Monday night, was my birthday, and my friends and I took my birthday limo to the film set to see if Liam or Miley would get confused and jump inside. They had already left for the day, but they left behind some props.  As usual I want to say it’s awesome when Philly & it’s tax incentive can lure a production away from NYC and we get a little Hollywood in the City of Brotherly love; and no matter how the production treats the paparazzi, they are always super nice to the fans who come out to watch the production. Just remember no flash, and no talking after they yell “Rolling.”

It was really exciting for this neighborhood to see

A movie star up close, even if they had no idea who he was, “it’s the tall good looking guy.”

They are filming in the house that is right next door to the corner deli. Check me out on Fox 29 on Thursday to get the details of who lives there and other fun dish.

Can you believe I missed getting this $$$ “Money Shot!!” That means I didn’t send it to the wireservice I work for in NYC, the one that pays my bills so I can futz around all day trying to get you the scoop. But hey I know you’re gonna enjoy it. They only did one take while I was there, otherwise I would have pulled out my professional camera and tried to get a much better shot for the magazines. Oh well. I’ve been blessed with awesome shots before like last week at Capital Grille. Thanks for stopping by, and if you’re in Philly check out TESUCHERS CHOCOLATES or get your shop on At The Shops of Liberty Place at 16th & Chestnut Streets. Starting tomorrow (7/25) through 7/30 filming for Paranoia will be at 9th & Lombard Streets (I originally read they were prepping the site here.) It will be an inside shoot, not much fun. I took this yesterday, today the house is completely wrapped in plastic.  I would avoid driving in this area as there will be trucks on Lombard, South and 9th Streets.Check out Philly Film Gurl’s page for video of Tuesday’s shoot, & hear the pigeon’s sing.

Philly Style Magazine held their annual soiree at Vie last Thursday, a very busy Thursday indeed as I had 3 other events I was scheduled to shoot and didn’t arrive at the PSM til nearly 8:30PM. (Sorry Stop Caid I wasn’t able to make it to Xfinity Live for your worthy cause.) PS if you’re photo is here could you wait til the end of the day to take it off, and also link back to PCC. Thanks HughE

Dana and Ron Donatucci, Dana Spain and Eric Cahill.

Jennifer Sherlock & notable Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky. Also spotted in the crowd was Philly Gossip’s Dan Gross, Matthew Nadu, Joe Diorio, Carmella Jacquinto, Nicole and Charles Paloux, Big Rube Harley, Sal D’Angelo, Erin and Ashley Elmore, Schoolly D, Jessy Kyle, Melanie King, Monica Malpass, Sharif Elgamal, Sabrina Thorne, Justin Pizzi, Nathan Learner, and Carol Tamburino

Socialite, Maria Papadakis wearing this seasons color: Orange, John Westrum and Melanie Martin

Philadelphia Eagles player Jeremy Maclin and Drew “The Mayor” Carballo

Delilah’s darling Angela. On Wednesday The 10th Annual Diamond G-String Award hosted by Jenna Jameson 7PM 100 Spring Garden St. Plenty of parking.

John Colabelli, publisher of Philly Style Magazine, betting it all that the night would be a winner (5th from left Jin Hee Park)

Lisa Silveri and Ellen Sarber

Vittoria Woodill, Shop for what pops, finding clothing for bargain prices at her blog Polished Pennies. Melony Roy, Jennifer Sherlock, Lauren Nickles and Bridget Quinn

 Pam Regan, Marcia Penn-Cummings, Lisa Gaudio, Blondell Reynolds-Brown and Carol Drumstas, Brown-Forman

COOL PIX PHOTO BOOTH

Shoe guru Beth Shak is kicking up her heels with happiness with Ben Cook

NBC10 Traffic & weekend reporter Christine Maddela, WMMR’s Marisa Magnatta, Vasiliki Tsiouris, Opa restaurant and Sheena Parvin, NBC10 Weather gal

John Bolaris and Erica Smitheman have been working on their tans in Margate.

The always stylish Brian Taylor, Office of Blondell Reynolds Brown and Buffy Morgan, Chorus Communications

Denethia Durgin and Aldoric Paugh

Susie Celek, Artur Kirsch, The Studio CL Workshop Angela Perfetto, Julie Dorenbos and Natalie Scarantino, Assistant to Owners at Philadelphia Soul AFL- all tanned up by Skin Palette

Darling of fashion and style Tim Adams was there wearing a classic seer sucker suit

Danielle DuBois, Hugo Boss and Robert Wright, G Lounge

JACK DANIELS and SOUTHERN COMFORT

The Palm Restaurant – This year my mug goes up on the wall as soon as I have time to schedule it. So grateful to them. I saw the caricature and it’s overwhelming to be honored this way. Danielle Grimm, Sales Manager at Palm Restaurant, Hoa Tran, Seang Phai, Nafis Robinson and Victor Quezada. They have a great happy hour at 9PM as well as at 5PM.

