Former CBS3 anchor Alycia Lane said goodbye to Philly yesterday as she boarded a flight to L.A. and a new home in the Hollywood Hills.

She is joining beau Chris Booker, who last month started hosting afternoons on L.A.'s KAMP, a Top 40 station. He was morning man on Philly's Q102 when they started dating in fall 2007.

Lane, a native of Long Island, N.Y., who arrived here from Miami six years ago, said she hoped to find a TV job. She has been off the air since December 2007, shortly after she was arrested and accused of striking a New York police officer. The charges were dismissed.

Captain Janks in hot water

Captain Janks' legal problems might not go away as quickly as he'd like them to.

North Wales' Thomas Cipriano, 43, a contributor to Howard Stern's show, is accused of skipping personal appearances at more than three dozen bars and clubs in three states and keeping the down payments, totaling $10,000 to $17,000.

On Friday, Cipriano surrendered to Cheltenham authorities to face a criminal charge in connection with one appearance, and a judge released him on $5,000 unsecured bond. His next hearing is docketed for July 20.

Cipriano's attorney, Thomas E. Carluccio, is hoping that his client can end his troubles by making restitution. Carluccio says he has found 10 bar owners willing to take refunds. Comedian Artie Lange, who hosted a benefit in late May, has committed $10,000 for Cipriano, and Carluccio said he had paid back $4,000 to eight owners.

But restitution alone might not settle this. The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, which has two other cases against Cipriano, has offered to prosecute three Bucks County cases, too. Consolidating those cases could strengthen the prosecution, said Bradford Richman, an assistant district attorney.

Cipriano, who spent 22 days in Montgomery County prison awaiting charges, is no longer doing personal appearances. Carluccio said yesterday that he had postponed a July 23 benefit until the legal situation became clearer.

Movie action

The Best and the Brightest, the comedy about small-market parents (Neil Patrick Harris and Bonnie Somerville) trying to enroll their kid at a posh Manhattan kindergarten, wrapped its local work Tuesday; its final wrap was Friday in New York. Greater Philadelphia Film Office head Sharon Pinkenson estimated the indie film's economic impact at $7 million.

Philly apparently will not get Unstoppable, the runaway-train movie from Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott. The Hollywood Reporter reports that 20th Century Fox is balking at the budget. I hear that upstate and Western Pennsylvania still might get some work out of it.

Jack Nicholson and Paul Rudd went before the cameras at the Widener Building across from City Hall last week. They're playing father and son in the untitled James L. Brooks comedy shooting here till October. (Nicholson and Rudd shot a scene with Kathryn Hahn.) The production is working out of soundstages at the Armory at Drexel University and near Philadelphia International Airport. This week, expect to see exteriors being shot near City Hall. Star Reese Witherspoon is expected to arrive midweek for her work as a woman torn between Rudd and Owen Wilson. And another casting call has been announced: Producers need "foreign diplomats" - men and women, all ethnicities, ages 35 to 60, who own their own national dress (such as saris, kufi caps, kaffiyehs, thawbs and turbans). Heery Casting asks applicants to e-mail photos of themselves wearing the costume to howdoyouknowcasting@gmail. com. Include your phone number.

Briefly noted

Philly's Solomon Jones, who juggles four jobs (spokesman for Rep. Chaka Fattah, Philadelphia Daily News columnist, Temple creative-writing instructor, and author), has a deal with NBC's Peacock Productions to develop what he calls a comedic reality show. Jones, whose writing has appeared in The Inquirer, began his writing career in 1993 from a homeless shelter.

Actress Raven-Symoné took a circuitous route to New York after an appearance Thursday at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J. She overnighted at the aloft, the lowercase-named hotel near Philadelphia International Airport.

Anchor Rick Williams of 6ABC, who played the king last year in Moorestown Theater Company's production of The King and I, is back onstage this summer. And it's a light role: He's playing Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, which will open Thursday and run for eight performances. His wife, Jocelyn, plays Babette in some performances.

About 200 friends of 6ABC sports director Gary Papa attended his memorial service Wednesday at the National Constitution Center, including Michael Barkann, Neil Hartman, Derrick Gunn, Don Tollefson, Phil Andrews, Vai Sikahema, Scott Palmer, Ed Benkin, and Phil Neuman. Most touching were speeches from KYW's Jeff Asch and Papa's widow, Kathleen. The Buffalo native died at 54 on June 19. The station showed the hour-and-a-half service on a digital channel and online; it's at http://is.gd/1tQGR.

Foodstuff

SquareBurger is the name of the seasonal burger stand that Stephen Starr will open at lunchtime tomorrow on Franklin Square. Reminiscent of the iconic Shake Shack in New York, this operation will serve burgers, fries, a salami-wrapped hot dog, a salad, and shakes and sundaes.

Chef Georges Perrier is about two weeks into his summertime experiment of allowing some patrons at Le Bec-Fin to pay what they wish for dinner. So far, he says, people have been dropping $40 and more a head for the privilege. One party of what he says were "three young girls" left $6 a person. "An hour later, one of them came back and left more," he says. The deal, Mondays through Thursdays for a 7 p.m. seating, is booked solid through August.

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