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Nick Nolte took a break Friday from shooting "Warrior" in Atlantic City. The actor plays a former boxer who is training his son for a mixed martial arts tournament.
Inqlings: On fifth try, she's Miss Pa.
Fifth time's a charm in the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant for Wilkes-Barre's Shannon Doyle, 24, who graduated summa cum laude from Villanova with a bachelor's in biology and who just finished her second year at medical school at Thomas Jefferson in Philly.
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"It's been a long road," says Doyle, who made it into the top 10 as a 20-year-old, was third runner-up in her second year, and was first runner-up her third and fourth years. "It's long been a dream of mine."
Doyle, whose brother Patrick is a Philly assistant district attorney in the juvenile unit, will take a year off med school. The Miss A Pageant is Jan. 30 in Las Vegas.
Doyle's platform is enriching the lives of hospitalized children, which she says dovetails into the Miss A Organization's recent adoption of Children's Miracle Network as a charitable partner. Talent: She's been tap dancing since age 4.
Crystal coming
Billy Crystal will bring 700 Sundays, his Tony Award-winning Broadway show, to the Merriam Theater for 13 shows from Sept. 30 to Oct. 11. It's a homecoming for the comedian-actor, as it's two blocks from the old Bijou Cafe, one of Crystal's first venues when he began his solo standup career in 1974. Electric Factory Concerts owned the Bijou, and that's where founding partner Larry Magid met him. Magid produces the show.
Media notes
Radio pioneer Ed Hurst will air his 1977 interview with the Jacksons, notably with Michael Jackson, at 11 a.m. today on Shore oldies station WIBG-AM (1020 and at www.wibg.com). Hurst, who considers the nine-minute talk one of his best interviews, caught them in Philly as they recorded an album at Sigma Sound Studio. There's video, too, says Don Hurley, Hurst's producer, who adds that they're not certain how they'll air that. The show will repeat several times during the week.Sportscaster Steve Bucci will sign copies of his new book Steve Bucci's Total Phillies Trivia from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Chickie's & Pete's in South Philly.
Mike Missanelli of 950ESPN will have retired (but not retiring) talker Steve Fredericks on the air to take calls at 4:45 p.m. today.
Huzzahs to Wilmington's WDEL-AM, which just won a 2009 national Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for its morning newscast. It's the station's second Murrow in three years.
CBS3 reporter Todd Quinones, 34, and Gosia Pietka, 30, who works in District Attorney's Office's extradition unit, are getting married. Quinones proposed as they first turned the key on their new home in Bella Vista. No date has been set.
Contact columnist Michael Klein at 215-854-5514 or mklein@phillynews.com. See his blog at http://go.philly.com/insider. On Twitter: @phillyinsider.