I can’t believe I can call Jade Starling my friend. She’s like my music idol of the 80s, I have wonderful memories dancing to her music with my friends in clubs like The Chez, Saratoga, Second Story, Kennel Club, Catacombs,Voodoo, Kurts and Gatsby’s.

I’ll be sweating and huffing & puffing for now on with the guy on the right twice a week as I fight to get healthier. It’s my trainer Steve Hoffman from The Sporting Club.. I’m going to chronicle it once a week, and on Twitter too. I really am excited. I’ve never had a personal trainer, which I so need to stay dedicated. It’s so easy to blow off exercise to chase Miley Cyrus or sit in the park and people watch, or work all hours of the night. With him is Hector Bones another trainer at the Sporting Club.

bottoms up

 Kristyn Aldrich, Megan Smith, Brownstone PR (Happy Birthday Megan, who’s celebrating with a week in Hawaii.), Monica Glass and Cheldin Barlatt Rumer, I-G Creative

Michelle Miller, The Nouveau Image, Josh DeMarco, Jason Matthews Salon and Jenne Doyle and Dana Moorison, Heads & Tails Salon.

Julianne Glatz (flew in from Chicago), Rochelle and Michael Steinberg, Tal and Jill Jacobson, Toby Delarosa, and Lindsay Furman

Katelyn Goodman and Rebecca Goodman

Wanda Mora, Mora Managment, with undefeated and current WBC light welterweight champion Danny “Swift” Garcia, rapper Eddie “Main Attraction” Rodriguez, and Christina Sanchez, Telemundo

Must be the music that’s turning me on, must be the music by CTO Entertainment

  Today’s my birthday. Thank U for one of the best years of my life!!

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Fan girls rule!. Enjoy these pixs & stories I’ve compiled.I was impressed with the skilled research the fan girls did to find the hotel.  This week they were  in Philly to see Miley Cyrus who is in town visiting her fiance Liam Hemsworth who is preparing to film a movie with Harrison Ford. Where’s Harrison, who knows and the gals don’t care. (Lucas Till went to the Franklin Institute on Wednesday)
Ford will not have a problem with tweens cloggging up the sidewalk outside of his residence. I haven’t seen anything like this since the Jonas Brothers came to Philly a couple years back, but I did see this thing in NYC many times, especially for the Jonas Brothers. I remember one such time when hundreds of fan gals slept outside of Trump International for 3 days as the boys were in town for a concert. I had to go over and see it. Crazy stuff, but wasn’t it just like this in the old days for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones?

 As I followed the fans for the past 24hrs or so, I was excited for them.
I didn’t even know where the duo was staying when I shot the Capital
Grille shots at 3pm on Wednesday. I really thought they would be at a different hotel with a drive up. I mean the gal has 6,593,587 followers OMG.
Serious fan base.

Some saw that she walked her dog Ziggy, so they went to Rittenhouse Square and sat on benches to try and catch her. This was Wednesday.

This was shot after I photographed Miley leaving Capital Grille with Liam, Amanda Beard and Luca Still. When I photographed her her hair was down, now it’s up here during her shopping spree.

Here she is at 15th & Locust. That’s the Patco station entrance behind her. I wonder what she was doing around there, hope she went to Hand & Stone like I told her.  I hear she bought this outfit at Anthropologie. (Wednesday)

Wednesday night Liam walked the dog

Thursday morning

Look Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth walking around, nearly unseen & unnoticed at 19th and Market Streets

DiBruno’s on Chestnut Street Thursday afternoon. Then she and Liam went to CVS for drugs or probably glossy mags. Did you know that on Wednesday Miley changed clothes 3 times, probably knowing that the paps would get pixs and the shots would get published. A UK online newspaper published 3 dress changes in a day.

Pete Falkenstein and Miley at 20th & Ludlow, Liam’s so nice to take the photo. This time next year people might be asking her to take the photo. What do you think? Hunger Games 2013.

