Dan Gross: A bachelor party in A.C. for Victorino?
SHANE VICTORINO and Ryan Howard were in a small party that stopped by Dusk, inside Caesars Atlantic City, on Saturday night. Could it have been a bachelor party? On Saturday, the Phillies outfielder marries Melissa Smith in Hawaii. The couple live in Las Vegas during the off-season and have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Kali'a.
SHANE VICTORINO and Ryan Howard were in a small party that stopped by Dusk, inside Caesars Atlantic City, on Saturday night. Could it have been a bachelor party? On Saturday, the Phillies outfielder marries Melissa Smith in Hawaii. The couple live in Las Vegas during the off-season and have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Kali'a.
TMZ.com reports that Berks County baby-daddy Jon Gosselin will attend the wedding. We know that he and the Flyin' Hawaiian are good friends.
Arnold smitten
with Skip's song
Arnold Schwarzenegger says that he's "been roasted by the Friars Club . . . sculpted in salt-water taffsaltwaterH>. [and] had my painting done in jelly beans," but that the birthday song he received from East Falls' Harry Jay Katz "is one of the most creative birthday tributes I have ever received."
Katz asked musician Skip Denenberg to write and record a birthday song for Schwarzenegger, who turned 62 on July 30. In a recent letter to Katz, the California guv said that he had just gotten around to listening to the song but was "very, very grateful." He sent his best to Katz' girlfriend, Debra Renee Cruz, and said that he hopes to see Katz sometime "before we get too old to recognize each other."
Denenberg told us yesterday that he's glad that Schwarzenegger enjoyed the song, and said that he's been an Ah-nuld fan since the early '80s, when he encountered the aspiring actor at Joe Allen's in Los Angeles. "Schwarzenegger lit up the stinkiest cigar you could ever imagine," says Denenberg, who was trying to eat and sarcastically thanked the Austrian for smoking.
Denenberg has never forgotten that Schwarzenegger misunderstood him and reached into his pocket to "graciously"
offer the stranger one of his cigars.
No tickets needed for this dinner
Susan Finkelstein - the Southwest Philadelphia woman arrested by Bensalem police for allegedly offering sex for World Series tickets - and her husband, Jack, had First Friday Shabbas dinner at the Old City Jewish Art Center (119 N. 3rd). After her arrest, Wired 96.5's Chio offered Finkelstein World Series tickets from auto dealer Gary Barbera, and the couple also saw a game at Yankee Stadium with tickets from firsthandtickets.com.
Artist Sharon Wohlmuth, whose work is featured at the gallery, was among the dinner guests, as was former Wing Bowl contestant Hungry Hungry Hebrew, aka attorney Adam Taxin.
The shabbas dinner is free and open to the public. It's held at the center every first friday of the month.
Promotion for former CBS 3 boss
Peter Dunn, former president and GM of CBS 3 and the CW Philly, has been named president of CBS Television Stations, of which there are 29, CBS' president and chief executive, Leslie Moonves,announced yest, rday. Dunn left Philadelphia in 2005 to become president and GM of New York's WCBS-TV. He replaces Tom Kane, who years ago ran WPVI/ 6ABC for a whil6 ABCunn keeps his WCBS title and duties.
Charitably minded
The Police Athletic League's 7th annual Make a Celebrity PAL event takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Diamond Club, in Citizens Bank Park. Among the auction items up for grabs
are a trip to the 2010 ESPN ESPY Awards in Los Angeles, a meal prepared in your home by Buddakan chef Scott Swiderski, and the chance to play golf with former Eagle Jon Runyan.
Don Tollefson, of ESPN 97.5 the Fanatic, returns as auctioneer. His co-hosts are
Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos
and CBS 3 sports director Beasley
Reece.
Tickets are $70 and include open bar and buffet.
Call Lindsay Weiss at 215-291- 9000, ext. 101, or visit makeacelebritypal. org.
Attn: Old-school Philly punks
The Kennel Club of Philadelphia Dog Show takes place this weekend at the Great Expo Center, in Oaks, but many in the city remember a different Kennel Club. That one - the after-hours punk/new- wave club at 12th & Walnut that we were too young to have been to - is celebrating a reunion of sorts Nov. 25 at J.D. McGillicuddy's (421 N. 7th). DJs Bobby Startup, Chip Dish and Danny Kelly will spin. The event features tributes to departed DJs Lee Paris and David Wildman, who ran the club. Admission is $10.
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