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Setting the stage for controversy?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The folks at 7 Stages Theatre in Little Five Points were contemplating security measures Wednesday as word spread about the venue’s guest speaker this weekend prior to a performance of Howard Zinn’s play “Marx in Soho.”
In conjunction with a visit to the city, organizers at the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition and the Atlanta International Action Center are bringing anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to 7 Stages prior to Saturday night’s performance of the play that envisions Karl Marx “returning to Soho in New York City to clear his name.” Portions of the proceeds from the theater’s Friday and Saturday performances of “Soho” will go to the organizations, associate artistic director Melissa Foulger said.
Foulger told Buzz that the theater is “working on safety provisions” regarding Sheehan’s visit, given her status as a lightning rod for the Iraq war. Still, Buzz can’t help but fantasize about the potentially entertaining tussles that could occur outside the theater between Sheehan haters and the neighborhood’s trademark tatted-up counterculture residents.
ATLANTANS RETURN FOR ‘POP CULTURE’ 2
A year ago, an Atlanta trio pocketed $250,000 for having plenty of useless knowledge in the first VH1 “World Series of Pop Culture.”
The team called El Chupacabra will be back for more this season in an episode set to air tonight and taped this past spring in New York. Mason Spencer and Jodi Roth both used last year’s winnings to pay off debt while Alexandra Burris, now pregnant with twins, bought a new Honda Pilot.
With 15 other teams competing, “We knew going in that everybody would be gunning for us,” Roth told Buzz. But they had a fun time, commandeering a nearby karaoke bar in Manhattan a couple of nights in classic dork-like fashion.
VH1 sent Buzz the episode featuring El Chupacabra’s first-round appearance. We won’t spoil the results, but if you want to impress your friends, bone up on these topics: “Saturday Night Live” skits, “Weird Al” Yankovic parodies, actor names from “The Breakfast Club” and “Ocean’s Eleven,” Kevin Bacon flicks and most important, “Rocky” opponents.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actor-comedian Bill Cosby is 70. Singer Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac is 64. Fitness guru Richard Simmons is 59. Actress Cheryl Ladd is 56. Gospel singer Sandi Patty is 51. Actor Topher Grace (“That ’70s Show”) is 29. Actress Michelle Rodriguez (“Lost”) is 29.
SICK BAY UPDATE
Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti is “fighting like a lion” against his pancreatic cancer and is reacting well to radiotherapy, his wife told an Italian newspaper.
“I can now say he is doing well,” Nicoletta Mantovani said in an interview published Wednesday in the Italian daily La Stampa.
The 71-year-old singer underwent surgery after doctors discovered a malignant pancreatic mass last year.
Contributing: Rodney Ho and news services.
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