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Paula cooks with two Emmys
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Savannah restaurateur-Food Network icon-ham hawker-magazine namesake-author Paula Deen can add another title to her ever-growing résumé: Emmy winner.
Yup, at last week’s 34th annual Creative Arts & Entertainment Emmy Awards presented at Hollywood & Highland Ballroom in Hollywood, Deen’s Food Network show “Paula’s Home Cooking” snagged Emmys for outstanding lifestyle host and for outstanding lifestyle program. Said Deen in a statement: “This has clearly been the most surreal week for me. I am grateful for this honor and for everyone on my team who worked so hard to make this possible. I feel truly blessed.”
Paula’s Home Cooking” executive producers Gordon Elliott, Jessica Shweky and Mark Schneider, along with producer Aimee Rosen, were also honored.
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A (ALMOST) DAME
Christiane Amanpour has spent years reporting from the world’s worst hotspots and coaxing meaningful talk from combative world leaders as the chief international correspondent for Atlanta-based CNN. So it’s hard to imagine anything throwing her for a loop. But that’s apparently what happened over the weekend when she found out Queen Elizabeth II had named her a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
“I am stunned and delighted to be recognized in this wonderful way for my work,” said Amanpour, born of British/Iranian parentage. “And, of course, for being a true Brit.”
According to the list released on the occasion of the queen’s official birthday, Amanpour was selected “for services to journalism.” Established in June 1917 by King George V, the CBE is one of five medals that make up the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In order of seniority, it’s one level below the “knight”/ “dame” designations. Amanpour is one of the few journalists ever to be awarded the CBE.
Still, Buzz was more impressed when the globe-trotting journalist finally appeared, playing herself as the long-talked-about heroine of fictional aspiring reporter Rory Gilmore, in the series finale of “Gilmore Girls” on CW this spring …
SKIRT!, SHOTS, CIGS AND NOSTALGIA
The first-year anniversary bash for Skirt! magazine had a decided vintage vibe to it the other night at Trois in Midtown. Pretend airline stewardesses from the glamorous (albeit smoke-filled) age of air travel greeted the soiree’s approximately 375 guests who were there to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Skirt! magazine in Atlanta. The 1960s-attired attendants attempted to ply guests with cigarette trays, filled with varieties of smokes, and kept busy snapping old-school Polaroids of the partyers. Concentrics Restaurants’ Todd Rushing offered glasses of champagne and spiked watermelon gazpacho shooters, compliments of chef Jeremy Lieb. The party was so popular, Rushing ended up keeping the bar open an extra hour. Guests included WSB anchor Jovita Moore, Q100’s Jessica and Jeff Dauler, Star 94’s Vikki Locke and jewelry designer Mark Edge, Dave FM’s Will Davis, CNN’s Betty Nguyen and Brianne Davis, Skirt! editor Stephanie Davis’ actress sister whose visit to Atlanta was suddenly cut short. While here, Brianne received a call back for the soon-to-be-cast role of Supergirl on the CW’s “Smallville.” We’re told that the character is slated to appear in up to half of next season’s episodes of the CW superhero drama.
(Skirt! operates under an Atlanta licensing agreement with Cox Newspapers, which owns the AJC.)
OVERSCENE
“As the World Turns” actress Robin Mattson dining with a friend at Watershed Restaurant in Decatur over the weekend. We’re told that the daytime vet, who’s also had stints on “General Hospital,” “All My Children” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” enjoyed chef Scott Peacock’s sweet corn soup and fresh Florida grouper.
STORK REPORT: IT’S A BOY!
Smyrna-reared Oscar winner Julia Roberts welcomed her third child, a boy named Henry Daniel Moder, on Monday.
Henry, born in Los Angeles, weighed 8 1/2 pounds, said Roberts’ publicist, Marcy Engelman.
“All of the Moders are doing great,” Engelman said in a statement.
Roberts, 39, and her husband, 38-year-old cinematographer Danny Moder, have 2-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus.
Roberts voiced the wise spider in the 2006 film adaptation of “Charlotte’s Web.” She’ll next be seen in the drama “Charlie Wilson’s War,” directed by Mike Nichols, which is scheduled for release later this year.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actress Gena Rowlands is 77. Actress Phylicia Rashad is 59. Singer Ann Wilson of Heart is 57. Actress Kathleen Turner is 53. Country singer Doug Stone is 51. Singer-dancer-choreographer-“American Idol” judge Paula Abdul is 45. Actress Robin Tunney is 35. Actor Paul Dano (“Little Miss Sunshine”) is 23.
Contributing: Jill Vejnoska and news services
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