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Baumgartner delivers inter-‘Office’ cooking show
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Sandy Springs resident and Atlanta actor Brian Baumgartner, who plays accountant Kevin on the ever-increasingly twisted NBC sitcom, “The Office,” has his very own “extra” on the show’s new season three DVD collection.
On disc two of the set, Baumgartner hosts his own impromptu cooking show, “Kevin Cooks Stuff in the Office” in the corporate cubicle kingdom’s break room.
Taking items from the office vending machine (or as Kevin describes it: “the supermarket that only takes quarters”) and utilizing the microwave and a toaster oven, Baumgartner hilariously demonstrates how to whip up a cheese quesadilla and creme brulee. The ingredients: snack chips, fluorescent orange cheese, a pudding cup and a packet of sugar.
Baumgartner as Kevin then shows the mockumentary film crew his secret stash of fermenting ale at his accounting cubicle. Or as he rationalizes: “The rules specifically say you cannot bring beer into work. It says nothing about making beer at work, however. Genius, huh?”
Blowing past the competition
With a bubble of 5 1/4 inches, Marissa Chamison of Lawrenceville became a bubble gum-blowing champion Sunday in New York.
Marissa, 10, a fifth-grader at Craig Elementary, won a contest held by bubble-gum maker Bubblicious. Her bubble won the 8-10 age group at the event, hosted by NBA star LeBron James. She won a $500 prize, which she had said before the competition that she would use to get a dog.
To win Sunday, Marissa had to emerge as one of the top four bubble-blowers in her age group, then win two head-to-head elimination contests.
She qualified for her trip by winning a competition at Lake Lanier in June. Marissa and her mother, Lyndi Chamison, could not immediately be reached for comment Monday.
The other metro Atlanta competitor, Michele Metzger of Alpharetta, reached the final four of her 11-14 age group, where she lost. Michele is a freshman at Alpharetta High School.
Overscene
“BET Comic View” and “Def Comedy Jam” comedian Pierre hosting the annual Mayor’s Bowl: Strike for Camp Best Friends benefit.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and attendees enjoyed crabcakes, steak pizza and bite-sized mini macaroni and cheese balls.
Urban takes spill
Part-time Nashville resident Keith Urban was uninjured Monday when he crashed his motorcycle near his home in Sydney, Australia.
In a statement issued by his publicist, Paul Freundlich, the country singer said he was “out riding to an AA meeting, a time when my privacy is especially important to me, [when] I felt myself being pursued” by a photographer on another motorcycle.
“I sped up, and in an effort to elude an oncoming car which was making an illegal U-turn, saw no choice but to drop my bike,” the 39-year-old Urban said.
“In actual fact, my pursuer came to my assistance, without taking photos, and helped me from the road,” Urban said. “I returned home, got my car, and continued on my way.”
He said the incident resulted from “one person’s desire to do his job and my desire to maintain my privacy.”
Urban completed a three-month stint in rehab for alcohol abuse this year.
He checked himself into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., last October, less than four months after his wedding to Nicole Kidman. The couple have a home in Nashville.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Singer Don McLean is 62. Actor Avery Brooks (“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”) is 59. Musician Sting is 56. Actress Lorraine Bracco (“The Sopranos”) is 53. Singer Freddie Jackson is 49. Country singer Gillian Welch is 40. Country singer Kelly Willis is 39. Actress-talk show host Kelly Ripa (“All My Children,” “Live With Regis and Kelly”) is 37. Singer Tiffany is 36.
ON MY TIVO
Jerry Powers, Atlanta Peach magazine publisher:
“I love watching [“Real Time With] Bill Maher on HBO. I like the fact that he’s a little out there and a little sick. He’s somebody who’s replaced [1960s counter-culture radicals] Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Also, ‘Entourage,’ definitely and ‘CSI: Miami.’ “
Contributing: Ken Sugiura and news services
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