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Eddie George, Mini-Me are flameworthy, baby
Today is the day for the big ''Only in America, You Can Be the Star!''
contest to live large Wednesday for the CMT Flameworthy Awards.
So go to the Weekend section right now to enter!
You're still here. Well, good. I'll tell you some more about the contest,
where, first of all, you and a friend will join me in VIP seats for the
music videos awards show to be held at Gaylord Entertainment Center. (You
also can buy tix through Ticketmaster if you don't win.)
And this year's show will be pretty wacky. Among the presenters: Verne
J. Troyer, Mini-Me in Austin Powers films, as well as Trading
Spaces carpenter stud Ty Pennington, who appears in Cyndi
Thomson's latest video, and Titan Eddie George.
The winners also get to meet Brooks & Dunn and then take
the same shopping trip that show performers and presenters get through
the Backstage Creations goody room. Among the things in the goody room:
Wilson leather bags, Nautica jeans, Baltazar belts and guitar straps, Frye
boots, Isabella Gianna hand-beaded bracelets and Bosley hair products.
NOW you can go to the Weekend section and enter today!
Eminem sells 1.3 million copies of his new album
And you thought controversy didn't sell.
Eminem's The Eminem Show sold an amazing 1.3 million,
which was double the total of the rest of the top 10, in its first week
of release. In fact, it sold 11 times that of the No. 2 album, by P.
Diddy.
It was the fifth-highest debut week, behind albums by 'N Sync, Backstreet
Boys and yes, Eminem himself. He sold 1.8 million copies of The
Marshall Mathers LP in its first week.
Dartmouth: Controversial day in the neighborhood
Seems some students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire are unimpressed
that Mr. (Fred) Rogers will be their commencement speaker this weekend,
the AP reports.
''I had hoped for someone more awe-evoking,'' said Chris Moore, a graduating
philosophy major. ''Some secretary of the U.N., or (Rudolph) Giuliani,
or a human rights leader.''
Past speakers there have included President Clinton, Sen.
George Mitchell and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.
Guess Fred Rogers doesn't stack up.
''It's like Barney the dinosaur speaking at our graduation,''
history major Michael Weiss complained.
Morsels
• Web sites report the Goo Goo Dolls and Third Eye Blind
hit AmSouth Amphitheatre Sept. 2. No one from the venue returned a call
yesterday.
• Chad Brock and Craig Morgan joined the indie label Broken Bow Records.
Chad's first album will be out in August, Craig's in September.
• Prosecutors dropped drug charges against Dionne Warwick after
she agreed to do a drug-treatment program and make a $250 donation to charity.
She was busted in Miami in May when airport security said they found marijuana
inside her lipstick container.
• Those media dogs! Reporters gathered yesterday at Castle Leslie, a
hotel on the border of Northern Ireland, after the owner said Paul McCartney
and his fiancee, Heather Mills, would have a wedding reception there
next week.
Gimme. Here's how: phone, 259-8073; fax, 259-8057; e-mail, brad@tennessean.com;
address, 1100 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn. 37203.
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