PEACH BUZZ: Here’s your chance to be a movie star

Want to “hang out” with Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray on Wednesday (weather permitting) as an extra in a movie?

You’ll get your chance if you’re willing to arrive before sunrise, endure some possibly chilly weather and wear your hair like it’s 1938. (No streaks or highlights!).

The $7 million film “Get Low” is shooting a major scene at Pickett’s Mill Park that needs as many extras as possible.

The film, based on a true story of Tennessee man Felix “Bush” Breazeale, features Duvall playing a man who decides to hold his funeral —- before he dies. In the real story, as many as 12,000 people showed up.

Dean Zanuck, the producer (whose father shot “Driving Miss Daisy” in Georgia 20 years ago), told Buzz he hopes for 300 to 400 people.

He said prizes will be given out and Grammy nominated bluegrass band The Steel Drivers will entertain the masses. The filmmakers will provide food and drink as well. “It’ll be kind of a Depression-era Woodstock,” he joked.

The producers are asking folks who have already been “pre-fit” for 1930s era clothing to arrive at 3:30 a.m. to get a better spot in the film. Those who haven’t been “pre-fit” can show up around 5 to 5:30 a.m.

Go to www.getlow extras.com for more details.

“We will have plenty of coffee and soup and other great warm stuff along with heated tents, etc.,” the Web site notes. “But filming will still be outside, so make sure to wear long underwear and plan simple jackets that you can take on and off as needed!!!”

There also will be shooting on Tuesday.

For folks familiar with film production, there’s plenty of standing around and waiting.

It could take many, many hours.

In other words, it’s not as sexy as it sounds.

Plus, we’re not sure how much you’ll realistically get to mingle with the big stars, but you’ll certainly see them.

‘Following your dreams’ with Fonzworth

A group of Mableton middle school boys got lessons in manners, confidence and style Friday when a surprise visitor stopped by.

Former hip-hop sidekick Derek Watkins —- known in the entertainment world as Fonzworth Bentley —- encouraged 300 kids at Lindley 6th Grade Academy to do the right thing.

Even principal Landon Brown was excited to have Atlanta-native Watkins as a guest for the school’s boys conference.

“He is very positive,” Brown said. “He talks about following your dreams.”

Watkins, 35, is best known for being a personal assistant to Sean Diddy Combs. He is currently the host of “From G’s to Gents,” an MTV reality show.

Gender-based learning programs are part of a school mission that includes giving students more face time with teachers, Brown said. A similar event is planned for girls in March.

TV taste of Repast

Repast’s chef-owner Joe Truex will appear on “The Martha Stewart Show” Thursday, March 5. The deal between chef and Stewart was struck as part of Stewart’s recent visit to Atlanta last week.

“I got a call from one of the show’s producers,” explains Truex. “And they asked me to come and cook. I said absolutely.”

Truex plans to make his Asian/European-inspired crab cakes, made with Georgia shrimp mousse with cream infused with lemongrass, ginger, star anise and chilies, then dusted with cornmeal before they hit the skillet.

Truex’s wife and partner, Mihoko Obunai, will accompany the chef to New York for the taping —- the show is aired live before an audience —- but will sit ringside. The two are expecting their second child later this year.

Celebrity birthdays

Today: Actress Kelly Bishop (“Gilmore Girls”) is 65. Singer Cindy Wilson (above) of The B-52’s is 52. Actor Robert Sean Leonard is 40. Singer Pat Monahan of Train is 40.

Sunday: Singer Roger Daltrey (below) is 65. Actor-director Ron Howard is 55. Actress Catherine Bach (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) is 55. Actor Tim Daly (“Private Practice”) is 53. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar (“NYPD Blue,” “Saved By the Bell”) is 35. “Blues Clues” host Donovan Patton is 31.

HIGH FIVE

The top-selling albums at Decatur CD this week:

1. Black Lips, “200 Hundred Million Thousand”

2. Van Morrison, “Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl”

3. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, “Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit”

4. Various Artists, “Dark Was the Night,”

5. Beirut, “March of the Zapotec”

—- Courtesy Decatur CD

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“You stand too close to Flockhart and you look like Harry Belafonte.”

“Brothers & Sisters” actor Rob Lowe on “The View” Friday discussing his porcelain-skinned TV wife Calista Flockhart and why the network requested that he limit his outdoors recreation after he began appearing too tanned on camera.

Contributing: Rodney Ho, Alexis Stevens, Meridith Ford and news services.

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