Inqlings | 'Hack' watch

By Michael Klein
Inquirer Columnist

Fledgling comic Kimberly Cambra, who attends the Comedy College at the Spaghetti Warehouse on Spring Garden Street, pulled around to the rear parking lot for her Tuesday night class, and whaaaat?

The back of the restaurant was not its usual subdued self. It was a garish facade bearing the name "Gentlemen's Paradise." Men and a couple of women were milling around. Some even had cameras.

Seriously, Cambra says. The crew from CBS's shot-in-Philadelphia series Hack was just doing a scene while the class cut up inside. (Bet somebody came up with a joke about "strip steak on the menu.")

Tomorrow's Hack premiere (9 p.m., Channel 3) will be a big deal at the VanDerziel home in Gloucester County. Amanda Danielle VanDerziel - a junior at Washington Township High who goes by Amanda Danielle - gets face time as a teen runaway confined to a Center City closet by a fiend she'd met on the Internet. Star David Morse handles the rescue, which was filmed here months ago.

"It's not the most glamorous part, but it was really fun to do," says the 17-year-old, who at 5-foot-9 models on the runway and in print for Philadelphia's Reinhard Agency as well as in print for Ford in New York. She expects a few friends to catch her one-time performance, but "it's my mom [Mary] who is so excited about it... . It's her whole party thing."

Hack watchers: Note the exterior of the house of main character Mike Olshansky (the cop-turned-hero cabbie played by David Morse). It's the South Philadelphia house of Michael Ridgway, who runs Maggiano's Little Italy restaurant in Center City.