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SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS played some blackjack at the Pool After Dark at Harrah's, where he co-hosted a party Saturday night with "Mob Wives" star Drita D'Avanzo. The last time the music mogul was scheduled to appear at the Harrah's hotspot, a near-riot broke out because of an unruly, overpacked crowd.

Sean Combs ponders his bet at the blackjack table. Do I take a hit? Or do I stick?
Sean Combs ponders his bet at the blackjack table. Do I take a hit? Or do I stick?Read moreTOM BRIGLIA / PHOTOGRAPHICS

SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS

played some blackjack at the Pool After Dark at Harrah's, where he co-hosted a party Saturday night with "Mob Wives" star

Drita D'Avanzo

. The last time the music mogul was scheduled to appear at the Harrah's hotspot, a near-riot broke out because of an unruly, overpacked crowd.

On Friday night Dustin Diamond, known to a generation as Screech from "Saved by the Bell," celebrated his 35th birthday with a party at the Pool.

OUT AND ABOUT

Phillies shortstop

Jimmy Rollins

and wife

Johari

stopped into Ruth's Chris Steak House (260 S. Broad) for dinner Wednesday before the Temple/Duke game at the Wells Fargo Center. The night before, Duke Coach

Mike Krzyzewski

and his entire basketball team dined at the steakhouse as well.

* Actress, singer and playwright Tovah Feldshuh toured the National Museum of American Jewish History on Thursday. Feldshuh, in the area starring in "Gypsy" at the Bristol Riverside Theatre, was escorted on her tour by museum President and CEO Michael Rosenzweig and Ivy L. Barsky, the museum's chief operating officer.

Feldshuh narrates and appears in a film about Golda Meir in the museum's Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame.

* Steel Panther, the '80s hair-metal parody rockers, brought 93.3 WMMR morning host Preston Elliott onstage at their sold-out show at TLA (334 South) Thursday to play drums on their cover of Van Halen's version of the Kinks' "You Really Got Me."

Eagles fullback Owen Schmitt was headbanging in the crowd, which also included Sandra Bullock homewrecker Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, in town for a pillow fight Friday. McGee flashed her breasts to the crowd from the stage.

Child actor's 'One Life'

Plymouth Meeting's

Patrick Gibbons Jr.

has had a regular role on "One Life to Live" for about a year. The 6-year-old, who plays Sam Manning on the soap, will last be seen on Thursday's episode. The long-running soap ends for good on Friday.

Gibbons' older sister Anna, 16, is an actress herself, and a producer saw her hanging around the set with her brother and decided to put her in a scene on Wednesday's episode. Patrick, meanwhile, has earned rave reviews from head writer Ron Carlivati in Soap Opera Digest.

'Today' talk at Drexel

Former "Today" host

Jane Pauley

and

Steve Friedman

, executive producer, will join author

Stephen Battaglio

, who wrote

From Yesterday to Today

, about the 60-years-running NBC morning show, at Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 23 to talk about the program.

Karen Curry, executive director of the Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute for Media Studies at Drexel, will moderate the panel discussion taking place at the Bossone Research Center (3140 Market). The talk is free and open to the public; Battaglio's From Yesterday to Today is $30.

For more information, visit www.drexel.edu/westphal or call 215-895-1029.

Dishing on dance

The African American Museum in Philadelphia (7th & Arch) and the Literary Cafe present A Conversation with

Joan Myers Brown

and

Brenda Dixon Gottschild

from 6 to 8 tonight at the museum. Brown, longtime artistic director of the Philadelphia Dance Company, will discuss her career with Gottschild, who wrote about her in the new book

Joan Myers Brown & The Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

, which will be available for purchase at the event.

For info, call 215-878-2665.