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The truth about T.I. … pillows
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thanks to Huff Furniture’s Julie Huff, we can now confidently report that T.I.’s sofa pillows are indeed orange. Huff e-mailed Buzz Central Wednesday after we wrote about the rapper-actor’s new video message posted on Streetcred.com.
The performer, as you may recall, is under house arrest awaiting trial on federal weapons charges. In the Internet video, T.I.’s pillows on his orange couch appeared, well, pink. Huff tells us that the 50-year-old Buckhead business has decorated two homes for the embattled rapper and that his basement family room where he taped the message is designed “in the colors of fire … shades of reds, oranges and yellows.”
This must come as a relief to the PR folks at the rapper’s record label. After all, in the world of rap, “no flash, no bang” can be effectively spun. Owning pink pillows? Not so much.
Scoring a record
Atlanta Brave Tim Hudson and Atlanta Falcon Keith Brooking were on hand this week to salute the efforts of the U.S. Marines, sponsor Federal Express and the Atlantans who ended up helping to a break a world record for a toy drive. The athletes served as the official witnesses at a FedEx distribution facility as Atlanta ended up donating 3,328 pounds of toys for Toys For Tots. The 10-city toy drive — a charitable tie-in to the holiday family flick “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” — raised a record 28,000 pounds of toys across the country. The gifts will be donated to needy kids. For their efforts, Hudson and Brooking both get 100 toys to distribute to their respective charities, the Keith Brooking Children’s Foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta this holiday season.
Wanted: Reader thanks
The window is closing to get your poignant and/or humorous “What I’m thankful for” reflections into Buzz Central for our annual reader-driven Turkey Day column. Send them today along with your full name, where you live, a daytime phone number and a photo if you wish to buzz@ajc.com.
Buy a bowl today
If you dine at Murphy’s today for lunch, you’ll get to keep your bowl and help Open Hand, the city’s meal-on-wheels program for folks living with and affected by AIDS and other illnesses or disabilities. Since September, Murphy’s customers have been dropping by the neighborhood Wired & Fired pottery shop on Virginia Avenue to create soup bowls for the charitable effort. Today, starting at 11 a.m., diners can order a special bowl-centric lunch entree from Murphy’s executive chef Gregg McCarthy and, for a $20 donation, guests will get to take their freshly washed bowl with them when they depart. Among the celebs contributing their artistic touches to bowls in the fund-raiser: WXIA “Atlanta and Company” co-hosts Holly Firfer and Tom Sullivan and CBS 46 “Better Mornings” entertainment reporter Corinna Allen.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
“People’s Court” judge Joseph Wapner is 88. Actor Ed Asner is 78. Singer Petula Clark is 75. Actor Sam Waterston (“Law and Order”) is 67. Bandleader Kevin Eubanks (“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”) is 50. Singer Chad Kroeger of Nickelback is 33. Drummer Jesse Sandoval of The Shins is 33.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The next president could make some profound changes in the first 10 minutes.”
— Former president Jimmy Carter, eliciting laughs Wednesday, on how America’s reputation for respecting human rights could be restored, during a speech at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta.
Contributing: David Simpson and news services
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