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Tolly, the movie?

Also: Bradley Cooper comes home, Joe Sixpack and Glen Macnow start a podcast

Former sportscaster Don Tollefson during a break at his fraud trial earlier this week.
Former sportscaster Don Tollefson during a break at his fraud trial earlier this week.Read moreCLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer

 D ON TOLLEFSON's old roomie has an idea for the jailed former sportscaster.

Make a movie.

Jeff Koenigsberg, who let Tollefson live with him in his North Philly home while Tolly was down and out, told me he thinks Tollefson's life should get the big-screen treatment in the vein of the Leonardo DiCaprio escape caper "Catch Me if You Can."

Koenigsberg admits he might have to embellish a bit, but thinks it's a perfect way to raise any potential restitution funds. "Don wasn't like [DiCaprio in 'Catch Me if You Can'], but when Don walks in a room, people want to give him money," Koenigsberg told me. "It's that part of his personality."

Tollefson is awaiting sentencing after he was found guilty on five counts of theft and related charges after selling bogus travel and sports packages. He's scheduled to be sentenced March 4.

Koenigsberg told me that Tollefson had tasked him with selling his memorabilia collection. Despite the huge volume - Koenigsberg counted more than 80 bags full of memorabilia to sell - it won't cover what Tollefson may have to pay.

Koenigsberg does not own Tollefson's life rights, but has discussed the idea with the former sportscaster. He's even reached out to some of Tollefson's acquaintances, including Harry Jay Katz - whose son, David Bar Katz, is a playwright and screenwriter.

B. Coop comes home

Germantown Academy grad Bradley Cooper got the "60 Minutes" treatment Sunday night. The Academy Award nominee for "American Sniper" walked around South Philly with correspondent Steve Kroft, specifically strolling down the Italian Market, as well as sitting down with cousin Colin Campano and mother Gloria at Villa di Roma (936 S. 9th St.) and stopping by Claudio's (924 S. 9th St.) in an extended cut of the episode. Claudio's owner Sal Auriemma said Cooper, with Kroft, came in about three weeks ago and was a nice guy.

In an extra online-only clip from the interview, Cooper told a great anecdote about taking his dad to the Palm (the Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St.) right before he died of cancer, saying they lied and told the server it was the senior Cooper's birthday so he could get a lobster for free.

Another interesting tidbit from the extras: "60 Minutes" producer Ann Silvio mentioned to Kroft that she had always thought of Cooper as a little square before she saw him hit the Philly streets, where he ups the accent quotient. Does Cooper trot out Philly when he wants to muss up his pretty-boy image a bit? Sometimes it certainly feels like it.

Brew down

Glen Macnow, radio host and part owner of Conshohocken Brewing Co., and Daily News beer columnist Joe Sixpack (a/k/a Don Russell) are taking to podcast to discuss . . . what else? Beer.

"Bar Talk" will feature discussions on all things brew, while sometimes wandering into territories like movies and sports, as if two friends were hanging, throwing back the suds.

They'll record their first podcast live on March 11 at Rose Tree Restaurant (1243 N. Providence Road, Media) at 6:30 p.m.

OUT AND ABOUT * Comedian and newly minted "Fashion Police" host Kathy Griffin was spotted at Barbuzzo (110 S. 13th St.) on Sunday night on her way back from a gig at the Grand Wilmington, in Delaware. The successor to Joan Rivers on E!'s uber-bitchy show enjoyed the Mediterranean joint's salted caramel budino. * Bill Irwin, a veteran of stage (he's an actor/director/choreographer/clown) and screen (catch him as Dr. Peter Lindstrom on "Law & Order: SVU," for example), took in Theatre Exile's "The Whale" on Sunday night. Irwin is in Philly as a part of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's Theatre Masters series. "The Whale," about an obese shut-in trying to right his life, runs until March 1.

Wedding bells

Monica Sciaky, daughter of the late, great WMMR DJ Ed Sciaky, got married Sunday night at the Curtis Center. Sciaky, an opera singer, married Eiki Isomura, a conductor.

Recently retired WXPN DJ Gene Shay and Tony Award nominee Benj Pasek were among the guests. The ceremony included a tribute to Sciaky, and Monica and her mother, Judy, gleefully danced to Bruce Springsteen's "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)," a favorite of Ed's.