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Hello 2007 and a fresh year of gossip! Have you guys gotten over your New Year’s Eve hangovers yet? Did you eat your black-eyed peas and cornbread? How are those resolutions going? I hope the answers are yes, yes and splendidly, thank you, because your Boozie loves you and only wants good things for you. And she also wants you to misbehave because that just makes her love you even more. But anyway, check out what all your fellow insane Mobilians have been up to of late.

My Super Sweet 16

OK. So last issue, right at deadline, we got word there was going to be a super swank sweet 16 party for a GMAC Bowl big wig’s daughter. Well come to find out, it was even better than we could have imagined as it was for the show “My Super Sweet 16” on MTV. Yes, the show that makes every kid on there look like a huge, spoiled brat. Let’ s hope they didn’t that to our girl, who is a student at St. Paul’s.

Anyway, according to sources, her show, which will air next season, was held at the Daphne Civic Center and the theme was “Winter Wonderland.” Everything was white, including the food. I’m assuming her dress was as well, which supposedly she flew to Paris to get.

The highlight of the evening (for the girls at least) was when teen heartthrob/musician Teddy Geiger played, who I had never heard of, but I Googled him and he is cute, so good job. We hear the parents have to submit a budget to be on the show, and our spies say Teddy Geiger alone was tres expensive, so who knows what amount they submitted. But talk about a “super sweet” 16!

More Christmas party shenanigans

Many of our fave area bars and restaurants took the night off for their Christmas gatherings Sunday, Dec. 17, and as you would expect the festivities were well, festive.

One restaurant’s party, at the Attic above Guido’s seems to have been the wildest. We hear one party-goer, clad in a black mock turtleneck, felt compelled to keep pulling his shirt off. And another who apparently had such a good time when he got home he parked in his neighbors’ driveway. He also reportedly couldn’t find his keys that night and kicked in the front door of his house to get in. The next morning when he woke up he had forgotten all of his nocturnal behavior and thought he had been broken into and someone had stolen his truck, which was blocking in his neighbors’ cars.

Our little Attic birdie also said when the owners went to pay for the party they made the check out to Guidos in the amount of Guido’s. Probably not going to be too easy to cash that one. Ahhh, Christmas parties!

Speaking of the Attic, we hear the staff of one of our downtown tourist attractions celebrated their Christmas party there, and someone “cried, fell down the stairs and talked about Jesus.” If only there had been some making out and vomiting, the night would have been complete.

The Guido’s and Callaghan’s crews went to the Florida Bowl for their party. I’m told it was hard to tell who was the “least worst” bowler.

Paris Hilton’s digits in Mobile

One of my best spies gave me Paris Hilton’s cell phone number last week, saying a celebrity with ties to Mobile (No, not Richard Tyson or David “Shark” Fralick) had given it to a friend here. I called it, and it went straight to voicemail, but it did sound like the hotel heiress. Supposedly, when the digits first started making their way around town, she was still answering it, and I’m told some guys have been leaving her messages. I can only imagine what our Alabama boys are telling Miz Hilton. Of course, she’s probably saying, “Who are all these people calling me from this 251 place? That’s not hot.”

American Idol in Mobile and New Orleans’ Mardi Gras

Taylor Hicks will be playing at the Mobile Civic Center Tuesday, Feb. 27 in support of his self-titled debut on Arista records. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. January 13 and are $32.50.

Hicks will also reign as Endymion Grand Marshal 2007 in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb. 17 and will perform at the black tie ball at the Superdome after the Mardi Gras organization’s parade.

Hypnotizingly funny

OK, the Boozester doesn’t generally go in for magicians and the like, but there’s one coming to the Imperial Palace Casino in Biloxi Jan. 26 & 27 you’ve got to see. I know, I know, you’re probably thinking, “Boozie, we’ve seen that big ad on the back of this paper! You’re just being a ‘ho for the money.” And most of the time I’d agree I am a ho for the money, but I’ve seen Anthony Cools before and it is completely outrageous.

When I saw him a couple of years ago, he hypnotized about 25 volunteers – DO NOT volunteer! – and proceeded to have them do some of the most hilariously embarrassing stuff. I think even I blushed. I don’t want to ruin anything, but at one point he had the fully dressed participants believing they were trying out for a porno and that the chair in front of them was a totally hot chick or dude waiting to get it on. It was unbelievable. He also had a few chicks running around with their bras on the outside of their shirts.

The embarrassed looks on the participants’ faces after he let them out of their trances let me know they weren’t making it up. I’ll definitely be going back to check it out.

Swanky Fish Photog headed to Port City

We hear the Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation will be one of the first groups to hold a swank gala in the restored Battle House Hotel once it reopens. “Cocktails with the Critters” is scheduled for May 3 in the Crystal Ballroom of the Battle House. The guest of honor will be David Doubilet, who is one of the world’s most famous underwater photographers and whose work is often featured in National Geographic. The next night, Doubilet will offer a presentation on his work in the hotel’s Moonlight Ballroom. The whole thing sounds pretty exciting. Slap on your best wetsuit and head on down.

Well kids, that’s all I got for the first Boozie offering of 2007. I hope you enjoyed. Just remember, whether rain or shine, dramatic or scandalous or just some plain ol’ Paris Hilton lovin’, I will be there. Ciao.

Boozie Beer Nues is Lagniappe social butterfly. Contact her at boozie@lagniappemobile.com.

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