Inqlings: 'Sunny' scores with hockey shtick

WMMR's

Preston Elliot

and

Steve Morrison

were at center ice before Friday's Flyers game, leading fans in cheering as they shot a scene for the set-in-Philly FX sitcom,

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

.

In the scene, Mac (Rob McElhenney), joined at the game by Charlie (Charlie Day), wins a chance to shoot a puck into the net at the Wachovia Center and win a week at the Preston & Steve Shore house. But hilarity ensues, which is why stuntman Ed Gabree was employed to pratfall for Mac while double Adam Danoff skated as Charlie. Elliot and Morrison will fly to L.A. in two weeks to reshoot close-ups with the real actors.

Producers collected the clothes that the hosts wore and shipped them west for the retake.

The Always Sunny company will be here in June for eight or nine days to shoot exteriors.

Penn State football coach

Joe Paterno

sang with his supper Thursday at the High Note Cafe @ Franco & Luigi's, at 13th and Tasker Streets in South Philly. Chef-owner

Franco Borda

, who routinely strolls the dining room to serenade patrons, got Joe Pa on his feet for a duet of "O Solo Mio." Paterno and his friends enjoyed the roasted peppers, hot sausage with broccoli rabe, pasta, and seafood, veal, and chicken platter, washed down by assorted wines. The lineman-size Borda, whose playing days are long ago, kiddingly asked the 83-year-old legend about a starting position in the 2010-11 Nittany Lions lineup, and the coach (also kiddingly) suggested he keep his day job.

When it rains it pours for Cherry Hill actor

Brian Anthony Wilson

, who next Sunday wraps as Prince Escalus in the Arden Theatre Company's staging of

Romeo and Juliet

. Starting Monday, he'll squeeze in a role as an Atlantic City casino pit boss for the untitled NBC pilot in which

Jimmy Smits

stars as a Supreme Court justice named Garza. (The show was in production in Center City last week.) When shooting of the

Bradley Cooper-Robert De Niro

film,

The Dark Fields

, comes to Philly next week, Wilson will play a detective who has dealings with Cooper's character, a down-and-out writer who takes a shady miracle drug. Wilson also has parts in two indie films shooting shortly -

Rel Dowdell

's

Changing the Game

and

Tony Palma

's

9-Ball

. "I'm blessed to be working," says the Mount Airy/Germantown-raised Wilson, a 1978 Cardinal Dougherty grad.

This weekend is the end of the line for the always-packed Little Fish, the BYOB at Sixth and Catharine Streets in Bella Vista. Chef-owner

Mike Stollenwerk

has reported trouble with the building exterior since the fall, and he said the situation had not improved. (The building owner could not be reached for comment.) Until Stollenwerk finds a new location, he continues to operate his newer and larger spot, called Fish, at 1708 Lombard St.

Wedding bells and contractions are in the future of NBC10 anchor/reporter

Stacey Weaver

, 36, who this month will marry

Larry Stauffer

, 37, owner of a Lehigh Valley recruiting firm. They're expecting at the end of August. She has a son,

Ben

, from her previous marriage.

CBS3 anchor/reporter Lesley Van Arsdall and her husband, Mike Joson, both 37, are expecting their first child in September. He owns Young Sports, a gym for youngsters, in Wayne. They were married in July.

Wednesday will be the CBS3 swan song for sports anchor Don Bell, who is bound for an anchor post at ESPN. Bell, who started at CBS3 in 2005 from KPLR in St. Louis, says his high point here was the Phillies' 2008 World Series win - one of three Series he's covered. "Game 5, Part 2, was the ultimate experience," says Bell, who leaves the department in the hands of Beasley Reece. No replacement has been announced.

Erica Grow, who parted company with 6ABC in December after two years on the weather desk, tells me that she's exploring several career options. In the meantime, the Bethlehem, Pa., native and Penn State alumna has been showing her science smarts by volunteering at the Franklin Institute and keeping her charitable side up by visiting hospitals with her golden retriever mix, Twango, through the pet-therapy program Pals for Life. A few weeks ago, Grow was keynote speaker at the 10th annual GETT (Girls Exploring Tomorrow's Technology) Event at Penn State's Great Valley campus.

Valley Forge's

Dave Blazek

, who draws the

Biz

cartoon in The Inquirer's Sunday Business section as well as the

Loose Parts

'toon in the Philadelphia Daily News (and other papers), is a nominee for a National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award - which Blazek calls the Oscar of the cartoon world.

Loose Parts

is up for best newspaper panel against

Tony Carillo

's

F Minus

and

Hilary Price

's

Rhymes With Orange.

Awards will be handed out Memorial Day weekend.

Comcast SportsNet and the International Cycling Championship signed a three-year deal to televise the annual bike race; this year's outing is June 6.

Former Czech President Václav Havel and his wife, Dagmar, plan to attend the May 26 opening night of Leaving, the playwright's first play in 20 years, at the Wilma Theater. Leaving will receive its U.S. premiere production under the direction of the Wilma's Jiri Zizka. David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) stars as ex-chancellor Vilém Rieger.