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Blais ends ‘culinary sabbatical’ — now what?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Molecular gastro guru Richard Blais is pretty tight-lipped about where he’s been for the past five weeks; let’s just say the chef isn’t talking while the flavor lasts.
Meanwhile, Element, the Midtown restaurant where he was executive chef, closed Oct. 4. But as we all speculate as to his whereabouts (“Top Chef?” “Iron Chef?” The official term he’s using for his absence is “culinary sabbatical”) he’s speculating as to where to get his next paycheck.
“I just got back into town late last week to find out that the restaurant had closed,” the chef told us by phone. Blais and his bad-boy take on molecular gastronomy took over the failed restaurant’s kitchen last spring, immediately developing a small but passionate group of followers.
Emmy for East Lake ‘Miracle’?
East Lake’s enviable transformation from a crack den shooting gallery to an expanding revitalized neighborhood that’s become a national model for urban redevelopment now has another distinction — it’s up for an Emmy. Last week, “Miracle at East Lake,” a TV magazine piece produced by Candler Park resident David Lewis for CNBC’s “Business Nation,” was nominated for a Business and Financial Reporting Emmy Award.
“I normally do stories about terrorism in Beirut, so this was a nice change and an opportunity to work eight minutes from home,” Lewis told Buzz on Monday. “My family was very happy.” Lewis said that the story of East Lake’s two unlikely allies, community-minded veteran Atlanta developer Tom Cousins and long-time community activist Eva Davis provided “two incredibly strong central characters” for the piece. The story is nominated in the Emmy category of “Outstanding Interpretation or Analysis of a Business News Story: News Magazines and Long Form.” Lewis expects to be in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Plaza in New York next month when the Business Emmys are announced.
Julia wants to stay home and garden
As Julia Roberts begins the media rounds for her new film, “Charlie Wilson’s War” coming to theaters Christmas Day, the former Smyrna resident indicates that she may be considering a career change.
“My dream is to be a highly fulfilled and productive stay-at-home mom and wife,” the Oscar-winning actress tells Vanity Fair magazine in its upcoming December issue. “The highest high would be growing our food that I then make, and then composting and growing more — that kind of circle.”
Roberts, 40, says that life would involve having “my own creative outlet, even if it’s silly needlework and stuff like that.”
She and her husband, cinematographer Danny Moder, have 2-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, and a son, Henry, born in June.
When asked whether she wants more children, Robert says: “No, I don’t think so, because at this point I’m having so much fun with them. You only have so much energy and you want to put so much energy into each child. … And they’re a really good trio, these three.”
Robert says marrying Moder in 2002 was the right thing to do.
“It’s the most correct decision I’ve ever made in my life — not that it was even a decision, because it just overtakes you. My whole body knew: ‘Yes.’ He’s just my favorite guy,” Roberts says in the mag due out Nov. 13.
Buzz is now attempting to visualize Roberts composting and needlepointing.
Nope, not happening.
Seinfeld: ‘Is this still CNN?’
Larry King fascinates us. Not only does the guy practice journalism about as well as we calculate algebraic fractions, but CNN pays him a gazillion dollars to be globally inept nightly, all while he enjoys a succession of increasingly younger, blonder wives who allow him to sire children with them. Leave it to comic and “Bee Movie” brainchild Jerry Seinfeld to finally tell the talk show that the emperor has no suspenders. During an interview last week, King actually quizzed Seinfeld on whether his ultra-successful NBC sitcom had been canceled or if he opted to end it. “You’re not aware of this!?” a slack-jawed Seinfeld asked.
“Are you under the impression that I got canceled, Larry? Seventy-five million viewers watched the last episode. I was the No. 1 show on television, Larry. Is this still CNN? There’s a big difference between being canceled and being No. 1.”
As King — clad in a “Bee Movie” necktie (journalistic objectivity, anyone?) —stammered and tried to get to a commercial break, Seinfeld continued, saying “Can we get a résume in here for me that Larry can go over?”
What’s even more curious, CNN.com has posted the video online so viewers can watch one of their highest paid employees crash and burn over and over and over. We’re almost certain that Larry would be livid — if he knew the Internet existed.
Overscene
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and NFL legend Roger Staubach dining on filets and potatoes with a friend at Morton’s The Steakhouse downtown. Some fans recognized the ball player and sidled up to the table to ask for autographs, and Staubach “graciously complied,” we’re told.
Celebrity birthdays
Director Mike Nichols is 76. Actress Sally Field is 61. Singer Glenn Frey is 59. Actor Ethan Hawke is 37. Actress Thandie Newton is 35. Model-actress Rebecca Romijn is 35.
Contributing: Meridith Ford and news services
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