Police said rapper Waka Flocka Flame was arrested after a handgun was found in his carry-on bag during a security scan at Atlanta’s airport. Atlanta police said the 28-year-old rapper and Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star didn’t have a weapons permit. He was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with carrying a weapon in a prohibited place. He was being held in the Clayton County jail. An initial court appearance was set for Saturday morning. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Mark Howell said agents have found about 1,600 guns so far this year in bags at airport security checkpoints nationwide.
Carol Burnett doesn’t want to brag, but she’s done it with a lot of famous guys. Her first time was with Leslie Nielsen, then Tony Roberts. She did it twice with Charlton Heston, twice with Cliff Robertson, once with Tom Selleck, and once with John Cleese. “Am I leaving anyone out?” the actress asked impishly. “I’ve been awfully busy.” All these men were, of course, Burnett’s co-stars over the years in A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters, in which an actor and actress read aloud letters, cards, birth announcements and notes they’ve sent to one another over decades. This month Burnett returns to Broadway in the show and opposite a familiar face — Brian Dennehy. It will be the third time in a quarter of a century that they’ve played the would-be lovers together onstage. The first time the couple did it was in 1993 in Telluride, Colo. The second time was at Sundance, Utah, aton an outdoor stage. Naturally, it rained. And not just a gentle mist, either. “It was coming down in sheets! The audience stayed,” said Burnett. “I said, ‘What are we going to do?’ And the stage managers came out with umbrellas, one of them holding it over me and the other over Brian. And we did the whole show.” Burnett, 81, replaced Mia Farrow on Saturday, and she and Dennehy pair up until Nov. 8. Burnett said she and Dennehy naturally have a certain chemistrychemistry, and the other couples will bring their own. “It’ll be a completely different dynamic because that’s the way it is with relationships,” she said. Love Letters marks Burnett’s return to the place where her career took off with critical acclaim for her Broadway work in Once Upon a Mattress in 1959. She went on to create her own variety show The Carol Burnett Show and then to films, including A Wedding and The Four Seasons.