Paula Deen

Hollywood titan Gene Hackman , 81, was recovering nicely Friday after being hit by a car while walking his bike. The Oscar-winner, who has been featured in 100 films including The Conversation and Unforgiven , was on a bicycle outing in the Florida Keys when the accident occurred, reports TMZ. "Gene was airlifted to the hospital for routine tests," his rep tells E!News. "Everything is fine and Gene is on his way home now with a few bumps and bruises. "   Paula Deen has diabetes?

Late Show With David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS3) - Salma Hayek; Louis Zamperini; Jane's Addiction performs. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC10) - Jonah Hill; Paula Deen; Chris Isaak performs. Jimmy Kimmel Live (midnight, 6ABC) - Zach Galifianakis; Mike Judge; Primus performs. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (12:37 a.m., CBS3) - Bryan Cranston; Amos Lee performs.

MY 18-YEAR-OLD nephew, John Armstrong, gasped when I told him that the star of the Food Network's "Big Daddy's House" would be coming to my house to cook us dinner. "He's coming to your house?" "That's right. Big Daddy's coming to our house," I repeated, pausing for emphasis. Yeah, I was name-dropping. But it's not every day that McCargo cooks a meal in somebody's home. Maybe back in the day, but not since 2008, when he became the last man standing on "The Next Food Network Star" and wound up snagging the grand prize - his own TV show.

They don't mind being called mama's boys. And why should they, when they have one of the food world's most popular cooking moms? But Jamie and Bobby Deen, the offspring of Food Network phenom Paula Deen, aren't simply satellites of a justifiably famous brand. They're a hot brand themselves. After helping their mother launch a business that started as lunch sandwiches and grew into an empire, the brothers could have kicked back and watched the revenue flow in. But mama didn't raise lazy boys.

JENNY DRUMGOOLE is done with cream cheese. And anyone who attends her show, "Real Woman of Philadelphia," which opened Friday at Moore College of Art, might be finished with it, too. Drumgoole is a video artist who graduated from Yale's prestigious master of fine arts program. Her latest project was prompted by a "Real Women of Philadelphia" contest sponsored by Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Southern-fried Food Network cooking show host Paula Deen. Participants (ladies only, please)

Drunk. Naked. Hooker. Police. Is there a more delicious string of words in GossipLand? Thank Charlie Sheen for inspiring them. The Two and a Half Men star was hospitalized Tuesday for a psychiatric evaluation hours after police say they found him naked and "highly intoxicated" in a room at New York's Plaza Hotel, which he apparently had trashed with actions most violent. An unnamed source tells RadarOnline that Sheen, 45, enjoyed cocaine and the company of a call girl prior to redecorating his room.

There are now two degrees of separation between Oprah Winfrey and South Jersey comedian Dena Blizzard . Blizzard, a frequent contributor to NBC10 (and Miss New Jersey 1995), started work Thursday as the audience warm-up act for the new Nate Berkus show in New York. Berkus, the decor guru from the Oprah stable, launches his syndicated daily program Sept. 13. It will air locally at 2 p.m. on NBC10. The show's general theme aims at organizing a mom's life, something that Blizzard, 37, can relate to as she'll juggle the three-day shooting schedule with her home life: kids Dean , 10, Jacqueline , 8, and Brooke , 6, and husband Jim . Lately, Blizzard has been sitting beside Dennis Malloy , filling in on Trenton's WKXW-FM (101.

10 for the Road 1. 2010 Food Network Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival. Atlantic City. July 29-Aug. 1. Paula Deen, Guy Fieri, Sandra Lee, Ted Allen, and Pat and Gina Neely are among the celebrity chefs appearing. Sample wines and foods, watch demonstrations, and shop more than 250 culinary vendors. 609-348-7100; www.acfoodandwine.com . 2. Delaware State Fair. Harrington, Del. July 22-31. Concerts by The Beach Boys and Selena Gomez, demolition derbies, children's events and much more.

WHEN Maria LaRosa starts at the Weather Channel on Monday, the former CBS 3 meteorologist will be reunited with her Penn State pal Jen Carfagno , who's also on air at the Atlanta-based channel. Carfagno, who grew up in Collegeville, graduated from Perkiomen Valley High in 1994, then studied meteorology at Penn State, where she met LaRosa. The latter left CBS 3 in March and gave birth to her third child, a son, Tyler , on May 3. Carfagno, who has worked at the Weather Channel since 1998, works Philadelphia into her forecasts as much as possible and expects Jersey-raised LaRosa to do the same.

NO DEAL HAS been reached, but we hear "Real World: Los Angeles" cast mate Glen Naessens and his brother Mike , who owns Eulogy (136 Chestnut), are trying to buy the Khyber (56 S. 2nd), which is mere feet away. Rumors of the Old City rock club being for sale have swirled for about a year, but nothing has come to fruition. Khyber co-owner Stephen Simons declined to comment yesterday. Simons owns the building and co-owns the bar with Dave Frank . The pair also operate the Royal Tavern, Cantina Los Caballitos and Cantina Dos Segundos.