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Globe-trotting Turner does a slow fade
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CNN founder and current bison baron Ted Turner’s nonstop schedule temporarily caught up with him last week at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation at Lake Oconee.
While delivering brief remarks in front of about 125 Ted’s Montana Grill employees last Wednesday night, Turner “slowly went down to the floor,” according to Turner spokesman Phillip Evans, who was standing nearby. After righting himself, Turner, 68, gripped a podium to steady himself as he finished remarks and was eventually helped off the stage by staffers.
“With back-to-back meetings, fatigue and lack of rest, Ted became a little light-headed,” Evans explained. “He is fine, and there is no cause for concern.”
Last week, Turner was subjecting himself to a typically grueling schedule, recently returning from a trip to Argentina.
Turner was said to be out west Tuesday and not available for comment.
“He was simply just trying to do too much,” Evans told Buzz on Tuesday. “A hotel paramedic checked him out, and he was fine. It was more embarrassing than anything. If there was ever a major health issue regarding Ted Turner, you would know about it.”
Hair’s to friendship
Ten-year-old Avondale Estates resident Amoriah Shaw is once again sporting a shorter haircut to school this week. And thankfully, so is her best friend, Emma Wheeler, 9, of Decatur. Almost four years ago, Amoriah donated her hair to be made into a wig for Emma, who was battling leukemia and losing her hair from chemotherapy.
Now, with her cancer in remission, Emma and Amoriah decided to part with 10 inches apiece during a joint hair appointment at Frost salon in Decatur. They donated the hair to Locks of Love, a nonprofit that fashions wigs for patients experiencing medical-related hair loss.
“Sometimes I reach down to pull my hair into a ponytail and I forget!” Amoriah told Buzz, giggling Tuesday. “It was great to be able to do this with Emma this time. Before, I was sad to see her sick. This was a lot more fun!”
Brains activity on the increase
The Brains, the Atlanta band that flared briefly in the 1980s with the hit “Money Changes Everything” and then flamed out, is returning, in a sense. The guys plan a one-off gig at Club 29 in Decatur on Saturday that will feature Tom Gray (the brain behind the Brains) singing five or six Brains songs, with backing by the Swimming Pool Qs (fellow exiles from the 1980s Atlanta rock scene), with guest appearances by ex-Brainsmen Charles Wolff (on drums) and perhaps Rick Price (on guitar). Gray, who lately gigs with his chamber blues ensemble Delta Moon, is perplexed but pleased about the redux. “The Brains’ site on MySpace, run by our former fan club president, has more ‘friends’ than Delta Moon does,” he said in a recent e-mail. “Somehow forces I don’t understand are converging.”
Stork report
“Prison Break” actress Sarah Wayne Callies (above) is expecting her first child with husband, Josh Winterhalt, her spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The baby is due in late summer, publicist Jodi Gottlieb told The Associated Press.
Callies, 29, portrays Dr. Sara Tancredi on the Fox drama.
Celebrity birthdays
Actor Ernest Borgnine is 90. Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw is 71. Singer Ray Stevens is 68. Singer Aaron Neville is 66. Singer Neil Diamond is 66. Drummer Keech Rainwater of Lonestar is 44. Singer Pat “Sleepy Brown” is 37. Actress Matthew Lillard (“Scooby Doo,” “She’s All That”) is 37. Actress Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”) is 21.
Contributing: Bo Emerson, Maria Saporta and news services
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