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Warm-weather faves return to garden, park
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Break out those low-backed beach chairs. Two of the city’s most-beloved outdoors summer traditions have announced their 2006 schedules.
This week, as the Atlanta Botanical Garden places the finishing touches on the installation of its much-anticipated “Niki in the Garden” art exhibit prior to its public unveiling Saturday, garden rep Geri Laufer somehow found time to slide Buzz the line-up for this year’s SunTrust Concerts in the Garden.
The series, which annually takes place on the Great Lawn below the massive Fuqua Conservatory and the boisterous bullfrog pond, is again aiming for diversity this year.
Kicking off the concert series June 9 is Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy, followed on June 21 by the 1980s rockers the Fabulous Thunderbirds. On July 21: Texas singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker; Aug. 2: Blueswoman Marcia Ball is booked along with Cajun band BeauSoleil; Aug. 9: Gospel singing legends the Blind Boys of Alabama will gig in the garden. And 1980s dance diva Taylor “Tell It to My Heart” Dayne will close out the series on Aug. 18.
It could not be confirmed at press time whether the venue would construct a mirror ball for the occasion. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. May 6 at the Atlanta Botanical Garden gift shop and at Ticketmaster outlets or online at ticketmaster.com. Discounted advance tickets for ABG members went on sale Friday.
One really expansive lawn away, Turner Classic Movies, meanwhile, will present its free seventh annual Screen on the Green film festival in Piedmont Park. The 45-by-24-foot movie screen in the park’s meadow area, directly behind the Park Tavern, will glow again starting June 1 at dusk with the 1964 Beatles classic “A Hard Day’s Night.” June 8: “The Wiz,” the 1978 musical starring Diana Ross, a pre-freak Michael Jackson and the late, lamented Nipsey Russell as they scamper down the Yellow Brick Road; June 15: “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the 1986 John Hughes classic starring a pre-Sarah Jessica Parker-partnered Matthew Broderick; and June 22: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” the 1961 Blake Edwards/Truman Capote/Audrey Hepburn romp featuring the Oscar-winning “Moon River” by Hank Mancini and Johnny Mercer. The series will close out June 29 with the 1971 Gene Wilder musical confection “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”
A ‘Pretty Woman’ pity party?
Bless their hearts, New York gossip columnists can be, well, downright unpleasant. In Monday’s New York Daily News, Gatecrasher scribbler Ben Widdicombe gleefully recounted a visit that Oprah Winfrey and her “best girlfriend” Gayle King made to Julia Roberts’ Gramercy Park apartment last week after the Smyrna gal’s first foray onto the Great White Way via “Three Days of Rain” fetched less than stellar reviews. Widdicombe wrote that his (typically anonymous) source described the social call to Roberts and hubby Danny Moder as a “pity party.” He went on to observe that, on the morning of the reviews, “a tense-looking Roberts and Moder were photographed walking around the neighborhood.”
Not surprisingly, the Daily News scribe neglected to mention that the run of the play is doing boffo box office. At least Widdicombe resisted reprinting that particularly hateful line in New York Times critic Ben Brantley’s review: “Your heart goes out to her when she makes her entrance in the first act and freezes with the unyielding stiffness of an industrial lamppost, as if to move too much might invite falling.”
Coupling
“Entourage” star Kevin Dillon has married fiancée Jane Stuart in Las Vegas.
They were married Saturday in a downtown wedding chapel in a brief service that included several songs performed by an Elvis Presley impersonator, Us Weekly reports on its Web site.
Stuart, 27, who is pregnant (bless her heart), wore a white, floor-length dress, according to the magazine, which had two reporters in attendance. Dillon, 40, was dressed in jeans and a leather jacket.
The service was witnessed by Dillon’s “Entourage” co-star Kevin Connolly, the magazine said.
Uncoupling
Ex-“X-Files” actress Gillian Anderson and documentary filmmaker Julian Ozanne have separated after 16 months of marriage, their lawyers said Monday.
“Gillian Anderson and her husband, Julian Ozanne, are saddened to announce that their marriage is at an end and they are in the process of separating,” said a statement released by Schillings law firm in London.
“At this difficult time they request that their privacy is respected. There will be no further comment.”
Waaay back in 2004, the couple married at a friend’s beach house on an island off Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast.
Celebrity birthdays
Actor Al Pacino is 66. Actress Talia Shire is 60. Actor Hank Azaria (“The Simpsons”) is 42. Actress Renée Zellweger is 37. Actor Jason Lee (“Dreamcatcher,” “Almost Famous”) is 36. Singer Jacob Underwood (O-Town) is 26.
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