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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Ty Pennington, Kirstie Alley, more celebs spotted in ATL
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Extreme Home Makeover” host Ty Pennington, (above) Time magazine writer and VH1 talking head Joel Stein and Pussycat Doll member Melanie Thornton at W hotel in Midtown. …
Actress Kirstie Alley cheering on Chipper Jones in the SunTrust Club section at the Braves/Diamondbacks game at Turner Field. …
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin brunching and sampling the brown bread ice cream at Tap in Midtown.
Couple alert? “American Idol” king David Cook says he’s dating an “American Idol” alum.
The newly crowned “Idol” winner said Tuesday on “Live With Regis and Kelly” that he recently had a dinner date with former “Idol” contestant Kimberly Caldwell.
Cook, 25, said he met Caldwell through the show. When asked if he had a good time, Cook replied: “I did. We’ll probably hang out again. So we’ll see.”
Caldwell, 26, appeared on the second season of the top-rated Fox singing competition.
Cook, from Blue Springs, Mo., defeated 17-year-old David Archuleta last week in a landslide victory. And according to Cook, the singing couple dined at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.
Badu show draws big names
Grammy-winning R&B singer Erykah Badu returned to what she called “my second home” over the holiday weekend.
And her rare performance drew many music notables. Spotted in the capacity Fox Theatre crowd were: film/video director Bryan Barber; Disturbing Tha Peace Records co-president Chaka Zulu; singers Anthony David, Gordon Chambers, Scar and Madame CJ.
Oh, and walking hand in hand with local drummer Lil John Roberts was none other than the million-selling artist he’s been playing with of late — Jill Scott. The vocalist— in town to promote the bra she designed with Ashley Stewart — actually was a surprise guest during the Roots opening set where she joined the hip-hop band in a rocked-out version of a song Badu originally recorded with them, “You Got Me.”
Badu had her audience entranced from the moment she started her two-hour set, playing a great deal from her new CD (“New Amerykah Part One — 4th World War”).
The somewhat eccentric artist also found time to tell presidential candidate Barack Obama to “Hold on!” and to discuss a documentary about government occupation.
Toward the end? The singer rolled around on large Pilates-like balls, wearing a leotard, and closed with “The Wiz” tune “Believe In Yourself.”
A ‘Light’ before ‘Jaws’
Our new favorite activity this week at Buzz Central? Eagerly awaiting the next Bulletin Space message on MySpace.com from Athens rockers Blue Flashing Light. The band has been booked as the warm-up entertainment Thursday prior to “Jaws,” the inaugural flick in the 2008 edition of Screen on the Green in Centennial Olympic Park.
Or as the act itself describes it in the online note to fans: “Blue Flashing Light to open for Richard Dreyfuss!!”
The band makes the best of being asked to gig for a group of chatty, cooler-carrying free movie fans who will no doubt still be grumbling about the relocation of the series from the lusher, now drought-ravaged Piedmont Park.
Still, BFL accurately notes of the classic 1975 Steven Spielberg-helmed beach thriller: “Yeah, we know that [stuff] at the end where the air tank explodes from the bullet is unrealistic, thanks, got it. We watch [Discovery Channel’s] ‘MythBusters’ too. But the meat hanging from the shark’s teeth is pretty raw.”
HIGH FIVE — Music
The top-selling albums at Decatur CD for the week ending May 24:
- Death Cab for Cutie, “Narrow Stairs”
- Portishead, “Third”
- The Roots, “Rising Down”
- She & Him, “Volume 1”
- R.E.M., “Accelerate” Courtesy: Decatur CD
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Singer Gladys Knight is 64. Singer Billy Vera is 64. Singer John Fogerty is 63. Actor Brandon Cruz (“The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”) is 46. Singer Kylie Minogue is 40. Actor Justin Kirk (“Weeds”) is 39. “The View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is 31. Singer Colbie Caillat is 23.
Contributing: Sonia Murray and news services
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