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Chalk up another win for corporate branding. Media behemoth Clear Channel's live-ent division, Live Nation, is renaming South Street's Theatre of Living Arts - once Andre Gregory's experimental theater, later a brilliant rep-film cinema - to Fillmore Philadelphia, beginning with the April 27 Todd Rundgren show.

Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony arrive for a CD signing of her new Spanish-language album "Como Ama una Mujer." (See "Just a girl from the Bronx.")
Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony arrive for a CD signing of her new Spanish-language album "Como Ama una Mujer." (See "Just a girl from the Bronx.")Read more

Chalk up another win for corporate branding.

Media behemoth Clear Channel's live-ent division, Live Nation, is renaming South Street's Theatre of Living Arts - once Andre Gregory's experimental theater, later a brilliant rep-film cinema - to Fillmore Philadelphia, beginning with the April 27 Todd Rundgren show.

It's all in the name of efficient standarbrandardization: TLA will share its new name with venues in San Fran, Denver and Manhattan. But, it'll also have the semblance of street cred: The name evokes '60s promoter Bill Graham's legendary Fillmore clubs in San Francisco and New York.

Nabbing a stalker

Maryland resident

Dominick Giordano

, 32, was arrested Monday at a

Michelle Branch

concert in Sheboygan, Wis., after the 23-year-old singer spotted him in the crowd.

Cops say Mr. Giordano has been criss-crossing the galaxy, following Branch's tours for four years.

Branch's road manager Joshua Scott said the guy used to sneak backstage and "would try to approach her and touch her and just really [do] inappropriate stuff."

Branch, whose '04 restraining order against the alleged starobsessedcrazystalkerguy has expired, said she was especially upset Monday because her 19-month-old daughter, Owen Isabelle Landau, was at the show.

Hole in one, indeed

That perpetually infantile toddler

Donald Trump

is stamping his feet and huffing at Golf Digest mag, which he says froze out Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., from its list of America's 100 Greatest Courses because - and there's no denying the power of The Trump Logic - The Donald refused to buy ads in the rag.

"Golf Digest editor Jerry Tarde said, "I think [Trump is] kidding. He knows it never happened. Nobody can buy their way on the list," which is compiled through a survey of 800 players.

Just a girl from the Bronx . . .

"I'm still," Ms.

Jennifer Lopez

proved, "I'm still Jenny from the block," when she showed up Wednesday at a record store in her native Jenny'Hood with the

Bronx Cleopatra

's very own

Latino Marcus Antonius

, dapper hub,

Marc Anthony

at her side.

J.Lo spoke in Spanish: "I want to say thank you to everyone for coming to celebrate with me this very special day for me."

J.Lo's newest, Como Ama una Mujer (How a Woman Loves), is a Spanish-language album that she dedicated to her 'hood. And her next two flicks, Bordertown and El Cantante, will deal with what the biz might call "Hispanic themes."

In the name of love . . .

Why did House of Windsor wait until the world's

Only Chance for Survival, that indefatigable champion of Africa's poor, Bono, was 46 before granting him a knighthood?

Yesterday, the singer was anointed Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by David Reddaway at the Brit ambassador's Dublin home.

Huh? Um . . . wait . . . a . . . minute?

Where was the queen?

Guess The Most Excellent Bono doesn't deserve her: See, he's not even a Sir because he's not a Brit, but a member of the Brits' favorite historical whipping boys, the Irish.

"You have permission to call me anything you want - except sir, all right? Lord of lords, your demigodness, that'll do," Bono quipped.

Hudson to take wings?

Newcomer

and

Oscar-winner.

American Idol

loser

and

Tinseltown victor.

Dreamgirls

' dreamalicious dish Jennifer Hudson is a wonder wrapped in a paradox topped with plenty of talent.

Variety says the singer-actress is in talks to join the accomplished cast of Winged Creatures, a film about a group of disparate folks dealing with life after they witness a murder-suicide. Hudson, who's also at work on a CD, would costar with Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker and nominee Jackie Earle Haley as well as Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce and Dakota Fanning.

Indiana & the Cockney

I've always thought

Raiders of the Lost Ark

really needed some Cockney to be considered the greatest film of all.

And so it came that The Overlord, Steven Spielberg, heard my beseechments and signed on the terrific pugilist turned thesp, Ray Winstone, to play Indiana Jones' sidekick (ugh . . .) in the next Indiana Jones flick. Filming for the Indy 4 project, which will also feature Cate Blanchett, begins in June.

So what about Karen Allen? Is that amazing woman who veritably made the first flick considered too old at 55 to costar? Yeah, well, at 64, Harrison is hardly a gallivanting studling.