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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Get ready for the Montreux headliners
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Plans for the city’s Labor Day weekend Montreux Jazz Festival were officially unveiled Tuesday. In addition to Aretha Franklin’s Sept. 1 concert with Naturally 7 at Chastain, Gordon Chambers, Ledisi and Sleepy Brown (pictured) are among the headliners at Underground Atlanta, while there will be a “Blues, Bourbon and Barbecue Boat Ride” Aug. 31 at Stone Mountain Park, a Fat Matt’s Rib Shack Blues Stage and classic Montreux filmed performances featuring Weather Report and Marvin Gaye will be screened. For details: www.atlantafestivals.com or 404-853-4234.
A LUXE benefit
99X’s Leslie Fram, meanwhile, reached out to Buzz on Tuesday to inform us of a notable Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation fund-raiser she’s heading up this fall. Fram is the co-owner of LUXE-Atlanta, a high-end downtown boutique that will feature some unique artwork for auction Oct. 18 as part of a “Keep a Breast” fund-raiser. Last weekend, Fram and Atlanta broadcasters, including WXIA-TV news anchor Karyn Greer, WSB-TV’s Jovita Moore, CNN’s Nicole Lapin, WGCL-TV’s Corinna Allen, DAVE FM’s Holly Firfer and Mara Davis, Q100’s Jessica Dauler and Grammy’s Atlanta chapter president Michelle Caplinger all turned up at LUXE to have their chests and torsos casted. The casts will be painted, displayed and auctioned off for the breast cancer charity in a “fashionable event” at the shop 6:30-9 p.m. Oct. 18.
“I have to admit, at first I thought it was a little creepy,” Davis told us Tuesday. “But when I saw all the castings lined up, I recognized what a powerful statement this is. This is a great way to get women to think about their breasts and their health.”
Davis also has a personal reason to participate: This weekend she’ll go home to celebrate the first anniversary of her mother’s successful lumpectomy.
‘Ice Tour’ heats up
Want further proof that ‘tweens and the Disney Channel have taken over the earth? Demand for tickets to “Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour” at Philips Arena Oct. 24-28 is now so high, the ice skaters’ understudies may soon have understudies. Shows have been added for 10:30 a.m. Oct. 25 and 26. (Metro school principals take note: These are both school days.) On Oct. 27, shows are 11 a.m. and 3 and 7 p.m. The Oct. 28 shows are at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
“The additional shows will help to accommodate the numerous box office requests,” explains a press statement e-mailed to Buzz on Tuesday. The ice shows are based, natch, on the insanely popular “High School Musical” series of kid flicks on the Disney Channel. And on the off chance you happen to be over the age of 16 and reading this, “High School Musical 2” will make its world premiere Friday night on the basic cable channel at 8 p.m. (that’s, like, only two days from right now, OMG!).
Sick bay update
Luciano Pavarotti, 71, who was admitted to an Italian hospital last week with a fever, is expected to be released “imminently” and plans to resume recording a new album, his manager said Tuesday.
Doctors have cleared the tenor to leave the Modena hospital where he has been undergoing tests since last Wednesday, his manager, Terri Robson, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
The opera superstar, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer last year, was hospitalized in his hometown after a routine examination revealed a high temperature, Robson said. She said a newspaper report that the tenor was suffering from pneumonia was “completely exaggerated.”
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Rose Marie (“The Dick Van Dyke Show”) is 84. Actress Pat Priest (“The Munsters”) is 71. Actress Debi Mazar (“Entourage”) is 43. Actress Debra Messing (“Will and Grace”) is 39. Actor Anthony Anderson (“Barbershop”) is 37. Actor Ben Affleck is 35.
Contributing: News services
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