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‘E-mail Gone Wild’: More Bob & Liz & Ted…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Ted Turner-Elizabeth Dewberry-Robert Olen Butler love triangle and Butler’s e-mail posted ‘round the world has now fully evolved from being mere fodder for gossip columns and celeb Web sites. On Thursday, under the headline “The Affair of an E-mail Gone Wild,” the bizarro soap opera became newsworthy even for The Washington Post.
Wrote Post staffer Neely Tucker of the Pulitzer winner: “Butler has never sold a lot of books, but his startling e-mail about his divorce is getting the kind of buzz writers dream about.”
Over at Slate.com, meanwhile, a think piece titled “Ted Turner’s Big Love” wryly observed that Butler “explained in bizarrely fine-grained detail why his wife of 12 years left him to be Ted Turner’s part-time girlfriend.”
Heck, even National Public Radio weighed in.
Inexplicably, Butler himself kept the media feeding frenzy on his personal life churning by sending yet another explanatory letter to the fiendish editors at Gawker.com whom he had publicly chastised just one news cycle prior for posting his original e-mail.
A winning summer
Former Sutton Middle School teacher John Armbrust found a novel way of unwinding on his summer vacation — he won $381,000 at the “World Series of Poker” in Las Vegas this week. With ESPN and Pokernews.com cameras rolling and about 250 people watching, Armbrust “went on a sick, sick rush,” finishing 18th in the tournament. The former Atlantan who just moved to the left coast tells Pokernews.com he plans to spend his winnings on a new hybrid car and to celebrate with a Mexican feast and “a victory cigar.” When asked if he planned to turn poker pro, the idealistic 26-year-old shook his head and replied: “No. I teach for a living. I love my job and I love my kids.”
High five
Top On Demand TV selections as determined by Comcast digital cable customers in metro Atlanta for the week of July 25-Aug. 1:
1. “Entourage,” Season 4, Episode 48, HBO
2. “Beautiful Girls” music video, Sean Kingston, Music Choice
3. “Cupid Shuffle” music video, Cupid, Music Choice
4. “Wall to Wall” music video, Chris Brown, Music Choice
5. “Dora the Explorer,” “Baseball Boots” episode, Nickelodeon
— Courtesy of Comcast
Dispatch from Paris
Like most of us, Q100 news director Melissa Carter had a pile of mail greeting her when she returned from vacation this week. Unlike the rest of us, however, Carter’s correspondence included a hand-written thank-you note from Paris Hilton and an autographed picture. A while back, Carter and her cronies on “The Bert Show” decided to write to Hilton while she was cooling her heels inside a jail cell. The goal: to see who could craft a sticky-sweet missive that would result in a return letter.
“At first, I thought someone was jacking with me,” Carter said of the Paris parcel.
“The letters I’m [receiving] really do put a smile on my face as I sit here in my cell, sad and alone,” Hilton wrote in the hand-written note which was photocopied and mailed out. For the record, Hilton incorrectly spelled the word “receiving” and confirming our worst fears, signed her name by dotting her “i’s” with tiny hearts.
Celebrity birthdays
Singer Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires is 83. Singer Tony Bennett is 81. Actor Martin Sheen is 67. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 66. Actress Evangeline Lilly (“Lost”) is 28.
Contributing: News services.
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