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Dan Gross: Fox traffic anchor: No accident?

NOTE: THIS STORY HAS BEEN CORRECTED

SHARP-EYED viewers have noticed that Fox 29 traffic anchor Dorothy Krysiuk has not been wearing her wedding ring recently.

We contacted Krysiuk, who married Anthony Marasa in August 2005.

She appreciated our inquiry, but doesn't wish to comment about her personal life. Efforts to reach Marasa, who works in sales, were unsuccessful.

Jacky Bam Bam

back in action

93.3 WMMR overnight host Jacky Bam Bam was back on air Friday night after being sidelined for a couple of weeks while recuperating from throat surgery.

Bam Bam, who recently led the Adelphia Fancy Club in its Mummers Parade debut, reported that his thyroid was removed by "the wonderful staff at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital."

"I guess screaming on a microphone for years just blew up my throat," Bam Bam wrote us the other day.

Jacky, also the house DJ at Cheerleaders (Front & Oregon), says he'll be back there to host post-Wing Bowl festivities on Friday.

LiveNation holds onto Boyd

LiveNation announced the sale of almost its entire theatrical division Thursday, but the largest live-music company in the world held onto two theaters - the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C., which it leases; and the Boyd Theatre (1908 Chestnut), aka the Sameric.

Clear Channel, of which

LiveNation is a subsidiary, bought the Philly theater in January 2005 from the Goldenberg Group. Built in 1928, the Boyd was Center City's last great movie palace and was closed in May 2002.

LiveNation has said it would turn the venue into a multi-use entertainment house. A LiveNation spokesman did not return an e-mail about plans for the theater.

'Tex' Cobb wants

to help boxers

Randall "Tex" Cobb's longtime attorney George Bochetto hosted a small reception for his pal, who graduated from Temple Friday with a degree in sports management.

On Thursday, we told you that the 54-year-old boxer-turned-movie-star ("Raising Arizona") had finished his studies at Temple, the same school his son, Joshua, attended. Cobb graduated magna cum laude and says his GPA was 3.74. Despite his degree, Cobb tells us he doesn't think being an agent is in his future. Instead, he hopes to work on boxing reform.

He would like "to be a living example of what a fighter can do when he gets out of the ring." Cobb says "there's no pension, no retirement, no long-term health care. It's the only major sport that doesn't have anything for the participant once he leaves."

As for any acting gigs, Cobb says, "There's things that are supposed to happen, but in this business you never know you have a job until the check clears." A wise outlook.

Club Wizzards now Atlantis

Club Wizzards (38th & Chestnut), a former haunt of Allen Iverson's, has changed its name to Atlantis Gentlemen's Club and, according to its ad in Unveiled, a local strip-club industry magazine, it is "under new management."

On Nov. 26, University of Pennsylvania police killed a gunman who was leaving the club after shooting and critically wounding the club's DJ. A message left for a club manager Friday was not returned.

Tiny new country-music fan

Congrats to 92.5 WXTU-FM morning host Andie Summers and husband Leonard Bonacci, the Eagles' director of event services, proud parents of a baby girl, Victoria Kathryn, born at 8 pounds, 4 ounces on Wednesday.

Albright here for 'Radio Times'

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will be an in-studio guest with Marty Moss-Coane on 91 WHYY-FM's "Radio Times" at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Albright has a new book, "Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership." Albright, who's endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for president, also will be seen on "Delaware Tonight" on TV12 Tuesday evening.

Local filmmaker snags

a Slamdance award

Churchville-raised Tom Quinn's "The New Year Parade" has won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival, which runs alongside the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

The film, shot largely in South Philly, deals with the effects of divorce on a family and prominently features the South Philadelphia String Band.

Quinn, 31, an Archbishop Wood and La Salle grad, is doing graduate film studies at Temple. "Parade" stars Jennifer Welsh and Greg Lyons, a musician who has played in Laguardia and, currently, Eastern Conference Champions. The movie will screen at New York's IFC Center next month.

Visit PhillyGossip.com for Dan's latest stories. Have a tip? Call 215-854-5963, or e-mail grossd@phillynews.com. For recent columns, go.philly.com/dangross.

 

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