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Slugger Francoeur pitching for cancer center
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Braves slugger and Parkview High School grad Jeff Francoeur will try his hand at pitching today as he and his fiancee Catie McCoy help to raise needed funds during the 7th Annual WSB Care A Thon to benefit the Aflac Cancer Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Today just after noon, Frenchy will be phoning into “The Neal Boortz Show” from Cincinnati where the Braves are playing the Reds tonight. Jeff and Catie will be auctioning off seats to a Maggiano’s Little Italy lunch with Francoeur and some assorted Braves pals. The 50 spots are going for a $1,000 pledge to the charity. We’re told that each attendee will receive two tickets to the September luncheon and also an autographed baseball and photo as well. An exact date hasn’t yet been set.
“I’m just going to show up whenever they tell me to,” the 23-year-old told Buzz on Wednesday. Francoeur says he first got interested in the charity by watching his teammate John Smoltz’s work with the organization.
“Obviously, hanging out with Smoltzy has had an impact on me,” he explained. “When you go up there and meet with the patients, you can’t help but be affected by it. Hopefully, I can take over for John when he retires.”
We also squeezed a small scoop of out Francoeur: the former Parkview sweethearts are getting married in November here in Atlanta after the season ends.
Listeners can tune in to 750 AM on the radio dial, call 1-888-750-2772 to support the Aflac Cancer Center or listen online, read patient stories and donate by logging on to www.wsbradio.com. Info: www.choa.org/careathon.
The fund-raiser continues on-air through 6 p.m. Friday.
Festival of Fonda will be on TCM
The plasma TVs at Buzz Central will be cranked to Turner Classic Movies today as we conduct daylong, um, research. Jane Fonda, our fave Poncey-Highland two-time Oscar winner, is the film channel’s subject as part of its monthlong “Summer Under the Stars” series. For Fonda fans, today’s schedule offers a look at many of her rarely seen early films, including “Tall Story,” her 1960 debut with Tony Perkins along with 1962’s “Period of Adjustment,” 1963’s “In the Cool of the Day,” 1964’s “Sunday in New York,” 1965’s “Cat Ballou” and 1966’s “Any Wednesday.” Fonda’s in-depth “Private Screenings” interview with TCM host Robert Osborne is also on the program. Alas, Fonda’s fascinating 1964 French film,”Les Felins” did not make the cut. At Buzz, however, we prefer to refer to the film by its U.K. title: “The Love Cage.” Check TCM.com for schedule details.
Overscene
R&B singer Ledisi at South City Kitchen in Midtown, where she was enjoying the fried green tomatoes appetizer and the vegetable plate before her appearance Tuesday night at Grown Folks Radio 102.5’s Cafe 102 at Sugar Hill. The vocalist will return to Underground Atlanta Sept. 1, first for a performance on the Neo Soul Stage at the Montreux Jazz Festival. And later that night she’ll host an album release party scheduled at the Event Loft for her CD “Lost And Found,” that hits stores next Tuesday.
Celebrity docket
Rapper Foxy Brown was hauled off to jail Wednesday after a judge revoked her probation.
The 27-year-old rapper was accused of violating the terms of her release in New York after she was arrested this month on charges she smacked her neighbor with her cellphone (or as we refer to it at Buzz Central: “going all Naomi Campbell on somebody.”). Shockingly, authorities said Brown also skipped her anger management classes and traveled out of the city without permission.
In perhaps the most understated quote uttered so far this year, Department of Probation attorney Matilde Leo told the court: She has an air of entitlement about her. Probation is a privilege, not a right. … She has finally abused that privilege to the point of no return.”
Judge Melissa Jackson ordered Brown jailed until her next hearing on Sept. 7.
Brown’s lawyer, state Sen. John Sampson, argued that it wasn’t necessary to send her back to jail.
He told the judge the case against Brown in Brooklyn, N.Y., was weak, and that Brown is three months’ pregnant. He said Brown has turned her life around with her pregnancy, wedding plans and deals for a new album and reality TV show.
ON MY iPOD
Chamillionaire, Grammy-winning rapper:
“I’ve got an iPod but I don’t even use it. It’s just that, you know, you’ve got to like plug it up to the computer. And then you’ve got to download songs. And put them in your playlist. I’d rather just get the CD and pop it in. I’m cool with the Discman. The Walkman.”
(By the way, Buzz was also surprised to learn that the artist who sold a record-breaking 4 million-plus ring tones of his single “Ridin, ” doesn’t have a ring tone on his own phone. “I’ve never been one who even participates in all of that,” said Chamillionaire, whose new CD, “Ultimate Revenge” is in stores Sept. 18. “I respect it. But I’m just not one of those people who’ll spend my money to buy all of these ring tones.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“On a table, next to the bed. Where else would you keep your BlackBerry?”— Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin on where herzzoner keeps the mayoral electronic link to the city at night, during an interview with Q100’s “The Bert Show” Wednesday.
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Vera Miles is 77. Satirist Mark Russell is 75. Actress Barbara Eden is 73. Actor Richard Sanders is 67. Singer Linda Thompson is 60. Actress Shelley Long is 58. Singer-actor Rick Springfield is 58.
Contributing: Sonia Murray and news services.
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