ICE CUBES: Danza, Cash, Charo, The Rat and I'm a PC

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ICE CUBES: Danza, Cash, Charo, The Rat and I'm a PC

POSTED: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 2:00 PM

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Since 2008, Icepack has been touting chef Shane Cash — griller extraordinare, nephew of the Man in Black — for his skills. He opened Butcher & Singer and SquareBurger and is the exec chef at SRO's events. Now he's the big cheese at Hamilton N.J.'s Rat's Restaurant. Top Chef D.C. winner Kevin Sbraga held the spot before Cash but we know Shane'll make it his own. Looking forward to reporting as much about Cash's Rat cooking soon. If you thought it was hot that Stephen Bluhm — now relocated to the banks of the Hudson — came back to Philly last weekend to sing his original music for CafÃ©, home-town director Marc Erlbaum's minor key tragicomic relationship film shot in West Philly and Bala Cynwyd, then you'll be psyched to see who Erlbaum has next: Upper Darby's Jamie Kennedy. The comic, who shot the moody flick in 2009 with his now-ex-girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt, comes home to join Erlbaum and the film's producer J. Andrew Greenblatt during one of Greenblatt's Philadelphia Film Festival screenings Oct 21 at the Prince Music Theater. Right after Kennedy and Erlbaum leave, M. Night Shyamalan comes in to chat about the 10th-anniversary of Unbreakable, screen it, then talk more. He loves to talk. Buy in at filmadelphia.org. Know who else loves to talk? Charo. The Latin bombshell just got signed to join the cast of Girl Talk: The Musical after her Off-Broadway run with it. Figure Nov. 16 -21 at the Kimmel's Innovation Studio for the cuchi-cuchi. Damon Feldman doesn't care if you're a man, a woman or a transvestite: If you don't sell tickets, prepare to get swatted. Apparently that's what happened at South Philly Bar & Grille between the Celebrity Boxing promoter and Trans-Diva Michaela Vasilakos. YouTube it for details if you dare/care/whatever. Not only does the Philly-filmed A&E show Teach get a new song this week (Danni Rosner's "In The City" debuts Oct. 22) , it's star, Tony Danza, Gov. Rendell, Mayor Nutter, and Comcast's Brian Roberts, appear at the Baptist Temple on TU campus Oct 25 for a chat about the Education Department's TEACH campaign. Sounds dull, doesn't it? I mean, how far is Dannza going to take this ed-u-tain-ment schtick? WHOWHATWHERE: Didn't need spies for this: Late night chat show host/comedian Craig Ferguson outed his own hangs-out in Philly on Twitter: cheesesteaks at Pat's, lunch at Marathon, a stop at the Liberty Bell with photos included. Thanks for doing the legwork, Mr. Ferguson. See you in Reading. Now, this was funny. I wound up not being able to hit the Josh Shelov's Philly-filmed The Best and Brightest at the Ritz Five (another PFF screening) due to a sudden work commitment last Saturday. Shelov and TBAB stars Bonnie Somerville, Jenna Stern, Peter Serafinowicz and John Hodgman were there. They hit Tweed and Red Sky from some accounts. So I was sad I missed them, Hodgman especially, the wry author and Daily Show commentator. Well, I didn't miss him after all. No sooner than I was popping into Bobbi Booker's wild memorial event at Bob & Barbara's for the late Freddie Sutton, in walks Hodgman and Serafinowicz. The TBAB stars only stayed for a drink but they inadvertently mingled with over 80 memorializers packed into B&B's like Sen. Vincent Hughes, Big Pictures Rich Wolff, manager/producer Lawrence Bracey and the elusive venue owner, Jack. "A couple dozen of us then went over to Pen & Pencil where Fred's portraits are on still on display," says Booker. Even from the great beyond Sutton throws a mean party. Hodgman was heard to have hit the Mutter the next day. The Union League is having some fun this week. After it got a visit from near-scapegoat Colin Powell for a private function, the UL will host a Studio Incamminati gala on Friday where a nude painting of Marisa Tomei (by Nelson Shanks) will hang at a benefit for the art salon. The ball also highlights Shanks' new works that'll hang at St. Petersburg's Russian Museum and Moscow's Russian Academy of Arts. (Info and tix 215-592-7910). Apparently Philly's dead like craft beer too. Laurel Hill Cemetery hosts a homebrew competition on Oct. 23 for your best pre-Prohibition style beer. The entries will be served during a tour of the graves of the great brewing families buried there with beer historian Richard Wagner as your guide. Speaking of the deceased, the late great Philadelphia soul song legend Solomon Burke (see my 2002 interview with him here) will have a funeral service in Gardena, CA. that will be streamed on the internet at thekingsolomonburke.com and simulcast at 1 p.m. on Oct 22 at Sharon Baptist Church in Wynnefield, PA. Amen to that.

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