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‘GWTW’ fan gets romantic prize in city
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Frankly, spring break didn’t go exactly as planned this week for Laura Meehan, a Lake Zurich, Ill., sixth-grade math teacher. For one thing, she left the house with boyfriend Craig Podolski on Tuesday thinking she was headed to a lake house vacation.
Instead, the 26-year-old avid “Gone With the Wind” reader ended up in Atlanta in front of the movie set doorway to Tara, accepting an engagement ring from the 28-year-old English teacher.
“When he told me we had a stop to make in Atlanta, I was perplexed, but I went with it,” Meehan told Buzz on Thursday. “When we got to Atlanta, he asked the cab driver to take us to the Margaret Mitchell House. I thought that was the surprise.”
As a MMH tour guide sneakily snuck the rest of a tour group away from the couple, Podolski dropped to one knee. “He was cool as a cucumber,” Meehan told us. “He knew I would say ‘Yes’ so he wasn’t nervous!”
As it turns out, the premeditated proposal wasn’t his first “GWTW”-related surprise for Meehan.
In 2006, Podolski celebrated his first Christmas with Meehan by presenting her with a pricey “first edition, eighth printing” of the legendary novel.
“I knew then that he was serious about me,” recalls Meehan. “It was an incredibly thoughtful gift to give me at that stage of our relationship. I won’t read that copy because I’m afraid I’ll damage it, but I’ll occasionally take the wrapping off it so I can look at it. I’ve just always loved the character of Scarlett O’Hara. She’s a strong woman who protected her family.”
In order to catch a 3:50 p.m. flight back to Chicago, the couple didn’t even have time to properly peruse the tourist attraction’s gift shop.
Well, there’s always the honeymoon.
HILARITY ON ‘HEADLINE NEWS?’
With the likes of Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace on its airwaves, CNN Headline News is not known for comedy — at least deliberate comedy. But that’s going to change April 5 at 7 p.m. when the network launches the weekly “Not Just Another Cable News Show,” which is kind of like VH1’s “Best Week Ever.” Mining archived and recent video clips, the show will use various commentators to make snarky comments about said video. The first night’s topic: “Political blunders.” There will be no host. Fox News last year tried a “Daily Show” for conservatives, “The 1/2 Hour News Hour,” but it only lasted a few months.
ACCELERATING ALBUM RELEASE
R.E.M.’s new album, “Accelerate,” won’t be released until Tuesday, but if you happen to be in Athens on Monday, you can get a sneak preview.
A listening party is taking place at the Melting Pot (295 E. Dougherty St.) and doors open at 6 p.m. with the album preview beginning at 8:15 p.m. The event is also a benefit for Community Connection of Northeast Georgia & Family Connection / Communities in Schools.
Though the band won’t make it to the event, there will be a live auction of an R.E.M.-signed Gretsch guitar and a concert package to the band’s June 21 concert at Lakewood Amphitheatre. The package includes six tickets, a VIP table, transportation to the concert from Athens from Touch of Elegance Limousine Service and a VIP parking pass. There also will be other R.E.M. items in the live auction and in a silent auction.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 on the day of show. Get them through www.athensmusic.net, www.meltingpointathens.com or call 706-254-6909.
Closer to Atlanta, all this week, Dave FM listeners can win passes into a private “Accelerate” listening party at Smith’s Olde Bar on Monday night.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actress Dianne Wiest is 60. Country singer Reba McEntire is 53. Country singer Rodney Atkins is 39. Actor Vince Vaughn is 38. Actress Julia Stiles is 27.
OVERSCENE
Kathy Bates
“Misery” actress Kathy Bates enjoying a leisurely dinner of Chef Joey Riley’s jumbo lump crab cakes, a Caesar salad and lemon sorbet at the Buckhead Diner. We’re told the Oscar winner happily posed with the staff for a photo. We hear Bates is in town shooting director Tyler Perry’s latest “The Family That Prays.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Cheese?
In a can?!”
Insider trading convict “All My Children” vixen Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci) who’s currently on the lam, handcuffed to a bank robber and shopping at convenience stores as part of the Martha Stewart-inspired soap plot.
Contributing: Shane Harrison, Rodney Ho and news services
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