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Dallas Austin picked for Ga. Music Hall of Fame
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s called the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and not the Georgia Morals Hall of Fame, after all. That’s perhaps why it’s slightly less of a surprise that Dallas Austin is among its just-announced inductees.
As you may recall, it was only a month ago that Austin was convicted, then pardoned, for cocaine possession in Dubai. Besides showing up at church, celebrating privately with some celeb friends at Pano’s & Paul’s and a brief cameo at the Royal downtown, the Grammy-winning producer has been mostly out of sight.
Now Austin has reason to reappear Sept. 16 at the 28th annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame awards banquet at the Georgia World Congress Center, where fellow inductees R.E.M., Gregg Allman, Jermaine Dupri and the late Felice Bryant will be honored by 99X’s Leslie Fram and WSB-TV anchor Monica Kaufman. Tickets range from $75 to $100 per person. For more information call 770-934-0906.
Gambler eager to raise real estate stakes
The last thing we ever want to do is get on the wrong side of Kenny Rogers. The man is a country music legend, a very successful entrepreneur and, well, he once introduced us to Dolly Parton at a cocktail party! So what did we do to prompt a phone call to Buzz Central from the Gambler?
Rogers called to say he was concerned that we left out a few pertinent details regarding the sale of his Buckhead home.
On Monday, Buzz reported that the five-acre spread, with an asking price of $10 million, sold for $8.5 million. That’s true, but, Rogers says, “that was strictly for the real estate. It was $8.5 million for the real estate. And then the rest of it was for all the furnishings that I put in — and I made a profit on that.” That put him within spitting distance of his original asking price. “I got exactly what I thought I would get for it,” he says. “I made a lot of money on it.
“This is what I do, high-end homes,” Rogers says, noting that his firm, Kenji Design Studios, also will be involved in the design of the new condo project headed by Donald Trump (expect two high-rise towers behind the High Museum in Midtown).
“I’m really trying to make myself the guy in Atlanta,” Rogers says. “We think there’s a market that’s untouched, which is CEO territory, and everybody’s afraid of it. But we’re not afraid to play there, because we know how to make it work. I’ve been very successful there, and I don’t want to leave the impression that I don’t know what I’m doing, because I do.”
He can decorate our lives anytime he wants.
Free drinks, pricey parking
As a thank-you to the major fund-raisers of this spring’s successful Dine Out for Project Open Hand fund-raiser, the nibbles and drinks came courtesy of restaurateur Jeff Landau Monday night at Einstein’s in Midtown.
The city’s eateries and Dine Out ambassadors who raised the most cash for the Meals on Wheels outreach program were feted during a posh cocktail party. Supporters John Thompson, Stan Brooks, Bill Palmer, Robert Taylor and Tom Turner were the fund-raiser’s top batch of ambassadors, raising $13,205 by dining at the Colonnade back in April. Supporter Pete Marsala and friends raised $2,277 while eating at Roxx Tavern & Diner, and Dine Out participant Heyward Young and associates brought in $2,211 from a meal at Fritti.
Top restaurants recognized were Two Urban Licks ($4,069) in the large capacity category, Goldfish in the medium capacity category ($3,861) and Lobby at Twelve in the small capacity category ($2,267).
Project Open Hand raised a record $165,000 at this year’s daylong Dine Out event, supported by more than 200 restaurants in the metro area. And unlike on Dine Out night each year when he and B98.5 FM co-hort Alpha Trivette pop into a dozen restaurants to thank patrons, morning man Kelly Stevens opted to park for Monday night’s event. The decision had its perils. In the self-parking lot across the street, a thief posing as a lot attendant scammed $5 from Stevens before being chased off by the cops.
Reasoned Stevens: “If I actually had a brain, I would have realized something was off when the guy went over and sat down under the ‘Parking Attendant Not On Duty’ sign.”
Celebrity birthdays
Singer Billy Henderson of the Spinners is 67. Comedian-director David Steinberg is 64. Actor Sam Elliott is 62. Actress Melanie Griffith is 49. Actress Amanda Bearse (“Married … W ith Children”) is 48. Singer Aimee Mann (“Til Tuesday”) is 46. Singer Whitney Houston is 43. Actor Pat Petersen (“Knots Landing”) is 40. Actress Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”) is 38. Actor Eric Bana (“Munich”) is 38. Rapper Mack 10 is 35.
Contributing: Shane Harrison, Sonia Murray and news services. If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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