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Chappelle to do 3 nights at Tabernacle
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Comedy Central “Chappelle’s Show” creator Dave Chappelle has just booked a three-night stint at The Tabernacle in Atlanta Aug. 23 through Aug. 25 at the downtown venue.
Tickets to the controversial, always topical comic’s shows here go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Reserved seating is $55 per ticket. Interestingly, Live Nation reps tell us that “all ages are welcome” at the event.
However, you may want to schedule extra time to attend a disciplinary meeting at your child’s school after your offspring inevitably tries out Chappelle’s material in the school cafeteria…
Joiner: Working with Sedgwick’s ‘tremendous’
People have been staring and pointing at actor and model Rusty Joiner at the gym this week as the former Snellville resident does his crunches in Los Angeles.
On this week’s episode of the TNT drama, “The Closer,” the Shiloh High School grad took a cattle prod to basic cable’s most beloved cop. Oh, and then Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson’s portrayer, actress Kyra Sedgwick, pumped Joiner’s serial killer character full of hot lead during the episode’s shocking climax.
“It was cool because it was such a departure for the show,” Joiner, 34, told Buzz Wednesday. “She didn’t get a confession and I turned out to be her first kill on the show.”
Of working with Sedgwick, Joiner said: “She was just tremendous. She wanted it as real and as physical as possible. When I pushed her, she really went flying across the room.”
Joiner says the scene got so physical that producers actually trimmed part of what was shot.
“We shot a sequence where my character spits in her face as she’s trying to get me to confess while I’m bleeding to death,” Joiner spills. “Kyra told me, ‘No, really do it.’ I actually had to spit in Kyra Sedgwick’s face. That was crazy. I guess they decided it got a little too graphic.”
His family in Conyers, older brother Michael Joiner, along with Cindy and Jack Ohlin, his mom and little brother, were all tuned in.
“My mom told me, ‘You scared me. For a minute I forgot you were my son.’ ”
Joiner also is featured in two high-profile TV commercials at the moment: He’s co-starring in those sexy “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”-esque Suzuki spots and is the bare-chested runner who jogs through a lake in that omnipresent Excedrin commercial.
“Oh, man, a pharmaceutical spot like that is a dream commercial,” Joiner explains. “It runs during ‘Oprah,’ ‘Dr. Phil’ and all over primetime.”
Still, the March shoot had its downside.
Joiner reports that the lake was approximately 35 degrees during his 50 runs through the water. “At one point, they asked, ‘Hey Rusty, could you stay under for about 15 seconds so we can shoot a flat surface on the lake?’ They had a paramedic and a hot tub there for me. It’s the coldest I’ve ever been in my entire life. I learned the value of unions that day!”
Sunday Special: Flaming Falcon
When the Atlanta Falcons prepare to kick off at the Metrodome against Minnesota on Sept. 9, Larry “Vito” Preston will be busy preparing a bonfire outside Vito Goldberg’s N.Y. Pizzeria in Marietta. While embattled Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has yet to inspire much more than fiery talk radio rhetoric, Preston says the federal dogfighting indictment against the player inspired him to torch a pile of Vick-related memorabilia.
“So far, our customers have donated a Vick jersey, a pair of sneakers, a cap and a bumper sticker,” Preston told Buzz on Wednesday. “We’re just reacting to the public sentiment out there. People are angry and upset.”
During the game’s first half, the memorabilia will be spread out in the pizzeria’s parking lot so leashed canine customers can heed nature’s call on the merch. Donations also will be taken up for local humane societies and animal shelters, according to Preston. At halftime, everything will be piled up and set on fire.
Predicts Preston: “I’m not sure how thrilled the neighbors will be but it’s all in fun.”
Overscene
“Simple Life” reality TV star Nicole Richie was spotted leaning up against a wall at the Gwinnett Arena taking in Good Charlotte’s set Tuesday night before the Justin Timberlake concert. Richie’s boyfriend/baby daddy, Good Charlotte vocalist Joel Madden, is one of the twin brothers in the pop punk act.
Celebrity birthdays
Comedian-director David Steinberg is 65. Actor Sam Elliott is 63. Atlanta actress Amanda Bearse (“Married…With Children”) is 49. Rapper Kurtis Blow is 48. Singer Whitney Houston (above) is 44. Actress Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”) is 39. Actor Eric Bana (“Munich,” “Troy”) is 39.
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