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Edited Atlanta magazine profile less Vick-torious
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Let’s hope this doesn’t become a journalistic trend. In the November issue of Atlanta magazine, the 348-page glossy monthly republishes its original 2003 positive piece on Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick by writer Donnell Alexander.
With some notable edits.
The changes reflect the recently disgraced NFL player’s guilty plea on federal dogfighting charges. The new, less Vick-torious version of the story is titled “Second Draft.”
Explains Atlanta editor in chief Rebecca Burns in a cover letter sent to Buzz with the advance issue: “When news broke and kept on breaking about the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal, it was hard not to forget our glowing feature that raved, ‘What the league needs now is Vick, Mike Vick.’ We’ve decided to eat our words.”
In a call to Buzz Monday, Burns added: “It’s a cautionary tale about hero worship.” The re-edited piece is filled with red pen slashes through the original copy and fresh edits inserted. For example, Alexander’s original sentence, “Now is the first time Atlanta has a franchise truly in the running for ‘America’s Team status,’ ” has been replaced with “Most Humiliated status.”
Burns openly hopes that this month’s cover subject, WSB consumer guru Clark Howard, doesn’t suffer a similar fate.
The cover line? “Clark Howard 2009? Mr. Cheap Could Be Mayor. Really.”
Still, the issue provides one absolute certainty for those of us who have ever inevitably ordered Rathbun’s pastry chef Kirk Parks crazy good banana peanut butter cream pie only to be told that other addicted diners already have scarfed down the last slice. In the new issue, Parks supplies the mag with the recipe. Be warned: to prepare, the divine dessert requires eight fluted tart shells, a double boiler, a pastry bag with a large star tip, a stand mixer with whisk attachment, a candy thermometer and a propane torch. The magazine hits stands Nov. 1.
Far from a bust The local women who donated artfully accessorized plaster castings of their chests in August made quite a lasting impression at last week’s benefit at Luxe Atlanta boutique downtown. On Monday, Buzz was informed that the fund-raiser for Keep a Breast Foundation and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure raised $10,000 for the charities.
The edgy breast cancer awareness month benefit (which resulted in several flack-inflicted aneurysms at a certain cable news outlet’s public relations offices in two major American cities last summer when we initially wrote about it) boasted busts of female radio and TV personalities along with other notable local female fund-raisers. We’re told that the bidding was especially spirited between the husbands of said women and Atlanta jeweler Ken Goldwasser. Shawn Arnold, husband of Dave FM’s Holly Firfer, and George McKerrow Jr., co-owner of the Ted’s Montana Grill chain and hubby of Atlanta charitable fund-raiser Ginair McKerrow, both were determined to take home their wives’ casted corsets.
Explained Firfer via voicemail: “There was actually a bidding war for my boobs. Who knew?!”
“It was a wonderful result for a first-year event,” rep Kitsy Rose told Buzz Monday. “We couldn’t be happier.”
No whiffing on Wiffle Ball benefit Elsewhere on the fund-raising front, once (and future?) Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine and his wife, Chris, helped raise a whopping $20,200 for a luncheon and Wiffle Ball game in their Country Club of the South backyard. At a recent benefit for CURE Childhood Cancer, the Glavines’ unique auction item initially went for $10,100. The original bidder then re-donated the event back to CURE so cancer patients could attend the event and also has pledged to outfit the patients with baseball equipment and T-shirts. A second successful set of bidders was five families who split the cost for a one-of-a-kind father/son outing with the pitcher.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS Director Ang Lee is 53. Jazz singer Dianne Reeves is 51. Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 51. Singer “Weird Al” Yankovic is 48. Actor Ryan Reynolds (“Van Wilder”) is 31. Actress Masiela Lusha (“George Lopez”) is 22.
ON MY TiVo and iPOD Karrine Steffans, author of “The Vixen Diaries”
” ‘Mad Men’ on AMC is amazing. Very smart. ‘Californication’ on Showtime, with David Duchovny, I love it. Love it! It’s not on now but ‘The Tudors,’ also on Showtime, is must-see TV in my house. I’m starting to watch ‘Tell Me You Love Me’ on HBO. It’s very confusing, but I’m still watching. … On the iPod, I just downloaded a lot of John Lennon stuff. Lots of Elton John. I listen to a lot of oldies.”
Contributing: Sonia Murray and news services
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