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Jennifer Brett

Jennifer Brett writes The Buzz blog for accessAtlanta.com

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This image released by ABC news shows co-host George Stephanopoulos, left, interviewing actress Reese Witherspoon on "Good Morning America," Thursday, May 2, 2013 in New York. During the interview, Witherspoon repeatedly apologized for her behavior during an April 19 traffic stop in Georgia. Witherspoon, 37, was arrested after the trooper said she wouldn't stay in the car while her husband, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, was given a field sobriety test. Toth was charged with drunken driving and is due in court May 23. Witherspoon faces a May 22 court hearing on the disorderly conduct charge. (AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute)

Reese Witherspoon spotted in Atlanta; movie films in Alpharetta

Reese Witherspoon has been in Atlanta for several weeks making a movie called "The Good Lie." Unfortunately the past two weeks have been spent dealing with the April 19 arrest that followed a traffic stop. In brighter news she was seen enjoying a casual lunch at Yeah Burger's Westside location on ...

Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy, at the St. Simons Pier

Will Ferrell all wet on Anchorman 2 set

The Will Ferrell comedy "Anchorman 2" filmed in Atlanta for months before heading eastbound and down, and has been on St. Simons Island this week. The crew enjoyed a night out at Southern Soul Barbeque the other night. (Here's a great photo). But they have been hard at work, too. ...

Madonna reportedly has embraced the Methodist faith.

Madonna becomes Methodist?

Madonna reportedly has embraced the Methodist religion? Life is a mystery, indeed. Thee News Biscuit web site  said she found a copy of the Methodist Recorder in her hotel room during a low point in her life, following a divorce and failed adoption. "Those people had something special that I knew ...

This image released by ABC news shows co-host George Stephanopoulos, left, interviewing actress Reese Witherspoon on "Good Morning America," Thursday, May 2, 2013 in New York. During the interview, Witherspoon repeatedly apologized for her behavior during an April 19 traffic stop in Georgia. Witherspoon, 37, was arrested after the trooper said she wouldn't stay in the car while her husband, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, was given a field sobriety test. Toth was charged with drunken driving and is due in court May 23. Witherspoon faces a May 22 court hearing on the disorderly conduct charge. (AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute)

Reese Witherspoon's Atlanta case resolved

"Legally Blonde" star Reese Witherspoon has resolved her legal issues in Atlanta stemming from her April 19 arrest. "The pending criminal matters against Ms. Reese Witherspoon and Mr. Jim Toth have been resolved," said Ronda “Roni” Graham, Deputy Solicitor for the Municipal Court of Atlanta, in a statement. Witherspoon entered a Nolo ...

Reese Witherspoon apologizes on "Good Morning America," pleads no contest

Reese Witherspoon, arrested in Atlanta recently after "one too many" as she has put it, discussed the recent unpleasantness this morning on "Good Morning America." (Here's the arrest video TMZ posted). "We thought we were fine to drive and we absolutely were not," she said. "It's just completely unacceptable and ...

The Anchorman 2 crew, after enjoying some Q

Anchorman 2 cast spotted in St. Simons

Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Dave Koechner, Paul Rudd and the rest of the "Anchorman 2" crew are down at the coast for some final filming. The movie also starring Kristen Wiig, Christina Applegate and Harrison Ford, with reported cameos by Nicole Kidman and Will Smith, filmed all over Atlanta before ...

Reese is a brunette these days. See if you can spot her in this photo.

Reese Witherspoon at the Waffle House

Reese Witherspoon, back in Atlanta this week for more work on "The Good Lie," filmed at the airport on Monday and today has been filming at a Waffle House on Cheshire Bridge Road. Here are some exciting photos. "The Good Lie" is about a woman who assists a refugee who ...

Former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, eyeing a political comeback, is back on Twitter.

All politics is social

No wonder Anthony  Weiner's back on Twitter. The disgraced former New York congressman, forced from office two years ago when he inadvertently posted a raunchy photo of himself, is orchestrating a return to public life. So far, his re-entry strategy has included an 8,000-plus-word article in The New York Times' Sunday ...

Nikki Silver and Tonya Lewis Lee

Set visit: "Watsons Go To Birmingham"

"The Watsons Go to Birmingham," a Hallmark Channel movie in the making, takes place in Michigan and Alabama but has been filming here in metro Atlanta. It wraps this week. The film is a project of ToniK Productions, founded by award-winning producers Nikki Silver and Tonya Lewis Lee, in conjunction with Walden ...

"Deliverance" (1972): The novel and movie by James Dickey (left) and starring a young Burt Reynolds (right) may not have put north Georgia in the best light, but it opened the way for plenty more 1970s film productions in the state, several of which happened to star Reynolds again.

Connecting the dots in Georgia's filming scene

The Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office during this legislative session officially celebrated the 40th anniversary of Georgia filmmaking. “Deliverance,” starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty, was set and shot in north Georgia and was released in 1972. But the explosive growth in Georgia filmmaking, ...