It’s the year for Colorado to star in the movies. But not really.
“Catch and Release” recently bowed, the Jennifer Garner/Timothy Olyphant rom-com set in an idealized Boulder – shot in Canada with a few days in the college town.
This summer, “Resurrecting the Champ” comes out and it’s set entirely in Denver, but it too was filmed almost entirely in Canada. A few days’ shooting here gives us some scenes with Josh Hartnett driving around town and one scene with Hartnett and John Elway in Elway’s.
The outer-space smackdown sequel “Alien vs. Predator: AVP2” is a Christmas Day release – and it’s set in Gunnison. But not one shot was filmed in town.
And on Friday, “Blades of Glory” skated into theaters. The Will Ferrell/Jon Heder comedy has the guys in Colorado learning to be the world’s first male pair skaters, then coming to the Pepsi Center to win the National Skating Championships. “We love you, Denver,” Ferrell shouts out to the crowd. “City by the Bay!”
Match with Mitch
Denver DA Mitch Morrissey is on “60 Minutes” tonight talking with Lesley Stahl about familial searches of DNA
databases.
Sound confusing? Well, it is.
In a segment called “Not-So-Perfect Match,” Stahl looks at procedures in Eng land, where they can track down the family members of someone who has DNA that’s close to what they’re looking for.
Morrissey is working on three such cold cases. Go to cbsnews
.com, click on “60 Minutes” for clips on the segment. And tune in to Morrissey to see how Denver is ahead of the curve.
Splattered
Ed Thomas, now editor of the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle, used to be a cop. He was working his beat at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival one year when wild man painter Denny Dent, the man with the Two-Fisted Art Attack, brought Thomas onstage and asked the crowd if he should paint his uniform.
YES!
Since then, Dent has died and Thomas hasn’t worn the uniform. It’s supposedly the only cop outfit painted by Dent, with his signature on the cap and the right pant leg.
Now Thomas is auctioning it off on eBay (go to “Denny Dent”). Bidding starts at $1,000 – and Thomas plans to give proceeds to the Glendale YMCA Strong Kids Campaign.
City spirit
Duey Kratzer has sold Cafe Mondo in Highland to John Balen, the bartender/ partner at Solera. Mondo will stay open as it morphs into Tribeka Caffe and Wine Bar. Balen is putting in a full kitchen and will open in June for dinner with an Italian flair … “Zoot Suit: Romeo & Juliet” is just what it sounds like, at the Buell one night only, May 4 … Happy 50th birthday to 2008 Dem convention organizer Chris Gates … Sam Fox, owner of North, talking to Christian Anschutz’s people about opening a restaurant in the NorthCreek project … Hayley Herst, Natalie Herrera and Monica Pleiman are the Association for Women in Communications honorees this year at the April 23 reception … Sez who: “When I’m not in a relationship, I shave one leg. So when I sleep, it feels like I’m with a woman.” Garry Shandling
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-954-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com. Take a peek at Husted’s next column at denverpostbloghouse.com/husted.
