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Friday, September 21, 2007
‘Frenchy and Friends’ get fill of Italian
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Before batting practice Friday afternoon, Jeff Francoeur and his Braves teammates Joey Devine and Kelly Johnson carbo-loaded for a good cause at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Buckhead. The sold-out “Frenchy and Friends” luncheon benefited the nonprofit Aflac Cancer Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
And while the Baby Brave was busy posing for pictures with fans who paid $500 apiece to be present, Buzz had a chance to chat with Frenchy’s delightful fiancee, Catie McCoy.
The Parkview High grad told us the couple’s planned November wedding date is 100 percent playoff proof (here at Buzz Central, we’re preferring to think positive …).
“We arranged it so we would be safe either way,” McCoy explained. So, as the couple keeps busy arranging those inevitable 10 million details pertaining to the big day, has Francoeur found time between innings to make those crucial “chicken or fish” decisions?
“He’s been really great about things,” McCoy praised. “At one point, I called him down at the field when I was deciding whether or not to change our fine china. He got right on the computer, looked at the new set and agreed with me.”
The couple has selected Sara Evans’ “I Could Not Ask For More” as the song they’ll dance to at their wedding.
So, Francoeur, the die-hard country fan, didn’t lobby for George Strait?
“Oh, no, no, no,” McCoy replied, laughing. “Yeah, I listen to Sugarland and Tim McGraw, but Jeff likes country country like Hank Williams Jr.”
The couple’s parents also attended the fund-raiser.
When Francoeur finally joined McCoy at the table, we quizzed the ex-Parkview football player about his former team’s prospects this season.
“I can’t really make any predictions,” he said. “I hope they beat Berkmar but [fierce rival] Brookwood’s going to be tough.”
Francoeur is planning to attend Parkview’s homecoming game against Grayson on Oct. 12 in the Big Orange Jungle.
During the luncheon, Aflac Cancer Center reps announced that Francoeur and McCoy would like to make the fund-raiser an annual event.
One lucky lawyer
Atlanta legal eagle Jess Rosen received a slight departure from depositions Thursday night. It seems that having country star Brad Paisley as a client has a few fringe benefits. When Paisley emerged onstage at HiFi Buys Amphitheatre on Thursday night for encores, he asked his Greenberg Traurig attorney to join him on guitar. Luckily, Rosen moonlights on weekends in a jazz group.
Paisley and Rosen traded licks on “Folsom Prison Blues.”
Explained Rosen: “Backstage, Brad asked me if I’d ever played in front of 20,000 people before.”
At the song’s conclusion — and like any true guitar god — Rosen tossed his guitar pick into the crowd.
There was no immediate word if Rosen’s contribution would materialize as a billable hour.
Mile of fashions
Following fashion’s renewed interest in architectural structures this season, Atlanta Peach magazine and 1010 Midtown, a 35-story high-rise coming to 12th and Peachtree, marked the development’s sales launch on Thursday with a fashion show at Opera.
The high-rise is the first phase of a $2 billion plan for 12th & Midtown, which will eventually become home to office, retail, and hotel space in addition to residences. It is billed as the cornerstone of the highly anticipated Midtown Mile.
If the clothing on the runway - bubble hems, bell sleeves and hourglass-skimming dresses from designers such as Roberto Cavalli, John Galliano and Nicole Miller (all provided by Tootsies) - was an indication of what is to come, we can’t wait to see how 1010 Midtown shapes up.
HIGH FIVE
Music
This week’s top sellers at Decatur CD
1. Kanye West, “Graduation”
2. Mark Knopfler, “Kill to Get Crimson”
3. Ben Harper, “Lifeline”
4. “Coathangers” Soundtrack
5. Pinback, “Autumn of the Seraphs”
— Courtesy: Decatur CD
OVERSCENE
“How Stella Got Her Groove Back” actress Suzzanne Douglas shopping in the Atlanta Botanical Garden gift shop in Midtown. “She was absolutely lovely, and she bought a lot of things that we are shipping to her home in N.J.,” dished shop associate Donna Holt.
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Singer David Coverdale (Whitesnake, Deep Purple) is 56. Singer Debby Boone is 51. Singer Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde is 50. Singer Joan Jett is 49. Opera singer Andrea Bocelli is 49. Actor Scott Baio is 46. Bassist-guitarist Dave Hernandez of The Shins is 37. Actor Tom Felton (“Harry Potter” films) is 20.
Sunday: Actor Mickey Rooney is 87. Singer Julio Iglesias is 64. Singer Bruce Springsteen is 58. Actor Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld”) is 48. Producer and Atlantan Jermaine Dupri is 35.
Contributing: Nedra Rhone and news services.
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