While everybody thrills at the confirmed list of what next Philadelphia International Film Festival will bring to the screen Oct. 15 to 19, nobody’s asked the most important thing — which celebs are coming. The Philadelphia Film Society’s J. Andrew Greenblatt gave me the skippy so far. “F. Gary Gray will bring Law Abiding Citizen along with special guests,” says Greenblatt (teasing Jamie Foxx and/or Gerard Butler?), and Lee Daniels will bring Precious [star Gabourey Sidibe].” Maybe we’ll have more surprises soon.

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Psydde Delicious

Could it really be 10 years since I sat in Lucy’s Hat Shop watching kids strip off their glad rags and dance while corsetiere Psydde Delicious provoked them to further silliness and sexiness? But here we are — Fast Cheap at 10-years-old is happening now.

�The Fast Cheap anniversary will host a cavalcade of our usual stars and celebrity guests, celebrating with many of the original surviving talents and partygoers who started a legend with us,� says Delicious.

He used to have the phrase “Out of Controlâ€� attached to it too. But Psydde’s more compact now — with a men’s store in the Piazza to go with his Delicious Corsets shop on Liberties Walk he hardly has time for extraneous phrasing. “I think back fondly of our humble beginnings at Lucy’s Hat Shop and how we single handedly created a seedy underbelly tarnish on the sterling shine of Old City during those first few sleazy years,â€� says Delicious. “The motorcycle gangs, accountants, punks and strippers all partying together harmoniously — it was great. Funny how it was always the jocks that started any problems there. No matter, it was probably the most genre bending party of its time.â€�

Delicious is celebrating with two events — one tonight at Patou in Old City, the decadent party’s original haunt with the equally haunted and decadent Three-4-Tens. There will be a few Delicious dancers to help brighten the dusk of the high-ceilinged French locale while Psydde DJs.

Then there’s Fast Cheap bash at Fluid on Sunday, September 27 – where the party’s been since Lucy’s asked Psydde to move after the lewdness. The Fluid bash features special guests such as Melissa Bang-Bang, Violet Sweet, Kiki Berlin and LuLu Lollipop and fashion shows courtesy of Delicious Boutique & Corseterie, Crash Bang Boom and Passional.

“We’re older, yes. Wiser, not so sure,â€� says Delicious. “But we’re just as determined as always. I hope to launch Fast Cheap in Space within the next few years if technology still has not caught up with my ideas I will settle for Fast Cheap on Ice. Fast Cheap will move forward into our twilight years or as long as our livers hold out. There’s a whole new generation who needs to experience the legend.â€�

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Fri., Sept. 25, Patou Restaurant, 312 Market St., 215-392-0936, patourestaurant.com.

Sun., Sept. 27, Fluid, 613 S. 4th St., 215-629-3686, fluidnightclub.com

©Scott Weiner 2009

This is not a promotional shot of the new Mickey and Mallory a la Natural Born Killers II: Peyote Buttons. Or a goofy sequel to What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Or even a slacker version of Cape Fear. This is Juliette Lewis having a pow wow with Jackass Bam Margera before her show at his club, West Chester’s The Note, last night. My good friend Scott Weiner snapped the shot. The place didn’t sell out sadly — Lewis is always a sweat inducing heart racing thrill — yet everyone was all smiles anyhoo.

Always be on the look-out for your less-than-usual celeb sightings at Icepack online.

In the last three days, I’ve received several tips regarding in-towner Reese Witherspoon that seem to reflect some form of worry. Oh, my tipsters aren’t soooooo concerned that this film that James L. Brooks is lensing will never seem to get a name no matter how much we kvetch. And no, they don’t think the likes of Owen Wilson and Jack Nicholson have abandoned Rittenhouse Square for Washington West.  No, my readers concerns went deeper – kinda – and seemed to be about Reese’s weight and dating options.

The first one who spied Witherspoon and the ubiquitous Paul Rudd at Morimoto after filming throughout the night at Union Trust, seem more driven to comment how the duo have been spending lots of drinking and supping time together – and not in front of the camera. May I assure you, that though this is how Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie probably got together during Mr. & Mrs. Smith, I highly doubt that Jake Gyllenhaal has anything to worry about. The other spy caught Witherspoon right after she lunched at Jones. The concern there was that she looked extremely thin and wasn’t dressed “appropriately.� After all that eating at Union Trust and Morimoto – to say nothing of all that chow at El Vez, Parc and Alma de Cuba, how much more do you want this poor girl to eat?

Back off clowns.

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Daryl Hall and Angelica Huston?

The only good things about The Spectrum’s closing are the memories it’ll conjure the closer to implosion, and the rash of wildly amazing shows (Maxwell with Robin Thicke, Leonard Cohen, Halloween with Pearl Jam) in the wake of its finale.

And though we were excited by the notion of Hall & Oates playing out their hits on Oct. 23 in accordance with its first ever box set Do What You Want Be What You Are. We got triply thrilled when we heard that Todd Rundgren was on the bill.

