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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Silver Linings Playbook is Oscar-bound, Mark Wahlberg all over the place, Fond about the great outdoors, and more.
From Philly with love and gore.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Silver Linings Playbook is Oscar-bound, Mark Wahlberg all over the place, Fond about the great outdoors, and more.
Jackie Weaver, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, David O. Russell and Philly’s own Bradley Cooper, come on down: Your locally-lensed Silver Linings Playbook just got nominated for Oscars in every major category, save for song. Too many Jack White tunes. Whee, ya’ll.
Underground Arts bartender/manager Jesse Andreozzi, the possessor of one twirly mustache, is have a Prohibition party on Jan. 16. No big deal, you say? You’ve toted out your apple caps and jodhpurs a-whole-bunch-of-times this season, right? Well this happens to be the anniversary of Prohibition’s start, and Andreozzi’s planning a whole new cocktail menu for Underground Arts including one drink called “Another,” his shaken-stirred blend of Dad’s Hat rye, ginger orange peel syrup, club soda and Peychaud’s bitters. Along with comedian N.A. Poe, era-specific band leader Drew Nugent and Cherry Bomb Burlesque being on board for the event, Andreozzi himself will take the UA stage with his flare bartending death defying routine.
Hey Fond on 11th Street, we see that you’re looking to host outdoor seating. And 600 Washington? You want to put in a pool hall. These are just a few of the things that the South Philly licenses peeps had on their docket at the Jan. 8 public con-fab.
There’s several bits of Philly in the Brooklyn-based HBO series Girls whose second season starts Jan. 13. Locally-reared lady Santigold has the title track on the show’s just-released Girls soundtrack. The DN’s Dan Gross noted that lingerie designer Jenna Leigh Blatstein (Bart’s daughter) put a bra on Girls’ star Allison Williams in the January issue of Vanity Fair. And if you want to visit the set of Girls go to the Lemon Ball at the Marriott Downtown on Jan. 12 to benefit the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. The L Ball honors Marc Vetri, Jeff Michaud and Jeff Benjamin for their noble efforts with their annual Great Chefs Event, which benefits both Alex’s and the Vetri Foundation. Hit up thelemonball.org.
From Philly with love and gore: Suburban producer Carl Mazzocone, a Bryn Mawr native, has the number one picture in America in Texas Chainsaw 3D. He was the guy behind Dumb & Dumberer, Boxing Helena and Repo! The Genetic Opera so he could use a hit, at the very least to fund his next flick, a remake of I Walked with a Zombie. Nice.
The first Theater Exile show of the year — Jason Wells’ The North Plan — finds itself in a totally new location foreign to company CEO Joe Canuso’s cast and crew. Starting Feb. 13, Exile hits up the Latvian Society of Philadelphia on N. Seventh Street at Spring Garden. Azuka occasionally usually the Lat-Soc. Good spot. Plus, they occasionally serve perogies.
Philadelphia favorite (and mine, let’s be honest) David Bowie celebrated his 66th birthday (Jan. 8) by releasing a single and video for his first new song in a decade, “Where Are We Now?” as well as announcing his upcoming album, The Next Day. The damn thing comes out March 12. Here’s a link to the vid and the new tune. Photog Scott Weiner provided me with a photo from Bowie’s 2002 Heathen show at the Tower Theater. Yay that.
We know that Kiehl’s is moving to Liberty Place to give way to a.kitchen’s expanding universe, but I will miss seeing the moisturizing apothecary’s all-windowed slice of 18th & Walnut’s corner.
VH-1 will start airing The Roots’ annual live Fourth of July bash at the Parkway, on, hmm, July 4, on television and via stream at vh1.com. Find my Geoff Gordon cover story and you’ll find that he, along with Questlove, started booking the 2013 outing after the 2012 edition.
WHOWHATWHERE: Unless you lived under a rock this week, you know that Mark Wahlberg was in town to promote his new movie Broken City, at the Prince Music Theater and several radio stations within the Live Nation/Clear Channel complex. The film’s producer and star (as well as director Allen Hughes) got big on-stage introductions from Mayor Michael Nutter and Greater Philly Film org doyenne Sharon Pinkenson. After slapping many a hand in a crowd that extended around the corner from the Prince to the Union League on Broad Street, Wahlberg jumped on stage while Nutter and Pinkenson were winding through their intro. Wahlberg joked that Pinkenson might take Nutter’s job soon to which Nutter joked “nnnnnnnnot yet.” Then the Mayor rifled off the films that Wahlberg shot here: The Italian Job, Shooter, The Happening, and The Lovely Bones. When Nutter left out the Vince Papale Eagles tale that Wahlberg starred in, Pinkenson yelled out Invincible, to which Wahlberg responded “You saved the best for last. If you said The Happening last, that may have been a problem.” With that the Mayor and the film magnate gave Wahlberg a proclamation announcing that he was now an Honorary Philadelphian (“You don’t give that shit out for free,” said a mightily impressed Wahlberg) before turning to the proclamation-less Hughes and saying, “This is the City of Brotherly Love. Consider yourself a cousin.” Nice guy. Another honorary Philly guy, Bruce Springsteen, is the subject of a photo taken in 1976 by George Manney, the drummer and host of the Last Minute Jam. The photo is of the Boss visiting Johnny’s Dance Band at the old Grendel’s Lair on South Street. You can read what Manney and the re-united Dance Band are up to this week at Icepack in print. You on the big broad stage tip should’ve been happy to know that first Smash’s Megan Hilty stopped by the Walnut Street Theatre before The Music Man finished its run. She was here with beau Brian Gallagher who was part of the brief Jekyll and Hyde experience at the Forrest Theatre with Jersey’s own Constantine Maroulis. Maroulis’ history in Philly involves seeing his brother Athan Maroulis play many a gig at the long-defunct Revival in Executive Slacks. Also doing the local grand theater hang, Captain America Chris Evans and girlfriend Minka Kelly hit up Les Misérables’ opening night Philly-love-fest at the Academy of Music. If I had been just a little drunker I would have asked him about the Falcon.
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