Film Crew

"Everybody wants to be a star," Bud Light product manager Gary Grote said. "Everybody wants to be in a beer commercial. " Well, OK to the first, but the second statement seemed hard to believe. At least until Friday evening at Market Street Live. The place was crawling with beer commercial wannabes - some of whom even looked like those stereotypical babes and dudes who exist only on the tube. With any luck, they'd land a spot in Bud Light's "Spotlight on Philadelphia" TV promotion.

Rock star Billy Joel surprised his Soviet audience at a concert last night when he lost his temper, overturned an electric piano and smashed a microphone on stage. Angered by a film crew shining bright lights on the audience, Joel interrupted the lyrics of his hit single "Just a Fantasy" and shouted, "It's my show, for Christ's sake. " Then he flipped over an electric piano that he was playing at the rear of the stage and moved to the front, lifted a microphone stand over his head and smashed it on the stage.

The production crew on the new George Washington mini-series is going to have a revolution on its hands if it doesn't clean up its act, the head of the Society Hill Civic Association warns. "If things get very bad, we'll just go out in modern dress and walk in front of the cameras," group president Myrna Field threatened Tuesday. "I mean, what else can we do?" She and other residents of the historic neighborhood are complaining that the crew, part of the entourage that's been filming the CBS television drama here since March 31, had dirtied the streets, inconvenienced residents and been "generally inconsiderate" over the last week or so. In the four-hour mini-series, "Washington II: The Forging of a Nation," Barry Bostwick and Patty Duke will recreate their roles as George and Martha Washington.

Fallen is about to fall. As in descend. As in descend on Philadelphia. Beginning tomorrow, the Turner Pictures thriller - starring Denzel Washington as a decorated homicide detective on the trail of a serial killer - will begin six weeks of principal photography in and around the area. Emmy Award winner Gregory Hoblit, who made his big-screen debut with the Richard Gere sus-penser Primal Fear, will direct the film, whose cast also includes John Goodman, Donald Sutherland and Schindler's List's Embeth Davidtz.

It was just before noon Tuesday when a famous Hollywood actor left his trailer on Torresdale Avenue in Frankford, strutted across Kinsey Street and disappeared inside a factory to shoot scenes for his violent mob thriller. If Colin Farrell had made a left on Kinsey and walked up a few blocks, a trail of dried blood would have led him to the door of the Kinsey Street Cafe. Inside, he would have heard some real dialogue about violence in the city, the kind that doesn't end when the credits roll.

You'd think the most interesting thing about Bryn Mawr mother Beth Shak is that she's a world-class poker champ who once won $328,683 in a tournament, one of the biggest jackpots ever won by a woman. But her poker-playing skills aren't what landed her in a recent documentary next to Fergie and ex-Destiny's Child member Kelly Rowland, or on NBC's Today and in the pages of Women's Wear Daily. It was her shoes, all 1,200 pairs of them, the biggest private collection in the country according to Thierry Daher, whose film, God Save My Shoes , examines women's relationships to their footwear.

JENNA JAMESON makes her Wingette debut at Sportsradio 94 WIP's Wing Bowl 20 on Feb. 3 at the Wells Fargo Center. The retired porn queen-turned-actress will appear at the city's most prestigious sporting event on behalf of the World Famous Gold Club (1416 Chancellor), where she will hang out after the Wing Bowl. Doesn't look as if she will be dancing onstage, but adult-film sensation-turned-politician and reality TV star Mary Carey dances at the club Feb. 1 to 4. Carey, who hints she may move to Philadelphia to run for mayor or possibly governor in a few years, is honored to serve as Wingette for the fourth time.

The cast of the NBC television series "St. Elsewhere" was in Philadelphia yesterday to film scenes in next season's opener. Above, make-up artist Donna Moyer of Philadelphia puts the final touches on actress Bonnie Bartlett as her real-life and television husband, William Daniels, looks on. At right, Daniels, who plays University of Pennsylvania alumnus Dr. Mark Craig in the series, sits beneath a statue of Benjamin Franklin on the Penn campus....

Hundreds of people each week pass through Marceline Brown and Anthony Porecca's security checkpoint at the Chester County Courthouse - lawyers, their clients and the occasional television news personality out from Philadelphia to cover a high-profile case. And most of the time, it's all fairly routine. But on Thursday, someone a little out of the ordinary passed through and gave them both something to talk about. Just after 2 p.m., veteran actor E. G. Marshall strolled in and stopped briefly on his way to Courtroom 2, where a 50-member film crew was setting up $2 million worth of equipment to film a commercial starring - obviously - Marshall.

A preacher, says Rev. Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), the unlikely hero of the surprisingly effective and satisfying demonic thriller The Last Exorcism , is also an entertainer, playwright, filmmaker, and magician. The God part, the part about the preacher's faith? That's entirely incidental, adds Marcus. Writer-director Daniel Stamm's sophomore feature is a superbly creepy story about a disillusioned preacher-turned-showman whose newfound atheism is challenged when he becomes embroiled with a real demon.

