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Luke Wilson: At Bryn Mawr during finals.
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Inqlings: Will Luke Wilson get any attention?
The women of Bryn Mawr College will have Luke Wilson in their midst in late April and early May.
Contact columnist Michael Klein at 215-854-5514 or mklein@phillynews.com. Read his recent work at http://go.philly.com/michaelklein and http://go.philly.com/foodanddrinq.
Wilson, the Legally Blonde star and Frat Packer, will be on campus to film Tenure, a comedy about a college prof.
Bryn Mawr nudged out Haverford College, which also had been heavily scouted.
Bryn Mawr spokesman Matt Gray expects few distractions at the all-woman school. "They'll be busy with finals at that point," he says.
Philly's Heery Casting is looking for identical-twin men, ages 18 to 22 with no acting experience necessary, for roles. (They must be actual identical twins.) E-mail a picture, with contact info, to tenuremovie@gmail.com.
Wilson's older brother Owen will visit Bucks County and thereabouts in May to shoot scenes with Jennifer Aniston for Marley & Me.
Food bites
Chef Francesco Martorella and financial backer Ed Snider have sold Bliss, the street-level restaurant they opened in fall 2003 in the Bellevue on Broad Street near Locust. New operator Chris Dhimitri, saying he plans no initial changes, has been in the game since 1976, when he opened Kanpai at the former NewMarket. He also opened and later sold Chris' Jazz Cafe, near 15th and Sansom Streets. Martorella is keeping quiet about his next move.Colleen's, the wedding/mitzvah venue in Center City's Park Towne Place for a quarter-century, is closing. Owner Les Friedman and building management have been embroiled in litigation over the lease. Friedman has shifted his catering to the Holiday Inn at Ninth Street and Packer Avenue in South Philly. Barry S. Slosberg will sell Colleen's equipment at 10 a.m. March 13. Space is expected to become a fitness center.
To drum up eyeballs for its new comedy series Unhitched, Fox has tied in with South Philly's Texas Wieners stand (1426 Snyder Ave.) tomorrow and Saturday. First 500 people in line each day will get a free dog. Unhitched premieres at 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
Radio war
Bashing the competition has not translated to higher ratings for Kidd Chris, according to January's Arbitron report, out yesterday. Since taking over mornings for rock WYSP (94.1 FM) on Nov. 26, Chris and crew have expended many syllables trashing top-rated Preston & Steve on rock WMMR (93.3 FM).Let's compare December's and January's numbers (while throwing out the holiday period in between). Audiences dropped for both shows.
Overall, among listeners age 12 and older, Preston & Steve's weekly audience was estimated at 384,500 in December and 333,700 in January, a 13 percent drop. Kidd Chris' was estimated at 171,400 in December and 127,900 in January, off 25 percent.
Among WYSP's target audience of men 18 to 49, Chris' audience shrank 29 percent (though his market share rose 41 percent), while the front-running Preston & Steve audience lost 11 percent (market share rose 2 percent).
Briefly noted
Ashlee Simpson will sign her new single "Outta My Head" from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Wal-Mart near Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem.Cindy Webster, marketing director for WOGL (98.1 FM), was on Michael Smerconish's show on WPHT (1210 AM) last week, bemoaning the lack of eligible men. Smerconish rounded up a few and will stage a "dating game" at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
CBS3 meteorologist Maria LaRosa told viewers Tuesday morning that she's expecting her second child in September. She and husband Mariusz Kolakowski have a son, Michael, who will be almost 3 when baby arrives.
Contact columnist Michael Klein at 215-854-5514 or mklein@phillynews.com. Read his recent work at http://go.philly.com/michaelklein and http://go.philly.com/foodanddrinq.