Dan Gross: Jamie Kennedy exposes himself
UPPER DARBY'S Jamie Kennedy will show viewers what his new girlfriend, Jennifer Love Hewitt, has become familiar with when the comic actor bares all in his new film "Finding Bliss."
UPPER DARBY'S Jamie Kennedy will show viewers what his new girlfriend, Jennifer Love Hewitt, has become familiar with when the comic actor bares all in his new film "Finding Bliss."
The comedy, featuring Leelee Sobieski, Denise Richards and Kristen Johnson, premieres April 7 at the 14th Annual Gen Art Film Festival in New York.
Kennedy and Hewitt appear together in "Ghost Whisperer," and Kennedy says they're in love.
Scott shouts out ex-DNerSoulful songbird Jill Scott gave a shout-out to her friend Mister Mann Frisby during an interview Tuesday on Steve Harvey's syndicated morning show, heard here on 105.3 (WDAS-FM).
Scott and fiance Lil' John Roberts, her Philly-raised drummer, are about to have their first baby, and Harvey asked if she was going to name the baby something odd, citing singers like Erykah Badu who have chosen unusual names for their children.
Deciding to tease a friend who has an unusual name of his own, Scott told Harvey she was thinking about "Frisby, or maybe Mister, or maybe Mister Frisby."
Frisby, a former Daily News reporter now living in Los Angeles, says that he was awakened at 5:45 a.m. by an East Coast friend calling with the news and that he started getting texts from other friends seconds later.
While working here, Frisby, who turns 34 today, was one of the first people to write about Scott, and the pair remain close friends. Frisby, author of "Holla Back, But Listen First: A Life Guide for Young Adults," assures that she was only kidding about naming the baby after him.
Kidd Chris to host online showKidd Chris says he'll launch an Internet radio show at KiddShow.com at the end of May.
Next week, the Web site relaunches with audio and links. Chris says the only way people will ever hear his show the way he wants them to is to run it online anyway. He was fired in May after a guest performed a racist song.
* Speaking of Kidd Chris, 'YSP staffer Tommy Avallone, known as Rock Hard Killa on the show, premieres his new film, "Community College," which he wrote, directed and co-stars in, at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Trocadeo (1003 Arch).
Comedian Rev. Bob Levy hosts the screening. Admission - $5 at the door - is only for those 18 and older. Levy has a cameo in the film about four friends who fear their favorite bar is about to close.
Scotty Schwartz from "A Christmas Story," and "The Toy" appears in the film, as do Rich Cronin from LFO and VH1's "Mission: Man Band," and Michael Ray Bower, who played Donkey Lips on Nickelodeon's "Salute Your Shorts." For more info, visit communitycollegesucks.com.
Bonaduce buys Old City condo94 WYSP's Danny Bonaduce just closed on an Old City condo. We're told the unit is close to 2,400 square feet and sold for $399,000. The apartment is a stone's throw from the station's studio. Bonaduce and girlfriend Amy Railsback have been living at the Benjamin Franklin House since November.
Bookbinder's staff fired by textLocal customers who bought gift certificates to Old Original Bookbinder's (125 Walnut) online at restaurant.com received e-mails yesterday asking them to pick a different restaurant.
We reported this week that the landmark seafood house, which opened in 1865, had closed, possibly for good. Staffers were not notified that the restaurant was closed due to "mechanical emergencies," as its voice mail says, but some have received text messages from managers telling them they're out of a job.
Out and about"Law Abiding Citizen" star Gerard Butler didn't drink much, but his pals enjoyed a few bottles of Grey Goose at Pearl (1904 Chestnut) Saturday night.
* Speaking of "LAC," the guy
who has been seen walking around Rittenhouse Square with a scarf covering his face is Jamie Foxx, trying to be unrecognized.
* Dave "The Hammer" Schultz dined Tuesday at Positano Coast (2nd & Walnut) with guests to raise money for Katie's Krusaders, a children's-cancer charity named in memory of Katie Ann Duffin. The seafood and pasta dinner was paired with wines from Schultz's new collection of NHL label wines.
New shows for Steve Trevelise610 WIP's Steve Trevelise is promoting a show called "The Night the Music Lived" April 3 at the Broadway Theater in Pitman, N.J. It features Bennett Dunn, who starred last year in "The Buddy Holly Story" at the Media Theater, and performers playing the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Trevlise opens with some comedy. Tickets are $30 at thebroadwaytheatre.org.
Speaking of Trevelise, he's hosting overnights from 1 to 5 Saturday mornings and 2 to 6 Sunday mornings. The People Paper's Chuck Darrow is doing an Atlantic City segment at 1:25 a.m. Saturdays. Darrow's band, Nasty Habits, is opening for Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes Saturday at the Scottish Rite in Collingswood, N.J. *
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