The PFF's closing film will be Wynnefield-native director Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire." The sad story was a hit at Sundance.

There are 28 films in the fest, most of which will screen at the Ritz at the Bourse and the Prince Music Theater.

* Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Film Society will benefit from a Thursday-night event at former Center City movie palace Arcadia Theatre (1529 Chestnut). Closed in the 1970s, it reopens as an event space called the Chestnut Club at Arcadia Theatre. Thursday's "Night of 40's Glamour" honors the heyday of the theater, built in 1915. City Rhythm Orchestra will perform as dancers and cigarette girls offer glitz & glamour.

Musharraf on the Main Line

Pervez Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan, is still in the area. We're told he's been staying in Villanova with Dr. Raza Bokhari, of Parkway Clinical Laboratories. Sunday the two were part of a large dinner party at the Water Works Restaurant and Lounge behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Musharraf went for lobster bisque, a lamb lollipop, steak Oscar and vanilla bean crème brûlée for dessert. Musharraf is hanging in the area before embarking on a 35-city speaking tour of the United States. He was to guest this morning on Michael Smerconish's show on The Big Talker 1210 AM.

Trailer out for Mumia movie

Director Tigre Hill has released a trailer for "The Barrel of a Gun," a documentary about the controversy surrounding the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner by Mumia Abu-Jamal. The trailer can be seen online at thebarrelofagun.com, on Facebook, My-Space and YouTube. Hill hopes to schedule a local premiere of the film in early December. Dec. 9 is the 28th anniversary of Faulkner's slaying. Abu-Jamal supporters interviewed include actor Ed Asner and death-penalty foe Sister Helen Prejean. Also among those talking about the case in the film are Gov. Rendell; District Attorney candidate Seth Williams; Joseph McGill, who prosecuted Abu-Jamal as an assistant district attorney; Faulkner's widow, Maureen; Smerconish, who cowrote her book "Murdered by Mumia," and the People Paper's Stu Bykofsky.

Siblings can share 'Menopause'

Philip Roger Roy, producer of "Menopause: The Musical," is happy that his sister Vicki Oppenheim will finally be able to see the show when it plays the Kimmel Center Sept. 29 to Oct. 4. She's been in a wheelchair since suffering a spine injury in a 2004 car accident, and couldn't catch the show during its 3 1/2-year engagement at the Society Hill Playhouse (507 S. 8th) because of its steps. Oppenheim, a mentor for spinal-injury patients at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, has also recommended the show to some wheelchair-bound people there.

And speaking of Magee . . .

NBC10 meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz stopped by Magee the other day to visit a patient on the spinal- cord-injury floor. The patient had told a therapists he had always wanted to meet Hurricane. Magee PR Director Kerry O'Connor arranged the visit through NBC10's Jade McCarthy, who was covering former Magee patient Jerry Segal. Segal's 19th annual golf classic to benefit Magee is Friday at the Green Valley CC and the ACE Center in Lafayette Hill.

Friday is Old Newsboys Day

6 ABC's Monica Malpass, Fox 29's Jennaphr Frederick, NBC10's Michelle Grossman, CBS 3's Jim Donovan, District Attorney Lynne Abraham and Mayor Nutter are expected at the kickoff for Old Newsboys Day, a fundraiser for children's charity Variety, at 10 a.m. Friday outside City Hall. More than a dozen bands, including the Quaker City String Band, and DJs will perform during the event at which people will sell $1 copies of a Variety newspaper.

No disrespect intended, Colonel

We mistakenly reported the wrong rank for Army Col. Kevin McAleese yesterday. McAleese, who also works as a human-resources consultant, was a contestant on "Deal or No Deal" yesterday.

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