Andy Garcia, who's in Atlanta filming "Let's Be Cops," has been spotted a number of times. All the tipsters who have reported running into him say he's the nicest guy ever.
He dropped by Fox Bros. BBQ on Monday night. Last week, he visited Papi’s Cuban Grill in Midtown. Before that, he feasted on the famous buttermilk fried chicken at South City Kitchen Midtown in mid-June.
"Let's Be Cops," also starring Nina Dobrev of "The Vampire Diaries" fame, along with James D'Arcy and Damon Wayans Jr., is about friends who pretend to be cops. Then things go haywire.
The movie has filmed in numerous Atlanta locations. Sounds like conditions must be harrowing for the talent.
"Atlanta is an interesting city with great restaurants and cool people," cast member Jake Johnson (better known as "Nick" to fans of Fox's "New Girl") tweeted during Wednesday morning's deluge, "but with all this rain and humidity, it's an awful place to film."
Does anyone know where Jake can get an umbrella?
In other news, "Million Dollar Arm" cast members Jon Hamm, Bill Paxton, Suraj Sharma ("Life of Pi"), Madhur Mittal ("Slumdog Millionaire") and Pitobash Tripathy dined at STK last Saturday night. The movie, about a baseball agent who recruits cricket players from Asia to come to America to play Major League Baseball, has filmed in the LaVista Park area.
In other news, Colin Farrell is here filming a movie called "Solace." The movie, also starring Anthony Hopkins, is a thriller about a doctor with psychic abilities who teams up with the authorities to track serial killers. Hopkins has been spotted at Chops Lobster Bar while Farrell has taken a shine to Umi Sushi, a new Buckhead spot. He was there over the weekend, and it was evidently his second visit in recent days. (You know who else has dined there recently? Elton John. He's buds with the owner, Farshid Arshid.)
Farrell also has been spotted at CineBistro, where he saw “World War Z,” and at Andretti Indoor Karting and Games in Roswell.
And finally, comedian Dave Chappelle was in town for a slew of sold-out shows at the Tabernacle last week and dined three nights in a row at Del Frisco's Grille in Buckhead. (My spidey senses tell me he might have been staying at the Mandarin Oriental right behind the restaurant.) Anyway if you run into him again, he's a crabcakes-and-ahi-tuna-tacos kind of guy.
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