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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: LiLo was here. Our tax credits fly the Coop. Hemsworth likes bars. Jerry's Bar is re-duxing. Monkees eat D'Angelo's.
"Pennsylvania is out of tax credit money," says Sharon Pinkenson.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: LiLo was here. Our tax credits fly the Coop. Hemsworth likes bars. Jerry’s Bar is re-duxing. Monkees eat D’Angelo’s.
Before we hit WHOWHATWHERE, let us thank Lindsay Lohan for not punching anyone in the face or ramming into our cars during her time here to see-and-hear her man Max from the Wanted at Wells Fargo Center’s Q102 Jingle Ball last night after a stay at the Omni Hotel. There was no attempt to keep LiLo’s visit a secret. Her arrival was announced from the stage and the station took a photo that wound up on TMZ. Flaunt it.
Philly’s good film news is that Paranoia has been back for a week with filming having resumed on Monday. So far, Liam Hemsworth and co. have lensed at the long unused Tangerine (for a club bar scene), the Four Seasons (a hotel bar scene) and Rogue’s Gallery (a bar bar scene). Solid stuff. Sadly though, Greater Philly Film Org doyenne Sharon Pinkenson tells me that David O. Russell and Bradley Cooper’s next film (after Silver Linings Playbook) the one Cooper told us in August during The Words premiere at the Prince would start filmin in spring 2013 (the ABSCAM flick with Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Jeremy Remer) — is now headed for Boston. “Pennsylvania is out of tax credit money,” exclaims Pinkenson. Is there no Kickstarter we can cobble together for this?
Speaking of getting money together for something worthy: Philly’s Ropeadope record/apparel label, along with the Nelson Riddle Foundation, is looking to benefit musicians of New Jersey and New York hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy. Ropeadope did the same in 2005 with its “renew Orleans” program which raised nearly $100,000 for musicians hit by Hurricane Katrina. Buy a shirt and proceeds go to “renew jersey” and “renew york” relief efforts.
If you’re tired of staring longingly into the, hmmm, eyes, of that Playboy snap of John Bolaris’ fiancée, here’s a topless snap of another Philly lass, Pink, from Bryan Adams’ first photography book, Exposed. [NSFW, obviously.]
Hurry. If you get to Jake’s Sandwich Board on S. 12th, today, Thursday, you can watch Destination America’s United States of Bacon’s directors shooting Jake’s Turbacon sandwich (with turkey and grilled bacon). It ain’t an ABSCAM movie but it’s something.
Give a hardy hello to Greg Harris who’ll take on the gig of CEO of the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland this January. He used to have a piece of the Philadelphia Record Exchange (so does that mean my trade-in credits are no good, Greg?) and the Buck County homeboy worked at Cooperstown’s National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum as development VP. Batter up.
Another local in a new post closer to home is Sue Daugherty, MANNA’s chief operating officer for a dozen years, just got appointed executive director now that Richard Keaveney is stepping down from his post. Tonight at Broad Street’s Hamilton Hall at the University of the Arts, MANNA will celebrate the good Keaveney did, the good Daugherty will do and all that is great about the Philadelphia based non-profit.
More goodwill: Filmmaker Judd Apatow, in town recently to promote This is 40, donated big time to 93.3 WMMR’s Preston and Steve’s annual Campout for Hunger. He hooked up the radio duo with $10,001 to top Food Network host Robert Irvine’s $10,000 donation. Pirate Pat Croce, Ed Rendell, comic actor Hal Sparks, Bernie Parent and Gaslight Anthem singer Brian Fallon gave, too.
Top Chef/Life After Top Chef/Death after Top Chef contestant/star Spike Mendelsohn, after drinking it up at McGillin’s last weekend, is tweeting that he wants “3,000 square feet” of restaurant space for a next Good Stuff Eatery of his. Realtors?
The legendary Ukrainian old man’s bar, Jerry’s (behind Standard Tap) on Laurel Street, which closed in 2011, is finally nearing its re-construction. We’re hearing that the counters are slick, the bar is long and that charcuterie is the order of the day. Is contractor Bill Proud still behind the re-hab? Oh Bill?
WHOWHATWHERE: Destiny’s other child, Kelly Rowland and some VIP pals whooped it up in a suite at Delilah’s Saturday night, table dances and bottle service all around until they headed to Zee Bar. The ADL’s 2012 Americanism Award Gala was held at Vie and we heard it was a humdinger: Barry Morrison, ADL regional director and honoree Rosemary Turner closed the place down. President Barack Obama was on a serious mission — tax reform, financial cliffs — when he spoke before The Rodon Group in Hatfield, PA. Then there was Alex Clare who was not serious at all while visiting Radio 104.5’s iHeart Radio Performance Theater in Bala Cynwyd. Last week, Growing Up Gotti namesake Victoria Gotti, daughter of famed late mob boss John Gotti, spent last Thursday filming at the Trump Taj Mahal for a new reality series as yet to be titled. And hey hey, The Monkees — Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork ate at D’Angelo’s on S. 20th Street with guest Penn Jillette who hung out at the Monkees’ Keswick Theater show.
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