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ICE CUBES: Muscling In

POSTED: Friday, October 22, 2010, 8:53 PM

Filed Under: Critical Mass | Ice Cubes | Movies Film Fest

Darren Finizio

You saw it here first, now here's the rest: In his time behind the mic, Darren Finizio has been a Marc Bolan-like starchild folksinger, a weight lifting Muscle Factory man, a host of his own YouTube show (Darren's Basement), and the Hoppy from Hoppy The Frog. He's been at the center of the porn-metal Ass Bandits/Sperminator axis, a Paraplegic, the Well-Hung Man, and the subject of Marc Brodzik's first documentary, My Name Is Darren. To this date, he has yet to have become a part of the Pepsi generation that fills the Piazza at Schmidts â until now, until 3 p.m. this Sat., Oct. 23. "I'm still singing folk songs and need to play for people flesh to flesh like the old days," says the ultimate outside artist before sending me his newest "perverse" YouTube enterprises. Along with talking about his eternally burning desire to become a rock star ("where's all the good stuff that Satan promised me?"), Finizio lays out Muscle Factory's plans for shock and awe at the Piazza — kinda. "Muscle Factory will only perform new material and there will be no musical content in the newer material. People may hate me for it. So be it. You have to evolve or you become another relic." No fly will ever land on Finizio, that's for sure. Darren — one of them — has upcoming November shows at the Troc's Balcony following this Piazza gig. But make sure you catch Muscle Factory outdoors to see and hear what the future of Finizio might be. WHOWHATWHENWHERE: Never before did Philadelphia natives/celebutantes Jamie Kennedy and M. Night Shyamalan figure they'd be sharing a stage. But there they were, one right after the other at the Prince Music Theater when the 19th Philadelphia Film Festival debuted the locally shot CafÃ© with a Q&A starring its producer J. Andrew Greenblatt (the PFF's boss too), director/writer Marc Earlbaum and star Kennedy — followed by the 10th anniversary celebration and screening of Unbreakable with M. Night. "No one ever thought to cast me as a drug dealer, so that was a first," says Kennedy of his diabolical role in the tragicomic CafÃ©. "Plus this was my first kosher movie." Lacheim. For Shyamalan's part, he hold me that he missed the innocence of his pre-Sixth Sense days. "I had been around for two films that nobody saw by the time of Sixth Sense so I definitely lost a lot of my initial innocence. That's something I'd actually love to get back, that feeling of filmmaking and writing when it wasn't so much of a job, without so many expectations."

Scott Weiner 2010

Andrew Greenblatt, M. Night Shyamalan, Bhavna Vaswani & Sharon Pinkenson

Scott Weiner 2010

Marc Earlbaum and Jamie Kennedy

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