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Friday, April 7, 2006
Tip-top week for T.I.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We undershot the mark slightly last week when we joked with rapper Tip “T.I.” Harris on the red carpet at the “ATL” premiere that he was “having the best day ever.” Try best week. T.I.’s latest album, “King,” released March 28, sold an astonishing 521,702 copies in its first week, according to SoundScan. According to Billboard, “King” is now the biggest debuting record so far this year. It can be found atop the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, the R&B/Hip-Hop Album Chart, the Top Rap Albums Chart, the Top Digital Albums Chart and it’s No. 1 on iTunes.
Georgians set to dish TV feast for food fans
As their proud mama first told Buzz last year, Food Network has officially added some additional Deens to the cable network’s prime-time payroll. Savannah chef and Food Network phenom Paula Deen’s two telegenic boys, Jamie and Bobby, have scored their very own show on the foodie channel.
Set to launch June 27, “Two for the Road” will feature the two Savannah-based Lady and Sons restaurant managers as they criss-cross the country, looking for the best local foods. It will premiere at 10 p.m.
The family matriarch, meanwhile, has also netted her first prime-time series. Tentatively titled “Paula’s Cooking Party,” Deen will interact with fans in a studio and on the road “in a nonstop ride of food, fun, stories and surprises.” The show will premiere in September.
Atlantan Alton Brown is also increasing his Food Network face time. The popular “Good Eats” food scientist and “Iron Chef America” color commentator is busy filming episodes of “Feasting on Asphalt,” which will focus on his cross-country travels via motorcycle as he examines foodstuffs “on the American road today.” Look for that to premiere July 19 at 9 p.m.
‘Hollywood’ busts open
The folks who took in the opening weekend of “Hollywood or Bust,” the hilarious new show at Libby’s Cabaret, are still talking about two of the funniest pieces of theater onstage in town. Performers Kenya Hamilton, Shawn Megorden, Wendy Melkonian and Lisa Paige have somehow concocted lyrics to some of the creepiest, campiest horror movie themes ever scored, including “The Omen,” “Halloween,” “Jaws” and even “Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte” (where pianist Robert Strickland dons a Bette Davis-esque wig). But according to Paige, it’s impossible for her not to lose it during the instantly legendary “Movie Songs You Never Want to Hear Again” medley, including gag reflex-triggering themes from “Fame,” “Ice Castles,” “Flashdance,” “You Light Up My Life” “An Officer and a Gentleman” and yes, the 1980 Olivia Newton-John/Gene Kelly roller boogie flick “Xanadu.”
Paige tells Buzz: “We have this lovely medley of Disney songs and a tribute to Doris Day, but for whatever reason, people are responding more to me laying on a stool and swimming, playing Shelley Winters during our salute to ‘The Poseidon Adventure.’ People are just gravitating more toward the cheese. Of course, I can’t think of many other shows that feature a disaster movie medley, either!”
The show runs through April 30. Some tickets remain for tonight and Saturday’s performances. Call 404-869-4748.
Overscene
“Crash” actor and rapper Chris “Ludacris” Bridges creating his own stir fry at the Real Chow Baby on Howell Mill Road in Midtown. … The entire New Jersey Nets team ordering takeout from Morton’s Steakhouse Downtown after their narrow victory over the Hawks. Morton’s manager Chris Giangrosso personally drove the massive order of appetizers, steak, chicken, crab cakes, steamed asparagus and hot chocolate cake to the Mercury Air Center next to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Crue tribute pays off
Speaking of frequent Atlanta nightclub attractions, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee needed a night off this week. And for one Crue fan, Lee’s absence was a dream come true.
The lucky guy, Harvey Warren, performed with the rock band Wednesday night at the Enmax Center in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, Motley Crue’s publicist, Dvora Vener Englefield, said in a statement.
After Lee played multiple shows wearing a brace and taking anti-inflammatory injections, his doctor instructed him to give his injured right wrist a break after his tendinitis made it difficult for him to perform, Englefield said.
Warren, a Calgary resident who manages a Starbucks by day, moonlights as a drummer in the Canadian Motley Crue tribute band Broken Toyz.
Lee, 43, hopes to return for a concert tonight in Prince George, Englefield said.
Celebrity birthdays
Sitar player Ravi Shankar is 86. Actor James Garner is 78. Movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 67. Television personality David Frost is 67. Singer Janis Ian is 55. Actor Jackie Chan is 52. Actor Russell Crowe is 42. Singer Mark Kibble of Take 6 is 42. Actor Bill Bellamy (“Fastlane”) is 41.
Contributing: news services. If you have a tip, 404-526-2749. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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