Not only did the Upper Darby/Philly boy trio form what would be the Seventies Blue Eyed Soul Axis (all due respect to Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan). They all worked as one when the Runt produced H&O’s War Babies album 37 years ago. If you don’t know from this oft-maligned personal fave of mine,  oh ye “Kiss On My List” fans, dig this: Tonight (Wed. Sept. 15) you can catch Rundgren and Hall on the web series Live From Daryl’s House (livefromdarylshouse.com).

Reunited for the first time in eeooooooooooons doing “Better Watch Your Back” from War Babies, seven of each other’s best and a few covers by The Soul Survivors and Average White Band, this promises to be just a lick and a taste of the Philly brand cream cheese to come. Yum.

Maybe they’re meant as warnings of what’s to come if Mayor Nutter’s taxes aren’t implemented — if Harrisburg doesn’t warm to the idea — and nothing more. Maybe they’re meant as the harbingers of doom they appear to be, and things are as bad as they seem.

Friday morning, signs went up on every entrance to every library in the city’s system, from Central on down, reading thusly: All Free Library of Philadelphia Branch, Regional and Central Libraries will be Closed Effective Close of Business October 2, 2009.

Upon seeing such, I rang Andy Kahan, the Director of Author Events at Vine St.’s Free Library of Philadelphia and asked what this meant at first glance.

First is that all libraries are now in a diminishing borrowing period and that all materials will be due on October 1. As for events and readings, Kahan says, though signals are mixed, he and his staff are preparing for the worst.

“Author events would be the only program that continues and I’m in the process of negotiating with other nearby venues — just in case,” says Kahan. “Parkway institutions such as Friends Select School and Moore College of Art have stepped forward and offered their auditoria to meet our need. I’m trying to figure out which authors to place where based on the size of the audience and the institutions interest and projection capacity. I’m looking to nearby institutions because, in the event we can’t reach all attendees with news of the venue changes, people who just show up will know from our illuminated signs which parkway venue is hosting our event — and they won’t be late to the party.”

One Book, One Philadelphia programming doesn’t begin until January 2010 so it’s still a bit early for the Free Library’s event heads to look elsewhere — but they are prepared to take events elsewhere if necessary. Kahan is, like a lot of us, hopeful that Pennsylvania representatives will heed Mayor Nutter’s warnings. “On one hand the House seems willing to pass the 1% tax and pension deferments, which would allow the city to continue functioning; the Senate is not,” claims Kahan. “We’re optimistic they’ll work through their differences before the October 1 deadline.”

Kiss a librarian today. It may be one of your last chances for a while.

A heads up and a hand out meebee, kids. Our good friend Ramon Martinez, host of Saturday’s Y-ROCK Internacional clued me into yet another crime against musicians touring Philadelphia. No, not the one that sends them to Geno’s or Pat’s over Jim’s. This is the one where all their equipment gets stolen here. This time, the band is Satellite District from Atlanta, the opening act for Monte Negro on Kung Fu Necktie’s Monday night (Aug 17) bill.

It was Satellite District’s second night staying at the Microtel Inn & Suites by the Philadelphia International Airport. After going to bed around 4 a.m. and waking up around 9 a.m., the Satellite’s found that their van had been broken into and an estimated $20,000 of gear stolen including a set of lights, lasers, and a light console.

WOW — these guys had lasers. Whoever robbed them must like Hawkwind circa 1974. Among the stolen guitars there was an Ivory Squire Strat, a Guild Blue Bird and a VOX AC30 amp. There’re no details on the bass and the drum kits.

When Martinez asked what could be done to warn touring bands about the five-finger discount local robbers seem to take on unsuspecting out-of-towners, my take is to tell them NOT to play Philly. This happens all the time and at different motels and hotels that aren’t Sofitel or somewhere pricy. Martinez started a fundraising drive for these guys on Facebook.

“I am bummed and I wish I knew how to prevent these things from happening in this city,â€� Martinez wrote me last night. “One thing is for sure, every time a band stays overnight, I’m hiring two burly dudes and sitting them outside their van. That’s the only way to keep these bastards away.â€�

But what if they steal the burly dudes?

OK, no more jokes. Help these guys out.

You make it so hard for me to stay away. No matter how I try to stay true solely to my slice of East Passyunk, you go and spring stuff on me.

I don’t know that I necessarily would’ve cared about tonight’s Esprit Philadelphia store opening (1729 Walnut St.). I’m not Espirit-y, if you get my drift. But I do think it’s sharp that you have this thing with local bands (OSO, Amy Crawford, Simon Spire, Love in Stockholm, Lion of Ido, The Shells) playing in your store this weekend. Every customer that buys a CD with them on it gets 25 percent off one item of their choice on August 22 and 23, when they show CD receipt/ticket at the cash register. Man, if I only bought CDs that’d be a steal for me.

My nails? I haven’t painted ‘em in a while, and when I did, I just schellacked them blue and they just seemed bruised. But the first Organic Nail Spa in the country (that’s what they say), Tierra Mia Organic Nail Spa (328 S. 17th St.), sounds like a cool green bet. Owners Karina Restrepo and Justin Mitchell are doing a spa thing, too, with soy-based wax-free hair removal, but it’s their exclusively water-based nail polishes that’s their claim to fame. I’m all over organic claims to fame.

