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Another reason for soap fans to love Eakes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Warner Robins native and former Miss Georgia Bobbie Eakes has prepared a unique Valentine’s treat for soap fans this year.
Eakes, who portrays the feisty, Southern-fried Krystal Carey Martin on “All My Children,” is among ABC actors who have contributed vocals for “Love Affair,” a seasonal set of standards out this month via Buena Vista Records.
On the disc, Eakes interprets Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me.”
“I fell in love with the arrangement because it was really different,” Eakes told Buzz. “It’s also a sentimental favorite for me because I sang it at my husband’s parents’ 50th wedding anniversary.”
Also on the album is “One Life to Live” actress Kathy Brier, who plays Marcie Walsh McBain, who recently went on the lam with her adopted son even though she was technically under court order to turn over the tyke to his biological father.
Oh, and this being a soap, Marcie naturally ended up in a fictitious drag nightclub in Decatur.
In drag.
As a woman.
Performing a number from “Dreamgirls.”
“I felt so bad for the guys in the scene with me who are drag queens in real life,” Brier recalls with a laugh. “When they do drag in a club, they’re only in costume for a few hours. Then they work a 16-hour day with me! Believe me, everything hurt at the end of the day!”
Perhaps the most unlikely contributor to the CD?
Five-time Emmy winner Anthony Geary, who’s in the process of earning his sixth for playing “General Hospital’s” legendary Luke Spencer. Geary croons the Cole Porter classic “Every Time We Say Goodbye” on the album.
“They tell me I attracted their attention at last year’s Broadway Cares benefit in New York,” Geary says, laughing. “But I played an old lady [Edna Turnblad] from the musical ‘Hairspray.’ I’m not exactly sure how romantic I was! But once they talked me into it, it was enjoyable to do since I started out as a song-and-dance man.”
Geary currently is winning praise for his latest story line: after decades of living on the edge, Luke’s ticker is failing.
“When they first talked to me about it, they said, ‘Would you be concerned about disturbing the character’s reputation as a hero?’ I said, ‘Of course I’ll play it. I’m an actor. We have plenty of heroes around here. Disturb away!’
“Luke being vulnerable is something new to examine. Playing his ‘creeping decrepitude,’ as I refer to it, has been interesting.
“I mean, I’m 60. I have some real-life experience with the body folding in on me. And I’m fighting it all the way, too!”
SWEET DEVIL MOON SETS FOR NOW
Regulars walking up to Midtown’s Sweet Devil Moon are disappointed this week. Diners have been greeted with a sign informing them that the tapas emporium is closed for remodeling.
Two years ago, owner Paul Vinces moved his popular Peruvian eatery located in Oakhurst to the space at 980 Piedmont Ave. near 10th Street.
The sign assures Sweet Devil Moon will “re-open soon.”
Let’s hope.
Surely the bulldozers, cranes, trucks, steel plates, road barriers, cones, barrels and endless sewer makeover operators that have been clustered out in front of the restaurant for months now couldn’t have done a lot to generate business …
COMBS: ‘YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE A HAND’
Four years ago, part-time Atlantan Sean “Diddy” Combs took his celebrity and influence across the nation in an effort to get young people to vote, with the bold slogan “Vote or Die.”
As voters went to the Super Tuesday polls this week, Combs has a simpler message: Go vote.
“If we want to stop the war, if we want to get the economy better, I think that young people need to understand they have to take matters into their own hands,” Combs, 38, tells The Associated Press this week. “It is really like waking up a sleeping giant.”
“The seeds that we planted in ‘04 are now coming to fruition. A lot of young people have decided that this is their future. This president is going to decide their future.”
Back then, Combs refused to endorse a candidate and is keeping to that policy this time around, for now, at least.
“I didn’t really want to get in the political game, but I wanted to see young people become empowered,” he said. “That’s where my attention is at. … I think that young people will have a hand in the result.”
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is 91. Actor Rip Torn is 77. Singer Natalie Cole is 58. Vocalist Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses is 46. Singer Rick Astley is 42.
CELEBRITY DOCKET
Hatcher wins lawsuit ruling
“Desperate Housewives” actress Teri Hatcher (above) has won a ruling in a feud between rival lip plumpers worthy of Wisteria Lane.
A judge ruled Monday that a $2 million lawsuit against Hatcher should be moved out of court and into arbitration.
The lawsuit from cosmetics company Hydroderm claims that a 2005 endorsement agreement stipulated that she would not pitch competing products.
Judge Helen I. Bendix ruled that both sides are bound by a prior agreement to arbitrate all of Hydroderm’s claims.
According to the lawsuit, the company learned Hatcher was also pushing CityLips, a lip plumper made by City Cosmetics, which competes with Hydroderm’s Volumizing Lip Serum.
And here, we always thought it was Nicollette Sheridan who had that particular endorsement deal …
Contributing: News services
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