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‘Raisin’ ratings help make ABC No. 1 for evening
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“A Raisin in the Sun,” Atlantan Kenny Leon’s TV film directorial debut, delivered a very respectable 12.7 million viewers, Nielsen is reporting. The Monday broadcast with Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald helped propel ABC to the No. 1 position for the evening. The three-hour event handily won every hour of prime time except the 8 p.m. slot, when it trailed NBC’s dreaded Howie Mandell-hosted game show “Deal or No Deal” (15.3 million).
Locally, the show did about 37 percent better than the national average, bringing in about 450,000 viewers, among those 18 to 49 years old. We’re told the film in metro Atlanta nearly doubled the national audience share. Leon sent an e-mail to the subscribers of his True Colors Theatre, telling them: “I am very proud of this film, and even more proud of the over-the-top effort of the team who came together to make it happen. Nothing happens by itself. I have always known that, but with this, my first film experience, I saw it in action in a very big way. From the Broadway play [which Leon also directed], to the shooting of the film, to the editing, to the music composition, to Sundance, to the premiere here in Atlanta a couple weeks ago… well, to say it’s been humbling is the understatement of the year.”
A BIT OF ‘BETRAYED’
In the grand tradition of Star Jones Reynolds’ “Shine,” we valiantly picked up a copy of “Betrayed: The True Life Story of Lisa Lynette Clark” (Phoenix Publishing, $14.99) Wednesday so you wouldn’t have to. The salacious story of Clark, the Douglasville 37-year-old who married her teenage lover and later gave birth to their child, is certainly, well, a page-turner. The extremely explicit “as-told-to” tell-all, written by Jennifer Grant, hit stores just as Clark was exiting prison last week.
The tawdry tome sheds much light on the pair’s unconventional — not to mention illegal — coupling. For example, here’s a glimpse into their courtship, via Page 39: “I put in Marilyn Manson and turned it up loud. I left him in the car as I walked into the Kroger. When I came back to the car, he told me he was without a doubt in love with me. We went to Krystal to eat. We went through the drive thru and ate in the parking lot. We talked and laughed a lot. We had mint chocolate chip ice cream.”
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actor Charles Durning is 85. Actor Gavin MacLeod (“The Love Boat”) is 77. Actress Kelly Bishop (“Gilmore Girls”) is 64. Atlanta singer Cindy Wilson of The B-52’s is 51. Singer Pat Monahan of Train is 39.
OVERSCENE
Forbes Inc. CEO and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes lunching at McKendrick’s Steakhouse on Ashford Dunwoody Road.
Contributing: Meridith Ford and news services
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