on the old picture-on-the-Wheaties-box cereal promotion, Middlebrooks’ picture and a quote — “I pack a sackful every time I redeploy to Iraq, and when I return on leave, I head straight to Krystal” — will soon appear on millions of Krystal burger boxes to be sold at the chain’s restaurants in 12 states.
Middlebrooks, who works as an accounting manager, is one of three metro Atlantans inducted Tuesday into what the chain calls its Krystal Lovers Hall of Fame. The others are DaShundra Waldon of Douglasville, who claims to have a regular afternoon craving of 20 years she calls her “chili cheese pup alarm”; and Jeff Carlisi of Atlanta, former lead guitarist of the rock band .38 Special, who routinely counts on forays to Krystal to help him make it through late-night recording sessions.
While in Iraq, Middlebrooks said her duties included mostly budgeting and finance assignments.
“When we were over there, all we wanted was fast food,” Middlebrooks said.
Middlebrooks is officially a civilian again, though there’s a chance the Army might recall her to duty. All things considered, she said, she’d just as soon stay near her family and her cheeseburgers.
FOXWORTHY’S RIDE
You don’t need to be smarter than a fifth-grader to see the marketing logic of inviting Alpharetta comic Jeff Foxworthy to serve as the grand marshal April 29 of the Aaron’s 499 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Foxworthy’s new hit reality series is broadcast on Fox. Perhaps, not coincidentally, the race will also be broadcast at 1:30 p.m. on Fox. Said speedway vice president Rick Humphrey via a statement sent to Buzz Central: “We are excited to have someone as entertaining as Jeff participating in our pre-race festivities and feel certain our fans will love him.”
Really? The guy who immortalized the phrase “You might be a redneck if …” might fit in at a NASCAR race? (We’re personally adopting a wait-and-see attitude.)
OVERSCENE
Pocket-size funny boy/ “Robot Chicken” co-creator Seth Green, “The Sarah Silverman Program” co-star/Adult Swim “Moral Orel” voice artist Jay Johnston, “Space Ghost” portrayer George Lowe and singer/guitarist Blaine Cartwright attending Monday night’s premiere of “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters” at the Plaza Theatre on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The Cartoon Network feature-length toon debuts in theaters Friday.
NEW TO WRITERS HALL
The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame has an impressive list of 2006 inductees. Late “Lamb in His Bosom” novelist Caroline Miller, the first Georgian to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction; physician/novelist Ferrol Sams; “Peachtree Road” novelist Anne Rivers Siddons; poet John Henry Stone; and the late Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter/columnist Celestine Sibley will be honorees at an induction ceremony Thursday at the University of Georgia Student Learning Center.
Celebrity birthdays
Actor Joel Grey is 75. Actress Louise Lasser is 68. Country singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale is 50. Singer Joss Stone is 20.
COUPLING
“Scrubs” star John C. McGinley is a newlywed. McGinley, 47, married yoga instructor Nichole Kessler, 34, Saturday in Malibu, Calif., publicist Nancy Iannios told The Associated Press.
He proposed last August, Iannios said. He has a son, Max, 9, from a previous marriage.
McGinley plays the acid-tongued Dr. Perry Cox on the loopy NBC hospital sitcom.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Now I bypass anything involving the upsetting parts of ‘American Idol,’ most of which involve Ryan Seacrest, who makes me squirm, something about his malleable equanimity suggesting a propaganda minister whose talents, in a different world, could be pointed toward bad instead of good.” — Los Angeles Times TV critic Paul Brownfield, on why he TiVos through chunks of the Fox reality show featuring the Dunwoody High School grad.
Contributing: Bill Osinski and news services
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