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Fonda’s star power has its ups and downs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jane Fonda fans may be a bit put off by “Save the Date!” cards mailed out this week to remind folks of the May 7 Atlanta premiere of “Georgia Rule” at the Woodruff Arts Center benefiting the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.
The two-time Oscar winner is bumped to the bottom third of the Universal movie poster.
Lindsay Lohan, the troubled young actress who is helping to keep the celebrity tabloid industry solvent with her seemingly endless nightclub exploits, scores top billing, while Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman occupies the center of the promotional item.
The Atlantan does get top billing, however, in the upcoming movie’s trailer available at www.georgiarulemovie.net. In the two-minute-plus clip, fans get their first exposure to Fonda’s feisty, rule-loving Idaho grandmother.
In the trailer, Fonda’s character utilizes a baseball bat to kneecap a visitor who takes the Lord’s name in vain at her house. Upon reuniting with her grandmother, Lohan’s character informs her: “You don’t look evil.” Fonda cracks in reply: “Makeup helps.”
The film, helmed by “Pretty Woman” director Garry Marshall, has netted an R-rating for “sexual content and some language,” according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
But our fave moment of the trailer? When Fonda takes a hose to a misbehaving Lohan. Alas, she only uses it to spray water on her.
The movie opens nationally May 11.
For tickets to the G-CAPP screening, go to http://gcapp.org
Neigh to that nuzzle A cocktail party was thrown for the Budweiser Clydesdales on Thursday night at Zoo Atlanta.
Most of the evening’s honorees, however, were less than social, preferring to show us their hindsides inside swanky stalls. Bud, the young Dalmatian who had accompanied the show horses to Atlanta for today’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, was a bit more extroverted, sticking his head through the bars to bark at us.
Clydesdale Chris, however, was the exception. Led by a handler named Jeremy, Chris graciously posed for pictures and caught a few female admirers off guard when he unexpectedly burrowed his head into their cleavage. Explained Jeremy to Buzz: “He has a habit of doing that. He loves women’s perfume. Once during a Maxim magazine photo shoot, Chris even inadvertently took off a model’s top.”
Inadvertently?
Delaying the angst Nickelback fans will have to wait an additional week to see their favorite mopey rockers. The act postponed its sold-out show Friday night at Gwinnett Arena after singer/guitarist Chad Kroeger strained his voice. Tickets for the show, with opening act Three Days Grace, will be honored Thursday at the venue. Via a statement, Kroeger said: “Atlanta is one of our favorite places to play. The fans are especially good to us here and we want to make sure they get the full Nickelback show. We will be back on Thursday ready to rock this town!” Consider yourself warned.
Concert canceled As details emerged Friday about Boston lead singer Brad Delp’s suicide in Atkinson, N.H., local fans of the 1970s rock act encountered a unique announcement regarding the group’s summer tour stop here. The Associated Press reported that Delp died of carbon monoxide poisoning from two lit charcoal grills and car exhaust fumes.
According to a note paper-clipped to the singer’s shirt, Delp disclosed: “I am a lonely soul… . To whoever finds this, I have hopefully committed suicide. Plan B was to asphyxiate myself in my car. I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation. I have lost my desire to live.”
In local ads showcasing Chastain Park Amphitheatre’s concert series featuring Van Morrison, Stevie Nicks, B.B. King and others, promoters handled the delicate situation with a single word typed across the box advertising Boston’s planned July 8 gig with REO Speedwagon: “Canceled!”
(Personally, the exclamation point really brought it home for us… .)
SICK BAY UPDATE Kelly Ripa says Regis Philbin, her co-host on “Live With Regis and Kelly,” is in good shape after having heart bypass surgery this week. Ripa said Philbin, 75, came through his surgery Wednesday with flying colors. “He is already up joking around with the nurses and the doctors and harassing people and picking on people,” Ripa said in New York. The doctor “told us what we already knew: that Regis Philbin has the heart of a 19-year-old.” Ripa, 36, said she plans to keep her promise to give Philbin some special attention: a sponge bath. MTV’s Damien Fahey, who was filling in for Philbin on Thursday’s show, had a better idea: “It would be nice to bathe him on-air, you know what I mean? We replace the desk with a tub, we run some warm water.” Ripa replied: “That’s the pay-per-view special.”
HIGH FIVE Top downloaded albums 1. Amy Winehouse, “Back to Black” 2. James Morrison, “Undiscovered” 3. Arcade Fire, “Neon Bible” 4. Nine Inch Nails, “Year Zero” 5. Neil Young, “Live at Massey Hall 1971” — iTunes Store
Celebrity birthdays Today: Guitarist Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship is 66. Singer-songwriter John Sebastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful is 63. Actor Patrick Duffy is 58. Actor Kurt Russell is 56. Actor Gary Sinise is 52. Actor Rob Lowe is 43. Sunday: Actor Peter Graves is 81. Country singer Charley Pride is 69. Rapper-actress Queen Latifah is 37. Comedian Dane Cook (“Employee of the Month”) is 35. Singer Adam Levine of Maroon 5 is 28.
Contributing: news service.
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