Inqlings: Jamie Kennedy, Jennifer Love Hewitt shooting a film in Phila. area

Should actors/lovers Jamie Kennedy and Jennifer Love Hewitt emerge on your radar screen in the area:

They're here shooting a low-budget independent film called Cafe, an ensemble piece about life in a coffee shop. Localite Marc Erlbaum wrote the screenplay at West Philly's Green Line Cafe, which will host a few scenes.

Also cast in Cafe are Daniel Eric Gold (Matt in Ugly Betty) and Alexa Vega (Carmen Cortez in Spy Kids).

Sean Covel and Doc Wyatt, producers of Napoleon Dynamite, are producing with J. Andrew Greenblatt.

Greenblatt, a friend of the Upper Darby-bred Kennedy's, says he simply sent him the script "and he liked it." Hewitt, who is dating Kennedy, came along as part of the deal. Greenblatt wants to keep details under wraps and wouldn't disclose the shooting location, other than to say it is in the suburbs.

Sam Katz, the businessman and erstwhile mayoral candidate, is moving forward with his long-form documentary about Philadelphia's history. On Sunday, cinematographer Garrett Brown visited City Hall, where director Mark Moskowitz and coproducer Damon Sinclair were setting up shots of the building with a Steadicam, which Brown invented. Yesterday was a particularly bloody shooting day as crews re-created the assassination of Octavius V. Catto on Pemberton Street in Queen Village. Catto, an educator and civil-rights activist, was shot dead at Ninth and South Streets in 1871. Pemberton Street was chosen because it still has the look of the Victorian era. See the project's Web site at historyofphilly.com.

Stewart Mahan, director of catering and conference services at the Westin at Liberty Place, pulled off a minor miracle Friday. Power failed near 17th and Chestnut Streets, sending nearly two dozen buildings into darkness. Managers at the Italian steak house Davio's, which was to host a rehearsal dinner 45 minutes later for 100-plus, rang up the Westin across the street, which had power. Mahan called in staff, some on their day off. The dinner, in honor of Jennifer Toll and Brett Schulman, went off on time, says father of the bride Bruce Toll, a builder and chairman of Philadelphia Media Holdings.

CBS3 anchor Chris May and wife Lea are the parents of Mary Evelyn May, who arrived Wednesday - several weeks early but at the height of sweeps. The couple have a son, Owen, 3.

Carbo-loading at Drexel: The university's Italian Students Organization will host the Boss of the Sauce Competition at 3 p.m. Monday at the Korman Quad, 32d and 33d Streets south of Market Street. Ralph's, Dante & Luigi's, Cucina Forte, and LaScala's will put out their marinara for a vote. Lorraine Ranalli will be there signing copies of her book Gravy Wars: South Philly Foods, Feuds & Attytudes.

You might not know Bill McAlister, but you know what he sells: Smart Mop, Urine Gone, Mighty Putty, and those classics Ding King and Slice Wizard. McAlister - president of Trevose's Media Enterprises, known for its "As Seen on TV" products - turns up tomorrow on the Discovery series Pitchmen (10 p.m.).