Come back, Shane
The Phillies' own "Flyin' Hawaiian,"
Shane Victorino, will play a businessman on the Feb. 20 episode of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS.
U.S. Olympic speed-skating gold-medalist Apolo Anton Ohno also guest stars.
Shane tweeted yesterday: "Mahalo to everyone at Hawaii Five-O for having me on episode that airs Feb 20. Amazing experience!"
The No-Voice
The
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is holding a YouTube contest to find a soloist.
The top four vote-getters will get a chance to audition for conductor Manfred Honeck. The winner - if Honeck picks one - will receive $10,000 and a paid trip to perform with the orchestra at Heinz Hall. This could be your big chance, Itzhak Perlman.
People who play piano, violin, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet or harp (no beat-boxers, scratchers, synth players or kazoos) - can upload clips up to 10 minutes on YouTube through March 22.
(And, yes, if you make the finals, the orchestra will pay for an airline seat for your cello or harp.)
TATTBITS
* Good luck to 102.9 WMGK's
midday DJ Debbi Calton and weekend DJ Cyndy Drue, who appear on the Grammy-nominated children's album "All About Bullies."
The Grammys are Sunday night.
* Local writer Robert
Strauss, author of Daddy's Little Goalie: A Father, His Daughters & Work, will be on WHYY's "Here and Now" today between noon and 1 p.m.
* Tom Sherak and
other Academy Awards officials escorted 42 Oscars to Beverly Hills, from the R.S. Owens foundry, in suburban Chicago.
How did Oscar get through airport metal detectors?
* Clarence Clemons' nephew,
Jake Clemons, and Eddie Manion will join Bruce Springsteen's upcoming world tour with the E Street Band, sharing the late Big Man's role on sax.
* Producers say that Naomi
Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last two years of her life.
