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Stars shine at Young Jeezy’s kids’ benefit
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If the rest of Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy’s week-long “1,000 Toys For 1,000 Kids” benefit goes as well as its launch Tuesday night, we can already declare it a success. The artist had a star-studded turnout for his dinner and party at Justin’s restaurant in Buckhead, where the cost of admission was simply a new toy or $25.
Among the notables were the Miami Heat’s Shaquille O’Neal, Dwyane Wade (right, with Young Jeezy) and Alonzo Mourning, R&B singer, actor and curious new porn star Ray J, Disturbing Tha Peace co-president Chaka Zulu and Hot-107.9’s Mizz Shyneka.
“I know there’s a lot of star power around, people dancing and whatnot,” Jeezy noted between bites of fried chicken and macaroni and cheese, as DJ Salah Ananse spun classic soul and hip-hop. “But I need to see toys in hand when they’re dancing. Toys in hand when they walk in the door. This is about the kids.”
The charity series was scheduled to continue Wednesday with a Celebrity Bowling Challenge at 300 Atlanta. Today there’s another toy drive planned at the Cascade Family Skating Center (3337 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday. Jeezy’s giving away toys at the Union Gym in Macon from 4 to 7 p.m. And the wrap-up is Christmas Eve in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward community, with V-103’s Greg Street.
SIBLING RIVALRY
So, the day after Britney Spears wins the coveted and prestigious “Bestie” award as People.com’s Most Talked About Star in 2007, her kid sister just happens to turn up presto preggo. Web sites everywhere lit up with news that the 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears, the star of “Zoey 101” was 12 weeks pregnant, something she disclosed in the most recent edition of OK! magazine. The father, she said, is Casey Aldridge. “It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected,” she said. “I was in complete and total shock and so was he.” The Spears’ mom, Lynn, said Jamie Lynn has known Aldridge for years and began dating him in high school. But in a recent interview, Spears said she had no steady boyfriend. “I kind of just keep my options open,” she said. “I have a bunch of friends that I always hang out with, a bunch of guy friends.”
It’s that she only gets pregnant with one of them.
Meanwhile, the Nickelodeon show will be faced with the always-awkward task of writing teen pregnancy into the script of a family show, although producers say the fourth season, which starts in February, has been completed. On a positive note, Jamie Lynn can benefit from her big sister’s baby-related hand-me-downs, including a “lightly used” car seat.
VANILLA ICE LUKEWARM ON ATL SONGS OF THE ‘90S
When VH1 invited Vanilla Ice for an interview to promote its weeklong “100 Greatest Songs of the ’90s,” Buzz jumped at the chance to pick the rap star’s brain on songs by artists with Atlanta ties. But the Ice man, calling in from Palm Beach, didn’t hit the mark with witty bon mots every time. His thoughts on No. 8 song “Waterfalls” by TLC: “That’s not one of their better songs.” How about R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” (No. 10)? “I didn’t really like that song too much.” Collective Soul’s “Shine” (No. 42)? “I barely even know that song.” Phew. OK. He finally got excited when we mentioned No. 60, Bell Biv DeVoe’s “Poison” (Ronnie DeVoe is a local real estate agent): “When those three broke off from New Edition, everybody wrote them off. Then they came out with this and blew everybody away.
“They’re cool guys.”
Further down, Atlanta’s Arrested Development landed at No. 71 with “Tennessee.” “They were on the same label as me. They were great. They came out of nowhere. They went back to nowhere.” Ice supported the No. 1 song, Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” “That’s my No. 1, too. They created grunge. Then Kurt [Cobain] took himself out. That sealed it. Not that you have to take yourself out to be No. 1.”
He groaned when he heard former Atlantan Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” landed at No. 3. “That’s the song every girl who thinks they can sing sings. If I hear another girl try to copy Whitney Houston, I’ll puke.” Ice keeps himself in the spotlight touring (he sold out the Masquerade last year) and doing reality shows such as “Surreal Life” and most recently, CMT’s “Celebrity Bull Riding.” “Hell yeah! Talk about an adrenaline rush!” He said he invested his “Ice Ice Baby” day money well and can do what he wants. “Ice Ice Baby,” which landed at No. 29, will be on tonight at 10 when the countdown goes from 40 to 21.
BERNHARD CANCELS ATLANTA DATES
Actress and singer Sandra Bernhard has canceled dates at the 14th Street Playhouse Dec. 29 and 30 because the show’s producer got into a car accident and was in a coma, her publicist Len Evans told Buzz Wednesday. The New York social commentator/satirist is best known for her roles in the 1983 film “The King of Comedy” and TV’s “Roseanne” as well as her fluid one-woman shows. Evans didn’t know when Bernhard would be back to Atlanta.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actor John Hillerman (“Magnum P.I.”) is 75. Drummer Peter Criss (Kiss) is 62. Musician Alan Parsons is 58. Singer Billy Bragg is 50. Singer Chris Robinson of Black Crowes is 41. Actor Jonah Hill (“Superbad”) is 24.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
Tabloid Wedding Week?
The week before Christmas has seen some juicy marriages from a celebrity standpoint. In 1990, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman got married in Colorado. They had met while filming “Days of Thunder.” In 1997, Woody Allen married Soon-Yi Previn in a secret wedding in Venice, Italy. In 1999, comedian Jerry Seinfeld married public relations executive Jessica Sklar in New York.
Contributing: Rodney Ho, Sonia Murray and news services
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