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ASO’s designs on Rogers not just musical
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The guy who once graced the radio airwaves with “You Decorated My Life” will be performing similar duties at the 2007 Decorators’ Show House & Gardens fund-raiser for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Buzz learned Friday that country singer and interior designer Kenny Rogers will serve as the honorary chair at the 37th annual event hosted by the Atlanta Symphony Associates.
This year’s selected showplace is Whitehall, a massive white-columned Southern beauty, located at 4795 Harris Trail on the corner of Northside Drive.
And unlike a lot of honorary chairs, who have a tendency to take a powder at the actual fund-raiser, Rogers will roll up his sleeves and not only cut the ribbon at the posh April 26 opening night “Magnolias in the Moonlight” preview gala, but he’ll be decorating a room as well. According to event rep Alison King, Rogers and business partner/decorator Jim Weinberg, who co-own Kenji Design Studios, are undertaking the design work on the structure’s family/music room.
The event also will encompass the work of 29 other top Atlanta designers, who will transform the house into a high-end palace in time for ASO-benefiting tours scheduled for April 28 to May 20.
For more info: www.decoratorsshowhouse.org.
‘Love, Lies’ and ratings?
Sticking to the sofa tonight and looking for something sordid? We humbly suggest the “Love and Lies” edition of “48 Hours Mystery” on WGCL. You may recognize some of the characters profiled. CBS is touting that for the first time, a mystery woman who was part of the Barton Corbin saga will speak publicly on the show. You’ll recall that Corbin was the Dacula dentist who pleaded guilty last September to killing his wife, Jennifer Corbin, and his former girlfriend Dorothy “Dolly” Hearn. Authorities said Barton Corbin shot both women in the head, then staged the deaths as suicides. The story was covered by national media and will be the subject of an upcoming book by best-selling true-crime writer Ann Rule.
Reporters from “48 Hours Mystery” interviewed all the major players in the case, including Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter.
CBS News correspondent Peter Van Sant said his company also hired a private detective to help track down Anita Hearn (no relation to Dotty), thought to be a pivotal witness in the murder trial because of her alleged steamy Internet relationship with Jennifer Corbin. Dozens of sexually explicit e-mails show that Jennifer began the relationship with a person she believed was a man named “Christopher.” She later discovered that her online lover was Hearn, a woman.
Jennifer Corbin’s family say they agreed to be interviewed by CBS before they knew that Anita Hearn would be on the show.
The awkwardness begins at 10 p.m.
Shopper Bowl Sunday
If shopping is more interesting to you than the Super Bowl on Sunday, you’ll have an opportunity to engage in your favorite sport in the comfort of your home while the die-hard Colts or Bears fans watch the game. From noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, the online retailer edressme.com is having a “They Watch, You Shop” sale featuring 10-12 dress styles from such designers as Anna Sui, Laundry by Shelli Segal and BCBG. The special frocks will be on sale only during Super Bowl festivities — anywhere from 40 percent to 50 percent off the retail price, then immediately marked back up at 10 p.m. The early spring merchandise from six to eight designers will be available in sizes 2-12. And free shipping is part of the purchase price.
The founder of edressme.com, Joanne Stoner, thought up the idea based on comments from her friends. “We always would go to Super Bowl parties, but we were not into the game,” she said. “We would stand around and end up in the kitchen, eating salsa and chips or cleaning up. Since all of us like to shop together, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do a little online shopping.” And Stoner hinted that she might be adding more dress styles throughout the game.
Uncoupling
Former Alpharetta resident Whitney Houston is attempting to fast-track her divorce from Bobby Brown. Houston, who filed divorce papers in October, requested a default judgment in a document filed Dec. 28 in Orange County, Calif., Superior Court. A checked box on the two-page document indicates that there are “no issues of division of community property” in the divorce.
The document was obtained by the CelebTV.com Web site, which reported it this week. Houston, 43, has asked for custody of the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and that Brown, 37, be allowed visitation rights.
High five
Downloaded ring tones this week
1. Chris Brown Featuring Jay Biz, “Poppin’ “
2. Buckcherry, “Crazy [expletive]”
3. Koji Kondo, “Super Mario Brothers Theme”
4. Nickelback, “Rock Star”
5. Rascal Flatts, “What Hurts the Most”
— Billboard
Celebrity birthdays
Saturday: Comedian Joey Bishop is 89. Actress Blythe Danner is 64. Actor Nathan Lane is 51. Actress Maura Tierney (“ER”) is 42.
Sunday: Actor Conrad Bain (“Diff’rent Strokes”) is 84. Singer Alice Cooper is 59. Country singer Clint Black is 45. Singer Gavin DeGraw is 30.
Contributing: Marylin Johnson, Lateef Mungin and news services
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