It was just before noon Tuesday when a famous Hollywood actor left his trailer on Torresdale Avenue in Frankford, strutted across Kinsey Street and disappeared inside a factory to shoot scenes for his violent mob thriller. If Colin Farrell had made a left on Kinsey and walked up a few blocks, a trail of dried blood would have led him to the door of the Kinsey Street Cafe. Inside, he would have heard some real dialogue about violence in the city, the kind that doesn't end when the credits roll.

By Paul F. Bradley From my house, I could hear the wailing start every Saturday at 8 a.m. It penetrated the walls, growing louder with each wave. By 9, it was loud enough to prevent any further sleep. By 10, it was deafening. Was it a battle reenactment? Perhaps M. Night Shyamalan was filming in the area? Hardly. It was just the sound of crazed parents screaming as their 6-year-olds played soccer. One day, I walked over to the sports complex, drawn by the shrieking.

JENNA JAMESON makes her Wingette debut at Sportsradio 94 WIP's Wing Bowl 20 on Feb. 3 at the Wells Fargo Center. The retired porn queen-turned-actress will appear at the city's most prestigious sporting event on behalf of the World Famous Gold Club (1416 Chancellor), where she will hang out after the Wing Bowl. Doesn't look as if she will be dancing onstage, but adult-film sensation-turned-politician and reality TV star Mary Carey dances at the club Feb. 1 to 4. Carey, who hints she may move to Philadelphia to run for mayor or possibly governor in a few years, is honored to serve as Wingette for the fourth time.

SEE, THERE'S nothing wrong with Will and Jada's marriage. TMZ.com says that they went shopping yesterday in Malibu. At a mall. They laughed. Everything's peachy. Nothing to see here. Move along. Winehouse update Britain's Official Charts Company says that Amy Winehouse 's "Back to Black" has become the U.K.'s best-selling album of the 21st century. Or as we like to say at Tattle, the third millennium. The company said yesterday that "Back to Black" overtook James Blunt 's 2005 debut album to claim the title this week.

You'd think the most interesting thing about Bryn Mawr mother Beth Shak is that she's a world-class poker champ who once won $328,683 in a tournament, one of the biggest jackpots ever won by a woman. But her poker-playing skills aren't what landed her in a recent documentary next to Fergie and ex-Destiny's Child member Kelly Rowland, or on NBC's Today and in the pages of Women's Wear Daily. It was her shoes, all 1,200 pairs of them, the biggest private collection in the country according to Thierry Daher, whose film, God Save My Shoes , examines women's relationships to their footwear.

The abandoned buildings lining Ridge Street might be eyesores, but they're still ready for their close-up. A small section of the street was closed in North Philly until 6 a.m., while a film crew shoots "Must Be the Music," a music-industry murder mystery set in Philadelphia. Police cruisers are blocking Ridge Street at Mt. Vernon and Spring Garden to keep cars from driving through the set. The area is open to pedestrians, police said. Commuters who take SEPTA route 61 will experience a slight detour as the route is avoiding the .15 mile stretch of Ridge that is temporarily off limits, a spokeswoman said.

Wired 96.5 alumna G-N Kang is working on a TV show, tentatively called Dinner Date . It will be part of NBC10's Nonstop channel, launching this fall. The show's premise: Viewers eavesdrop on Kang and guests as they dine at hot restaurants. On Thursday, Kang and Eagles players Stewart Bradley and Todd Herremans taped at Chifa on Chestnut Street near Seventh with chef/owner Jose Garces . Kang is developing the show with 10! executive producer Mina Sabet . NBC10 newsies working on their own shows include Deanna Durante (an unsolved-mystery series called On the Case )

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3 p.m., NBC10) - Hugh Laurie; Spearhead perform. Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m., 6ABC) - Jon Stewart; Liza Minnelli performs. Glee (8 p.m., Fox29) - Will urges the glee club to help recruit new members. Raising Hope (9 p.m., Fox29) - A quirky new sitcom about a 23-year-old slacker trying to raise the infant born of a one-night stand. Life Unexpected (9 p.m., CW57) - Lux is failing her classes. Running Wilde (9:30 p.m., Fox29)

A preacher, says Rev. Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), the unlikely hero of the surprisingly effective and satisfying demonic thriller The Last Exorcism , is also an entertainer, playwright, filmmaker, and magician. The God part, the part about the preacher's faith? That's entirely incidental, adds Marcus. Writer-director Daniel Stamm's sophomore feature is a superbly creepy story about a disillusioned preacher-turned-showman whose newfound atheism is challenged when he becomes embroiled with a real demon.

NEW FRANKLIN, Ohio (AP) - Actor-director Corbin Bernsen has told police he was thrown to the ground during a bar brawl in Ohio, where he's making a movie. According to a police report, the star of TV's "Psych" and "L.A. Law" said he scraped a knee in the fight July 27 in the Akron area, where Bernsen is filming "25 Hill" about the All-American Soap Box Derby. A spokeswoman for the movie claims the scuffle began when a local man made unwanted advances to a woman on Bernsen's film crew while the moviemakers were having dinner.