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The Happening

still has two more weeks of shooting left, but

M. Night Shyamalan

and fellow filmmakers hosted the thriller's wrap party Saturday night. (The idea: Celebrate while the entire cast is still in town.)

The several hundred revelers at the TPDS party space in Washington Square West knew they were in for something special, apart from the flutes of champagne that greeted them. Call it a sixth sense.

Bruce Willis showed up.

Shyamalan (with wife Bhavna) had invited Willis, his star of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, to join The Happening's crew and cast, including Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, Betty Buckley and Robert Bailey Jr., plus producers Sam Mercer and Jose Rodriguez (with wife Michelle). Shyamalan had black-and-white movies, including Citizen Kane, playing on projectors to help set the mood, said TPDS's Delores Browne. Willis and the Shyamalans closed the place.

The company yesterday struck its set in Plumsteadville, Bucks County. Next stop will be Ridley Creek State Park in Delaware County, followed by interiors on a soundstage at the Navy Yard in South Philly.

Also in local filmdom:

The crews all over Northern Liberties the last few days are with the independent film explicit ills., written by Philly's Mark Webber and starring Rosario Dawson and Paul Franklin Dano. Yesterday, they took over the pizzeria Rustica.

Filming of Baton, a drama loosely based on Abington High grads from the mid-1960s, is on hold till next year, as a producer just had heart surgery. The film had stalled previously over financing.

Main Line singer-songwriter

Lauren Hart

says she used to tell her bass player,

Tony Reyes

: "When you get to the big time, don't forget - you are going to do my record." Reyes landed at Maze Studios in Atlanta, home of hot producer

Dallas Austin

, who has worked with

Joss Stone

,

Gwen Stefani

and

Pink

, and engineer

Carlton Lynn

.

Reyes didn't forget.

Hart just returned from Atlanta, where she recorded her fourth album, the first not recorded in her hometown. "I got a change of pace, change of scenery," says Hart, known more as a folk-rocker. This album, she says, took the " 'excitement' part of my voice. . . . In style, it's a tribute to old-school Philly - a lot of strings and a lot of horns, background voices."

Hart says, "It's a CD in my purse," but lawyers are working on a deal.

Author

Stephen Fried

will read from his well-received

Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry - Inside the Minds of Married Men

(Bantam) at 7:30 p.m. today at the Barnes & Noble at 1805 Walnut St.

Radio wars continue. WBEN (95.7), doubtless reacting to a marketing push by WBEB (101.1), has gone commercial-free from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays.

The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance got an offer yesterday from

Tom Scannapieco

and

Joe Zuritsky

, the men behind the development known as 1706 Rittenhouse Square Street. They're arts fans and they have condos to sell. They're offering $100,000 to any arts/cultural group that refers a buyer before the end of the year. Units in the building are selling for $4 million and up.