Sixty may be the new 40, but Glenn Close doesn’t buy the math. “I have this image that, one day, my body will start melting and there’s nothing I can do about it,” she says with a quick laugh. “You can’t fight gravity forever.” Close doesn’t have much to fight these days. She’s in a happy new marriage, she just competed in her first triathlon, and she has a new FX series that launches tonight. More..
Jay Leno. “Good Day Atlanta.” 99X. Dave FM. Publicity tours can be a grind for celebrities, but Bill Engvall is practically giddy. “I did ‘Leno’ last night, flew straight to Atlanta, got to sleep at 2:30 and woke up at 5, but who am I to complain? This is what I’ve always dreamed about!” he said last week, moments after arriving for lunch at Tamarind Seed Thai Bistro at Colony Square in Midtown. The congenial standup comic — best known until now as part of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with Alpharetta’s Jeff Foxworthy — is getting his moment in the TV sun now that Atlanta’s TBS is giving him his own sitcom under his own name, “The Bill Engvall Show.” The eight-episode run starts tonight at 9. More..
