Dan Gross: 'Marley & Me' is under way

AS WE PREDICTED yesterday, "Marley & Me" has already started shooting at the

Inqwaster

, where it hadn't been expected until today. Late yesterday afternoon,

Owen Wilson

, who plays former

Inqwaster

columnist

John Grogan

, was filmed entering the building at Broad & Callowhill. More filming is scheduled today in the office of editor

Bill Marimow

. Actor

Clarke Peters

, who played Detective Lester Freamon on "The Wire," will portray Wilson's boss, possibly former

Inqwaster

editor

Walker Lundy

.

Peters was also seen in the Inqwaster/Daily News building yesterday. Jennifer Aniston, we're told, is in town but hasn't yet been spied working on the film. Wilson and "Grey's Anatomy" hunk Eric Dane drew large crowds of onlookers while shooting at Broad & Walnut yesterday.

We've posted several other pictures from the shoot, courtesy of John Taggart, on PhillyGossip.com.

* Speaking of Marimow, he was the

keynote speaker at yesterday's induction of stellar publicist Nina Zucker into the Philadelphia Public Relations Association Hall of Fame. As three-time Emmy winner Bill Jolly played "Philadelphia Freedom," Zucker, the pint-size publicity pro, was dragged from her seat in the Kimmel Center's Commonwealth Plaza to dance by Philadelphia Gay News Publisher Mark Segal. Mayor Nutter, there to honor Zucker, took over and showed off some of his smooth dance moves. Gov. Rendell was there, and gave a funny speech, but didn't cut a rug.

McBride's rockin' a motorcycle

Best-selling author James McBride ("The Color of Water") rolled into town yesterday on his new black Honda 750 Shadow Spirit motorcycle do some research for an upcoming book project. McBride, who lives in Bucks County and has an office in the Big Apple, where he is a distinguished writer in residence at NYU, lunched at Pine Street Pizza (12th & Pine). The author and jazz musician, who wrote the screenplay for Spike Lee's forthcoming "Miracle at St. Anna" based on his novel, says the movie debuts Oct. 10 at the Toronto Film Festival. Meanwhile, his latest, "Song Yet Sung," is getting rave reviews.

Penguins waddlin' around

Penguins chairman Mario Lemiuex sprung for dinner for 11 guests at Davio's (111 S. 17th) before Tuesday's Flyers game. The hockey legend and company went for filet mignon, cheesesteak spring rolls and crab cakes washed down with a few magnums of high-priced vino. Penguin folks such as Hal Gill, Pittsburgh color analyst and former Penguin Bob Errey, Phil Bourque, Darius Kasparaitis and a few others made it over to McGillin's Olde Ale House (1310 Drury) just before their 1 a.m. curfew yesterday morning.

They were friendly, we hear. Not friendly were the unidentified flock of Penguins who were escorted by Westin Hotel security and Philadelphia police officers to Jimmy John's (44 S. 17th), where they picked up lunch yesterday. The players ignored a small group of Penguins fans who waited to greet them. Not heckling Flyers fans, mind you, but their own fans, in a foreign city. That's low.

Colbert plugs Philly for GPTMC

Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert taped a few spots for the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation to be shown today for the Travel Industry Association of America's National Tourism Week. Colbert taped "The Colbert Report" from Penn's Annenberg Center for a few days leading up to the April 16 Democratic debate at the National Constitution Center. Colbert jokes: "Over 26 million people visit the City of Brotherly Love each year . . . and they were all ahead of me in line at the Liberty Bell." His words are to be

posted today online at gophila.com/pressroom.

T.O. talks about porn-site photo

Terrell Owens told 94 WYSP's Kidd Chris yesterday that it was "unfortunate and inappropriate by that Web site and the people affiliated with it to put me in a porn site cause they took a picture while I was walking in the background." We told you recently that Owens had turned up in the background of a picture on BangBros.com, a Miami- based porn Web site. The site later cropped him out of the photo in which he appeared, which featured neither sex nor nudity. *

Visit PhillyGossip.com for Dan's latest stories. Have a tip? Call 215-854-5963, or e-mail grossd@phillynews.com. For recent columns, visit go.philly.com/dangross.