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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: No Face, Labs with Abs, Deep Tiki, Meat Men and fuck you Sandy
Local developer Brian O'Neill is remaking this city from the South West on down.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: No Face, Labs with Abs, Deep Tiki, Meat Men and fuck you Sandy
Local developer Brian O’Neill is remaking this city from the South West on down. He’s got the will and he’s got the ways and means. O’Neill also has the focus and force to see a personal project through — the self-publication of a book that his late great mom Peggie O’Neill penned just before she succumbed to cancer last year called Juggle Without Struggle: Five Secrets, Four Weeks, Nine Minutes to Inner Peace. The developer says the book deals with the on-going struggles of single parenting and the spiritual tenacity women have to bear up under the weight of financial troubles and personal goals. On Nov. 2, at 6 p.m., O’Neill hosts a book release celebration at the Philadelphia Country Club that’s open to the public. He’s a good man. She was a smart woman. You should go.
That Cameron Crowe/Emma Stone movie that Philly native Bradley Cooper is attached to make after he finishes his duties next spring on David O. Russell’s next filming-in-Philly ABSCAM flick may just be an older script that Crowe had in his dresser drawer. Word has it that Crowe may be re-working Deep Tiki, a comedy that was supposed to go in front of the cameras in December 2008 with Ben Stiller (instead of Cooper) as a “disgraced U.S. military weapons consultant who is deployed to a dormant base in Hawaii to supervise the launch of an advanced spy satellite as a response to aggression from China.” That’s funny?
Several Jersey boys and their friends on this coast will take part in a hastily booked benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Sandy this Fri., Nov. 2. on all NBC networks (Bravo, CNBC, USA, MSNBC, E!). Look for Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi — along with Billy Joel, Christina Aguilera and Jimmy Fallon — to take part in the televised relief effort with proceeds benefiting the American Red Cross.
Speaking of NBC, the peacock network in collaboration with Will Ferrell will develop the Wilma Theater’s winter production of Assistance by Leslye Headland (Jan. 2-Feb. 3) into a single camera comedy series. Headland’s giddy play is based on his one-time work experience as film producer Harvey Weinstein’s harried assistant.
The Cooking Channel’s Meat Man Pat LaFrieda is bringing his personal custom burger blend (like KFC’s Colonel, he ain’t telling you nothing about his herbs and spices) “Blend 5” to Starr Restaurants next week starting with Walnut Street’s Butcher & Singer. That’s where the Butcher Burger (with English cheddar and friend onions) will reside. Other LaFrieda items can be found at both Continentals, Jones, Route 6 and Parc though I dare say that my fave is at Pod — the charcoal=-rilled umami burger with cabot cheddar, soy ketchup and pickles. LaFrieda will be on hand Mon., Nov. 5, for a happy hour “Meat & Greet” at Butcher & Singer.
Back in the heady days of 2010, director Derek Lindeman (an actor well known for such classics as Mancation) shot his self-penned comedy Calendar Girl (then called Miss December) in Philly with Corbin Bernsen, Gilbert Gottfried, Jerry Blavat and Clerks star Brian O’Halloran. This week it debuts on Comcast On Demand. I can’t believe I missed Corbin Bernsen in town. Man, I slipped up.
If The Residents were a performance art installation-base ensemble they could double for Philly’s No Face. The local No Face Performance Group is usually a pretty frenzied frolicking outfit. Yet for its new work Spaceplay, debuting Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. at AUX (with a special First Friday late show at 11 p.m.), they’ll funnel their freak-out into something they call an “exploration of space, and isolation.” Runs until Nov 4.
Get on board for Andrew Jeffery Wright’s card-stock heavy next project, his Labs with Abs 2013 calendar through Space 1026 that you can pre-order for cheap ($12) before its completion on Nov. 16. AJW’s line-drawn/hand screened edition of 250 can be found here.
WHOWHATWHERE: While original Monster Bash host Mario Lopez was warm and dry in L.A., his replacement, Dancing with the Stars’ prancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy was surely worried about getting out of dodge before Sandy while hanging with the Mix 106.1 crew and sandwich king Tony Luke at Penn’s Landing Caterers. Eagles quarterback Michael Vick and wife Kijafa hit up the Waterworks Restaurant last Friday with another ex-Eagle, Hollis Thomas, dining at another table in the lounge area. Last week’s Dancing with the Bride event at the Philadelphia Museum of Art found none other than one of its headline artists, Jasper Johns, in attendance. Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis stopped by Harvest Seasonal Grill and Wine Bar on Walnut Street during the Philadelphia Film Festival when he wasn’t at the Kimmel Center or Annenberg’s Zellerbach Theater talking up his new Denzel Washington film Flight. Tom Wolfe looked good in white while talking up his new novel Back To Blood at the Free Library last week. But his conversational host, the Philly Inquirer’s John Timpane, kinda looked better still in his own three-piece white outfit. Last weekend’s Powerhouse 30 at the Wells Fargo Center had a pretty active backstage what with Usher holding court in his private dressing room, Danny Garcia, welter weight champion of the world, stopping by and several Eagles (football guys, not Hotel California residents) stopping by to gift Philly’s Meek Mill with an honorary team jacket on the occasion of the rapper’s debut artist disc release, Dreams and Nightmares, this week.
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