Joseph Castanon is Denver’s latest pint-sized movie star.
The 8-year-old actor is living with his folks in L.A. these days after spending his first six years in Denver. He sang and danced here with a Colorado youth group before going Hollywood. He plays Adam Sandler’s son in the upcoming movie “Click.” You can see him in the TV ads for the flick, throwing a baseball to a bully and, with the help of dad and his time-machine universal remote, hitting the kid in the forehead.
“He was very funny and nice to me,” Castanon says of Sandler. As was Henry Winkler in “Click” and Jennifer Love-Hewitt in “Ghost Whisperer.” She threw him a birthday party on the set and took him out to play miniature golf. Cool!
Castanon will be marching the red carpet at the opening of “Click,” which he figures will be the best movie Sandler has ever made, ever. You see more of Castanon on CBS in episodes of “Jericho” and the “Lonesome Dove” prequel “Comanche Moon.”
The nose knows
KUSA-Ch. 9’s entertainment guy Kirk Montgomery says the rumors are true – he’s getting a nose job.
Well, not exactly. He’s going under the knife for sinus surgery. He’ll be off the air for at least two weeks. “It will be painful, uncomfortable but, alas, not cosmetic,” he writes.
Sie the movie
Allison Sie, Denver-raised daughter of Starz founder John Sie, was back in town for a screening of her movie “Americanese” Thursday night. She was raised in Aurora, the movie was screened at the Aurora Asian Film Fest, and her character’s name in the movie is Aurora.
The post-screening Q&A was incredible, she says. “They adored the film. It was a great night.”
The movie returns this fall for the Denver International Film Fest.
Aspen eats
Harold Dieterle, winner of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” will be at the upcoming Aspen Food & Wine Classic for the Classic Cook-off against Jacques Pepin … Badda Bing! Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who plays Meadow Soprano on the HBO series, will be at the food fest pouring Cointreau in the Grand Tasting Tents.
City spirit
Sightem: John Elway at Saturday night’s opening of the Soiled Dove Underground and the Tavern Lowry … At the Dining Out magazine party at Jet Hotel Saturday night: Steve Olsen, Lina Klobholt, Kevin McDevitt, Holly Kylberg, Nancy Levine, Brooke Johnson, Megan Maddocks, Margaret Ebeling … Earth, Wind & Fire and Chris Botti (trumpeter and on-again, off-again boyfriend of Katie Couric) will play CityLights Pavilion Aug. 28 in a benefit concert for Steve Farber’s American Transplant Foundation … Buck Wild Saloon opens at Denver Pavilions Friday night, taking the space of the defunct Beyond. Billed as the “ultimate party bar” by owner Curt Sims, it’ll play a mix of country anthems. Look for sawdust and peanuts on the floor, an 18-wheeler Big Rig bar, an all-female Daisy Duke bar and an 1,800-square- foot dance floor … Sez who: “It’s never too late to give up your prejudices.” Henry David Thoreau
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
