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Parting wishes from Skip Caray to a friend
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta politico Tom Houck was cherishing a final e-mail from his old drinking buddy and Atlanta Braves broadcaster Skip Caray Monday. Caray received an invitation to Houck’s legendary annual Aug. 11 birthday party with Temi Silver, set this year at the brand new Vita Italian restaurant. On Saturday morning, Caray fired the following response across Houck’s homeplate: “I cannot allow your 105th birthday celebration to interfere with another exciting night of Braves baseball! Be kind to the restaurant owner. Don’t take all his money. By the way, Happy Birthday. — Caray.”
Caray died Sunday at home at age 68. Reflected Houck: “I’ll miss him, especially his acerbic and caustic e-mails as of late. Vintage Caray.”
Electrifying debut
Lightning strikes, airborne foliage and torrential downpours did nothing to dampen the Esperanza fashion show late Saturday on the Maxim Prime roof of the Glenn Hotel downtown.
And the 2008 edition of the hipster clothing line co-founded by native Atlantans Daniel Barbalho, Bart Sasso and Eric Kelly is as deliciously Atlanta-centric as ever. T-shirts are dedicated to sweet tea, the drought, Buford Highway and even a tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. As high school students at Marist and St. Pius, Barbalho and Kelly used to lunch along Buford Highway, soaking up the diversity of the scene. Hence their new Our Lady of Buford Highway shirt designed to resemble a religious candle. Esperanza’s What Drought? tee had a similarly entertaining birth. Said Barbalho: “We were sitting at the Pink Pony and Bart just started sketching it out. I think I was complaining about not being able to wakeboard at Lake Lanier.”
Of the trio’s talent for zapping into the city’s cool center, Barbalho told us: “We just love Atlanta, and we don’t want to create dumb airport shirts.” Online: esperanza-atl.com.
Warm reception where it all started
Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson fondly recalled her history with the ATL backstage at Sugar Hill in Underground Atlanta over the weekend. “This is where I got my start,” she told us. “This is where my audition was for ‘American Idol,’ so I feel like this is where my star, I guess, was first conceived.” Hudson was likewise warmly received by a capacity crowd during her 40-minute set. Included (believe it or not): Mac Davis’ “I Believe in Music”; “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” and her current Ne-Yo-penned single, “Spotlight.”
“This is the moment I’ve been waiting on,” she told the crowd of V-103 listeners. “When y’all sing my song back to me!”
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actress Cammie King (Bonnie Blue Butler in “Gone With the Wind”) is 74. Actress Erika Slezak (“One Life to Live”) is 62. Singer Rick Derringer is 61. Actress Maureen McCormick (“The Brady Bunch”) is 52. Rapper Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys is 44. Country singer Terri Clark is 40.
OVERSCENE
P-Diddy and Dallas Austin drinking Patron Platinum tequila at Whiskey Park in Midtown. Jennifer Hudson dining at Two Urban Licks.
Contributing: Sonia Murray and news services
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