Inqlings: Girl's tale becomes TV movie
Remember the story of Delimar Vera, the little girl who was grabbed from her crib in a burning Feltonville rowhouse in 1997 and raised by another woman as her own?
Remember the story of
Delimar Vera
, the little girl who was grabbed from her crib in a burning Feltonville rowhouse in 1997 and raised by another woman as her own?
Sounded like a Lifetime movie.
And so it will be.
Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story
has an Aug. 17 premiere on the network, says West Chester lawyer
Alexander Murphy Jr.
and Philly lawyer
Anthony Cianfrani
, who repped the girl, now 10, and her mother,
Luzaida Cuevas
.
Judy Reyes
(
Scrubs
) will play Cuevas.
Ana Ortiz
(
Ugly Betty
) will play a relative who helps reunite mother and daughter.
A Martinez
will play Angel Cruz, an elected official who helps the mother. (How's this: Ana Ortiz's father is former City Councilman
Angel Ortiz
.)
Anchor shuffle
CBS3, reeling from the
Larry Mendte
scandal after the
Alycia Lane
scandal, is pairing
Chris May
with regular
Susan Barnett
in the nighttime anchor desk "for now," a station rep says.
Some buzz around the station earlier in the week suggested that management might be considering an old head to occupy the male chair to add familiarity. May joined the station only last October.
The presumption is that Mendte, under federal investigation for allegedly reading Lane's private e-mails, won't be back.
In a move similar to what CBS did by bringing in
Bob Schieffer
after
Dan Rather
stepped down, buzz had retirees
Larry Kane
and
Marc Howard
being considered, at least in the short term, to sit with Barnett and provide gray-haired gravitas.
I hear that May and longtime morning guy
Ukee Washington
are being considered for the long term.
Contacted yesterday, Howard chuckled and said he enjoyed retirement. Kane, under contract to CN8 and KYW (1060) and deep into politics and the world at large at
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, said his plate was full but wished his friends at CBS3 well.
Sick bay
Bad time for restaurateur
Neil Stein
: He says he's had his gall bladder and a kidney removed because of cancer, and on his way out of surgery learned that his beloved boxer Striper had to be put to sleep because of health problems.
Michelle Grossman
, due July 9, felt out of breath during her weather segment Sunday morning on NBC10 and cut things short. Doc says she's fine and she's back at work.
Roll 'em
During recent filming of
Marley & Me
near Chadds Ford,
Jennifer Aniston
stayed in a two-bedroom at the Staybridge Suites Wilmington/Brandywine Valley in Glen Mills. One request: She wanted to be left alone.
Danny DeVito
, here to shoot FX's
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
, charmed students from Hallahan High on Tuesday as he strolled Logan Square. Tomorrow's shoot at City Hall will include former Flyers goalie
Bernie Parent
, Eagles
Todd Herremans
,
Omar Gaither
,
Jon Runyan
,
Chris Gocong
,
Dan Klecko
and
Mike Patterson
, and radio's
Preston Elliot
and
Steve Morrison
.
The appearance of
John Zacherle
(also known as Zacherley or Roland on the old
Shock Theater
show) will be on WPHT's
Remember When
show from 10 p.m. to midnight June 14 - not this Saturday, as I wrote the other day.