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Water crisis moves Screen on the Green
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia’s drought won’t stop Atlanta’s popular, free outdoor film series Screen on the Green, which this year will temporarily move to Centennial Olympic Park.
Turner Broadcasting plans to announce next week that Screen on the Green, which attracts hundreds of thousands of movie fans to Piedmont Park each summer, will be held at Centennial and will begin May 29. Films will be screened each Thursday through June 26.
The movie lineup will be named later. But one thing is for sure: presentation of the series will switch from Turner Classic Movies to Peachtree TV.
Moviegoers can bring picnic baskets and food to Centennial for the series, and vendors will be selling food and drinks. Items not allowed: glass containers, alcoholic beverages and grills of any kind. Participants are asked not to bring pets and to avoid umbrellas and high-backed chairs.
Once the drought situation is over, plans are for Screen on the Green to return to Piedmont Park.
BE MINE AND MINE AND MINE?
Kelly Stevens, the unmarried half of B98’s Kelly & Alpha morning team didn’t have a single date for Valentine’s Day.
He had 98.
The station threw Stevens into the center of “98 Dates With Kelly Stevens Valentine’s Day Luncheon” at Ray’s on the River on Thursday. Reported producer Will Gara to Buzz Central: “Usually when you have a luncheon of some sort, there are always no-shows. However, all 98 winners came to the 98 Dates luncheon.”
Overheard at the restaurant’s bar? Two lady listeners, sizing up the competition, said they “were ready to rumble” to get Stevens alone.
In addition to lunch, the Stevens’ 98 valentines received “Becoming Jane” DVDs, Spa Sydell gift certificates and a heart-shaped box of chocolate.
At deadline Friday, it still wasn’t clear whether any of the single women would enjoy a second, less-crowded date with Stevens.
DIVORCE DOCKET
The divorce hearing between Paul McCartney and Heather Mills looks set to stretch into a second week after a judge allotted extra time for the couple’s court case.
The hearing had been scheduled to end Friday, but officials at London’s Royal Courts of Justice said the case before Justice Hugh Bennett would continue Monday.
Mills and McCartney separated in 2006 after four years of marriage and have since traded blows in the media while trying, and failing, to agree on divorce terms.
The hearing was called to decide on Mills’ share of the former Beatle’s fortune, estimated at as much as $1.6 billion. Media reports suggest that McCartney has offered his wife about $50 million and that she is seeking at least double that amount.
The couple have squared off every day this week, but few details have emerged. Unlike most British court cases, divorce proceedings are heard in private, and the courtroom is closed to journalists and the public.
Mills, 40, and McCartney, 65, have made no comment to the reporters and photographers who have gathered outside court each day.
McCartney has hired lawyer Fiona Shackleton, who represented Prince Charles in his 1996 divorce from Princess Diana. Mills, who fired her legal team late last year, is representing herself.
After the hearing ends, Bennett is expected to take several weeks to consider his settlement. The terms will not become public unless it is challenged in the Court of Appeal, or either of the parties chooses to reveal details.
CELEBRITY
BIRTHDAYS
Today: Actor LeVar Burton is 51. Rapper-actor Ice-T (below) is 50. Drummer Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters is 36.
Sunday: Actor Hal Holbrook is 83. Comedian Larry the Cable Guy is 45. Actor Dominic Purcell (“Prison Break”) is 38. Actress Denise Richards is 37. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day is 36. Actor Jerry O’Connell is 34. Country singer Bryan White is 34. Actor Jason Ritter (“Joan of Arcadia”) is 28. Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“3rd Rock from the Sun”) is 27.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“My garbagemen are so used to me running after them because I’ve forgotten that my garbage cans need to be out. Literally, with my Afro out to here, no bra on, in a muumuu, in my bedroom slippers, I’m going, ‘Wait! Wait!’ If there were paparazzi, I would never work again.”
—“Raisin in the Sun” and “Private Practice” actress Audra McDonald in Entertainment Weekly on the upside of living in upstate New York.
Contributing: Bob Longino and news services.
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