Inqlings | Marzano's host post at MLB.com
John Marzano has made the big leagues again. The South Philly-bred Central High and Temple grad, who caught for 10 seasons in the American League, has landed a baseball talk show on MLB.com, the Internet site of Major League Baseball.
John Marzano
has made the big leagues again.
The South Philly-bred Central High and Temple grad, who caught for 10 seasons in the American League, has landed a baseball talk show on MLB.com, the Internet site of Major League Baseball.
Marzano, 44, starts 10 a.m. Monday on his two-hour weekday call-in show out of New York, he said yesterday in a text-message interview. (He was sick in bed yesterday and could not speak.)
"All baseball all the time," he texted, feverishly. "So easy to get guests."
Marzano will have to cut back on his local media profile. He'll host only the weekend editions of SportsNet's Phillies Post Game Live, and will have a more limited role on the morning show of WIP (610). "We knew John was a rising star when we hired him," says WIP station manager Marc Rayfield.
Girl's gone filed
Joe Francis
, the Vegas videographer whose "Girls Gone Wild" series features nubile young things in various states of public undress, is facing another lawsuit filed by one of his stars.
This one has a local angle.
Northeast Philly's Sabina Mananova alleges in Common Pleas Court that she was taped flashing her breasts "on at least two occasions" during a "GGW" event at Chrome nightclub on Delaware Avenue in March 2003.
She was 15 at the time, she says.
Mananova's suit says a "GGW" crew member also led her to a back room where at his request she kissed another underage girl. Before leaving the club, her suit says, she instructed the crew not to use her footage.
But it wound up on Girls Gone Wild: Endless Spring Break, Vol. 4, she says.
The civil suit, filed by Rosemary Pinto of Feldman & Pinto, seeks damages and names Francis and his companies, as well as Chrome. Reps for Francis and Chrome did not respond to calls.
Francis, 33, is facing criminal charges in connection with a 2003 shoot during spring break in Florida. Among the charges are two counts of using a minor in a sexual performance and two counts of conspiring to use minors in a sexual performance.
He got directness, all right
A mole at Philadelphia Magazine reports a great clamor from the other side of editor
Larry Platt's
door last Friday. Office occupants were Platt, mayoral hopeful
Dwight Evans
, power lawyer
Carl Singley
, and Evans aide
Maurice McDaniel
. Evans didn't look happy after, my source says. The mag, profiling each candidate, has an Evans feature by
Greg Gilderman
up for April.
Why the yelling? McDaniel would not say. Neither would Platt, who termed the meeting off the record. "It was [Evans'] chance to express his displeasure with how he thinks the magazine has been approaching the story," Platt said, declining to be specific. "My respect grew for Dwight because he is very direct. I like directness."
Briefly noted
The March 27 edition of the Advocate, the national gay mag, names Washington Square West as one of the best places to live, describing it as an "up and coming gay enclave" with a "richness of diversity and a sense of renaissance." The Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus has gotten approval to add the rainbow flag to the bottom of the street signs in the gayborhood; they'll be erected by the end of March.
Football hero Emmitt Smith, in town for business with his wife, Patricia, dropped a grand yesterday on Rocawear clothes and Coach shoes and sneakers at the Center City Macy's. He sought Gucci sneakers, so his salesman generously steered him to Boyds.
KYW Newsradio (1060) is still advertising itself as being "on Independence Mall," even though it moved off the mall last week to 400 Market St. "It's only like 50 feet away," says station head David Yadgaroff.
Keep the engagement ring, or give it back? A poll attached to my recent item on a lawsuit filed by 6ABC anchor Monica Malpass' ex-fiance takes sides chromosomally - 70 percent of male respondents said she should return it, while 20 percent said she should keep it; among females, 51 percent thought she should keep the $78,000 bauble, while 42 percent said it should go back. The poll was unscientific: Of the 2,782 respondents, 6 identified their sex as "I'm both / neither / not sure / none of the above."