Dan Gross Close call for traffic reporter
CBS 3 S Bob Kelly is usually the one reporting on accidents on I-95, but Saturday night the traffic anchor was part of a three-vehicle crash near Woodhaven Road.
Kelly, who was on-air yesterday despite a sore rib cage and arm, was heading home from a wedding in his month-old silver Range Rover in the right lane when a car in the left lane swerved into the center, forcing a minivan there into Kelly s lane.
All three vehicles, Kelly said, ended up on the side of the road. His rock-solid Range Rover was the only vehicle not to flip over.
Kelly says a state trooper on the scene told him that the female driving the left lane car would be cited for DUI.
She and her female passenger were taken to Frankford Torresdale Hospital. The experience was surreal for Kelly, who is used to pointing at video screens showing viewers crash delays.
Wow, did I just step out of the camera and onto 95? Kelly remembers asking himself, while shaken up after the crash. He felt like I got punched in the nose, by his deployed air bag.
Kelly, whose traffic updates are also heard on 94 WYSP and 98.1 WOGL, didn t want to scare his wife, Colleen, or wake their two daughters, so he called a buddy for a lift home to Mount Laurel.
Stars coming for theatre gala
Edie Falco, Doris Roberts, Nathan Lane, Richard Thomas, and playwrights Edward Albee and Terrance McNally will be among special guests at an Oct. 22 black-tie gala to open the new Suzanne Roberts Theater (Broad & Lombard).
A public ribbon-cutting of the theater named after the Comcast matriarch takes place Oct. 21.
CBS 3 s Pat Ciarrocchi emcees a 1 p.m. ceremony, followed by a theater tour from 2 to 4 p.m.
At 7 CBS 3 s Angela Russell emcees the lighting of the marquee. The theater s first production is the new Stephen Sondheim musical, Being Alive, which will run Oct. 24 to Dec. 2.
Poker amateur wins big $$$
Moorestown s Adam Gerber is $604,000 richer after winning the United States Poker Championship Sunday at Atlantic City s Trump Taj Mahal. Gerber, 36, sales manager at Provident Packaging in the Northeast, has been playing poker for only three years, and studied the game for a year before ever playing.
He won $300,000 and second place at a World Poker Tour event last month. Gerber says although he was a pretty bad student at Abington High and at the University of Delaware, he and his teachers always knew I had something, and I found it. There s not much luck involved with poker, it s all skill. His wife, Melissa, cheered him on over the weekend. Gerber, a family man, enjoys practicing his hands online after putting sons Daniel, 4, and Jack, 2, to bed.
Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
Economist, writer, and Ferris Bueller s teacher, Ben Stein, is the guest speaker at the Main Line Chamber of Commerce s Red Carpet Dinner Oct. 30 at the Drexelbrook Corporate Events Center in Drexel Hill. NBC-10 s Lori Wilson is the mistress of ceremonies. Stein s no slouch at speeches, as he s a former speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Individual tickets are $125 and available, with more info, at mlcc.org.
Teen to tour with B. Marsalis
Sixteen-year-old Justin Faulkner was behind the drum kit Sunday night with saxophonists Bootsie Barnes and Larry McKenna for their sold-out show at the Sedgwick (7137 Germantown). Barnes told the crowd that the Southwest Philly teen would tour with Branford Marsalis later this month and pointed out Faulkner s mother, Carol, in the crowd. Carol, who has terminal cancer, recently told 6ABC s Lisa Thomas-Laury that she ll attend her son s shows in Tacoma, Wash., and San Antonio, Texas, and that seeing Justin find success at an early age is her saving grace.
Out and about
Cheryl Salt James, Sandy Pepa Denton and DJ Spinderella pushed it at Atlantic City s Borgata last weekend. The rappers were taping for The Salt N Pepa Show, which debuts soon on VH1. The ladies relaxed at Spa Toccare, dined at Ombra and spent time gambling.
* Hottie Rosario Dawson was among the cast of Mark Webber s Explicit Ills celebrating at Rae inside the Cira Centre Sunday night at the wrap party for Webber s directorial debut. *
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