And though I know my gal-pals in the house will be hunting down bargains at Plage Tahiti’s 40th Anniversary rager (128 South 17th St.) Aug 20 to 22 — a big deal for every neighborhood lady-who-lunches — I’ll be at the August 20 opening event at Y-3 at Joan Shepp (1616 Walnut St.). I know Debbie Harry beat me there by stopping in last week, according to my shopping spies. But the Y-3 jawn is collabo between Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto (whom I adore) and Adidas, with clothing and accessories for the mens and the ladies-s.

I’ll buy something sporty to wear to that Art in the Age ROOT liquor/chef Sean Ford tasting at Alfa (1709 Walnut St.) — Aug. 25, $35 per person. Yum. Now if Dana Bank will only tell me where she’s slipping that possible Town Home (currently at 126 S. 19th St.) shop-boite at, we’d be golden.

There’s a Channel 6 helicopter is over my house — not because I was sun-bathing, but rather because a gunman supposedly robbed an armored car nearing the South Philadelphia Conestoga Bank at the intersection of 10th and Catharine. Apparently a guard in the car opened fire on the suspect. 6ABC has a description of the suspect.

For anyone keeping track on the still un-named James L. Brooks’ film’s boy club celeb eat-out-a-thon, Owen Wilson has somehow moved up to the front of the pack. And at Parc no less, the Stephen Starr hot spot at Rittenhouse Square. Oh sure, Jack Nicholson ate there and smoked there (outside) and strolled along the Square to the pleasant astonishment of those around him. And most certainly Paul Rudd hit the less-than-Parc-y Oh Shea’s! around the corner for a brew with the workingman barroom habitués. But Wilson, in Philly previously for Marley and Me, has made Parc his nearby hotel-home-away-from-home, as he’s supped there once by himself, stopped in to have a tall frosty beer while wearing his slippers and hit the Francophile noshery with Rudd in tow just last night. Keep up the good work, Owen.

Don’t act like you don’t care, GaGa fans and pro-Aguilera Brit Haters. THE CIRCUS STARRING BRITNEY SPEARS is coming to the Wachovia Center Aug. 30, with tickets going on sale this Friday, June 19, at 10 a.m.

Hopefully there’ll be more of this (NSFW) than that.

Two Icepacks ago, I sprung on you the sad surprise that Jen Karwoski — Valanni Quizzo Mistress Extraordinaire, Kinky Division — was leaving her post on Spruce Street near the end of June after nearly five years of dick jokes and figurative titty twisters. Going to Sweden for her sister’s wedding: check. Staying to clown the Swedes: check. But certainly the woman whose made Quizzo a naughtier game to play wouldn’t leave her friends high-n-dry without a wicked quizzstress. So on June 16 at 10:30 p.m., she and several judges — probably including me — will take all comers at Valanni (1229 Spruce St.) so that on June 23, she’ll crown the next host of Kinky Quizzo. (She’ll ask each prospective replacement three special questionsthree special questions she’ll wrangle for each participant.)

“Got a big mouth, a dirty mind?” asks Karwoski. “Are you quick witted, well-read? Always dreamed of talking Dirty Sanchezes and getting paid? Think you can handle the mic? I’ll be the judge of that. Bring it!  Compete to be the next Kinky Quizzo host at Valanni.â€�

Between now and then though, I insist that if you’re going to make your way to Jen’s hart, you should start with a few dirty letters of encouragement. If you’re feeling squirrelly, write us at clog@citypaper.net to tell us how Kinky Quizzo Hostess-like you really are.

When I Clogged the sad news that longtime World Café Live booker Karl Mullen was leaving his post for a myriad of reasons (health being the primary one), I mentioned too that the rumor going right-round was that WCL honcho Hal Real was going to nab either Laura Wilson (a one-time Upstairs at WCL booker) or Bill Taylor (WCL in Delaware) for the Philly job.

As of Thursday, June 4, Wilson returned from L.A. to take over the position of booker to both floors of WCL. “She handled most of the Upstairs bookings, but also partnered with Karl there and on Downstairs bookings, as well,” said Real. “She knows us, knows Philly and the regional scene and knows national agents, many managers and everything. All good.” Congrats.

It’s been a rough 2009 for World Cafe Live’s Karl Mullen. He’s been In Ireland, away from his Philly booking gig, dealing with the quickly degenerating health, then passing of his father. At the funeral of his dad, Karl fell ill, only to arrive home to find himself diagnosed with a life-threatening intestinal condition that’ll require him to get part of his colon removed.

Though recovering for the last month, as of Tuesday morning, Mullen – he’s booked WCL since its start – will be leaving WCL. There are health reasons to consider, certainly. We’ll tell you more about the situation as the day progresses after speaking with WCL honcho Hal Real. We’re heard rumors, before speaking with Mullen, that either Laura Wilson (a former Upstairs WCL booker) or Bill Taylor (who is taking care of WCL on Delaware) will take over in West Philly. Stay tuned.