Monica Fred and Liam Hemsworth

Mollie Dronson and Liam Hemsworth

Many of the fans I interviewed Thursday told me they figured out where she was staying because of the photos taken by fans and professionals in the previous days. Some studying the details of the neighborhood, many saw the fan photo of the hotel’s sign. I saw it too and knew the door was gonna be wide open for those.

great shot

the next moment, so funny

			Thursday night I drove by the hotel just to see what was what. I ran into this guy Alex that I knew in NYC. He was what I would call a super fan. He was always racking big time, er I mean getting multiple things signed, and getting pics with his celebs. He has a list that he goes after, he doesn’t just go for everyone, but I guess he would travel to Philly for Miley.  He said yesterday he got her in the park. She remembered him from 2 years ago, said she liked his dolphin tattoo, which by the way is near his six pack. I don’t know how she saw that. Anyway, he really hadn’t ever been to Philly, but saw one of the photos of her walking her dog and just went to that park. It really baffles my mind how he figured it all out since he’s not even familiar with Philly. Now that’s a super sleuth fan.  Miley went out to dinner last night at D’Angelo’s, (on 20th Street, or as I like to say Robert DeNiro’s favorite restaurant) then left the City. She’s in the Big Apple now someone told me. Then flying out to LA for the Teen Awards on Sunday. I’ve gotten word that they are changing hotels, which isn’t a surprise.

Filming for the movie starts tomorrow, yes on Saturday.  Thanks to all my peeps for the tips.

Here is a great tumblr which chronicles their visit to Philly, as well as well their lives in general.
http://mileyplanet.tumblr.com/

Last month Variety – The Children’s Charity Held its annual Children’s Champion Gold Ball at the Sheraton Society Hill

The honorees for the evening were Clear Channel’s Loraine Ballard-Morrill, and Jack Gilliam, who are also both Board Members.  You’ll recall I’ve written before that On Christmas Eve in 1927, a baby was left on the doorstep of a theater company with a note attached reading: “Please take care of my baby, her name is Catherine. I can no longer take care of her, I have eight others. My husband is out of work. She was born on Thanksgiving Day. I have always heard of the goodness of show business and I pray to God that you will look after her.” -A Heart-Broken Mother

As a result, Variety Club International (now Variety – The Children’s Charity) was founded by the eleven entertainers who discovered Baby Catherine. Its sole purpose was to help the less fortunate and to lend a hand to various civic and charitable organizations. Variety is a not-for-profit organization that takes pride in providing programs and services to special-needs children. Frank Isabella entertains the crowd during the cocktail hour.

Stephania Venaziale, Christian Gregory, Justine Giorgano, Lauren Miller and Meredith Bush

The Children’s Charity Tent 13 also honored Wawa, FirstTrust Bank, and Sesame Place with the Vincent N. Mariniello Award for Unconditional Love for their outstanding contributions to the Charity. Past recipients of this award are Scott Palmer, Guy Giordano, and Origlio Beverages. Dorothy Swartz, Director of Talent Management at Wawa, Inc. and Cathy Pulos, VP & Chief People Officer Wawa

The lovely Alicia Vitarelli, Anchor/Reporter for 6abc (WPVI)

 Past president of Variety Vince Mariniello, Dylan Brown and Creative Financial Group’s Russell Ohneck.
 

Fran Naselli, Chairman of the Board of Variety Philadelphia and Vice President at NovaCare

Thanks to all the sponsors that made the night possible.

SNL guest comic Jeff Norris

 Team Skai Blue Media was in attendance; Akari Yanada, Deirdre Donatucci, Rakia Reynolds, Michelle Conron and Jade Barnes. Congrats to Rakia who has been named Style Fashion ICON by the FBH Phila Fashion Week guys. The award will be giving on 9/20 during the Philadelphia Collection and their show.

Fran Naselli, Vice President at NovaCare poses with Clear Channel’s Loraine Ballard-Morrill holding her 2012 Variety International Award

The Team from Firsttrust bank holding their award.

Frank Naselli of Creative Financial Group, and Variety President with Jack Gilliam, holding his prestigious 2012 Variety International Award.

Thanks Mike Hirata for shooting this for PhillyChitChat

       On Wednesday July 18th, Venture
Up, a company that specializes in team building exercises for
corporations, and OraPharma will be donating bikes built by OraPharma
employees to local special needs children. Representatives from Venture
Up, and OraPharma, will be presenting the bikes to 16 boys and girls
from Variety – The Children’s Charity of
Philadelphia with varying special needs. Children and their families
will be attending the presentation.