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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
10/30: Q100 needs more letters/ Keyshia Cole
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Q100’s Bert Show has fallen about 75,000 letters short of its goal to reach 375,000 hand-written thank you letters for U.S. overseas troops in time for Thanksgiving. They will likely start to send out letters soon anyway, guaranteeing fighting men and women in battle zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan will get letters for sure. But the station would still like to hit 375K and is giving listeners another day or two to get pen and paper out.
Host Bert Weiss said he was frustrated they didn’t reach the goal but he’s hoping people will rally and finish up the final 75,000 by Wednesday. You can get more info here.. This idea was spawned earlier this month and it took only 10 days to compile 300,000 letters, still an impressive total.
The national Fox News Channel visited the studio Wednesday morning to report about the effort. “If this doesn’t get us over the hump, nothing will,” Bert noted on the air. Bert said they’ll be hanging in for hours.
And an fyi: I wrote a couple of stories for the print edition about the BET show “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is.” The second season of the show about the R&B singer and her family starts tonight. Keyshia lives in Alpharetta so you’ll see plenty of Atlanta sights during the show.
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10/30: A talk with Nip/Tuck’s John Hensley
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
John Hensley’s character Matt McNamara on FX’s “Nip/Tuck” (which comes back tonight for its fifth season) has already dated a transsexual, romantically tussled with a neo-Nazi gal and dabbled in Scientology.
But Hensley told me recently that Matt isn’t getting a break this season as he and his wife Kimber move to Los Angeles where his real dad Christian and legal dad Sean have translplanted their plastic surgery practice.
“Both of us are well in the throws of crystal meth addiction,” Hensley revealed during a break at the Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School at Road Atlanta in Braselton where he was boning up on his motorcycling skills. (He looks far scruffier than he does on the show.) “And they’re in a loveless marriage. The pregnancy brought them together.”
His character, which started at age 16 in 2003 and is now technically 20, has always seemed much older than his years. This year, since Hensley himself is 30, “we’ve sort of abandoned the idea of attaching an age to Matt. I just can’t do it. It’s not within me to portray a character so significantly younger than I am.”
Hensley said the bizarre plot twists each year makes playing Matt “like coming into a new job.” But he doesn’t question it: “I don’t concern myself in the least with Matt’s story. It’s my job to tell it.”
This season, he said, “I’ve had the most fun. We get to play with hallucinations and fantasies playing in Matt’s head.”
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