Inqlings: Cold-case crackers pique CBS
Cold Case was a CBS series about a fictional Philadelphia Police Department squad that probed old murders. Now the real thing might be coming to CBS: a series based on Philly's Vidocq Society, a group of forensic pros who get to the bottom of forgotten crimes. (Remember Marie Noe, the woman who killed her eight children?)
Cold Case was a CBS series about a fictional Philadelphia Police Department squad that probed old murders.
Now the real thing might be coming to CBS: a series based on Philly's Vidocq Society, a group of forensic pros who get to the bottom of forgotten crimes. (Remember Marie Noe, the woman who killed her eight children?)
The network has optioned The Murder Room, a book about the Vidocq Society by former Inquirer reporter Mike Capuzzo. The society says Carol Mendelsohn, a creator and show-runner of the CSI franchise, might write the pilot herself.
The story will feature Vidocq's founders: retired homicide detective William Fleisher and artist Frank Bender, both Philadelphians, and Richard Walter, a psychologist known as the living Sherlock Holmes.
Apprised
A literary prize? How about an ethics award for poet Elyse Fenton, whose collection Clamor was short-listed for an Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award. Fenton pointed out that she moved to Philadelphia in August - about four months after her book was published.
That would make her ineligible under the residency rule. Executive director Sandra Tatman said the Athenaeum, eager to expose Fenton to the masses, would arrange a reading for her.
Awards will be handed out in May to Stephen Fried, winner of the nonfiction prize for Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Restaurant Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West, and Robin Black, winner in fiction for If I Loved You I Would Tell You This.
Ice, ice
You winter-weary cynics surely will predict lots of sun and warmth for the weekend of Feb. 11-13. Manayunk hosts Manayunk on Ice, a free three-day ice carving competition and exhibition sanctioned by the National Ice Carving Association. First event will be a bonfire at 5 p.m. in the Venice Island parking lot at Main and Carson Streets.
Briefly noted
Caroline Manzo of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New Jersey will take listener calls again on WKXW-FM (101.5) at 7 p.m. Thursday. It's streamed at www.nj1015.com.
Philadelphia Casting, helping to gin up a national reality show, is looking for a bar, music venue, or nightclub in danger of closing. By Feb. 10, send the owner's name and contact info, photos, and a brief description of its lameness to project@philacast.com.
Comcast-Spectacor has set up a webcam to allow people to watch the dismantling of the Spectrum and the construction of Philly Live. It's viewable at RememberTheSpectrum.com.
The sports circuit
WIP-AM (610) is importing Takeru Kobayashi, regarded as the world's greatest eater, to act as "international ambassador" at Wing Bowl on Friday at the Wells Fargo Center. Kobayashi will attempt to break what the station calls the unofficial cheesesteak-eating record (48 seconds). Kobayashi will not be eating wings with the contestants.
Nothing unusual when a high school football prospect and his dad sit down to a fancy dinner with a college coach. That was Spencer Reid and Eagles coach Andy Reid at Morton's steak house among a party of 16 last Friday, under the auspices of Temple coach Steve Addazio. Spencer Reid, the youngest of the five Reid kids, has given Temple a verbal commitment.
Action News sportscaster Jamie Apody and Paul Coleman, who announced their engagement last April, have a wedding date: July 9. Guess she'll be excused from the Phillies-Braves game that day.