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By Tom Blair
AIRWAVES: A crew from Bryant Gumbel's news-magazine show, which debuts this fall on NBC, is in Baja this weekend for a feature on bullfighting. They'll be shooting at a bull ranch southeast of Tijuana. And a pair of San Diegans figure in the story: Peter Rombold and Coleman Cooney, two aficionados who promote the sport of bullfightng with their traveling California Academy of Tauromaquia on this side of the border. (The school travels to avoid confrontations with the Humane Society.) . . . Bree Walker makes her long-awaited return to local TV news Monday, coanchoring at 4 and 6 p.m on NBC 7/39 (KNSD) . . . Gini Cavitt, who handles the weather on the early morning show and noon news at Channel 8, will be in New York next week as substitute weathercaster on the CBS Morning News . . . MTV cameras are in San Diego this weekend for interviews on the pros and cons of San Diego's controversial teen curfew. (They've been researching the ordinance with the help of SDPD's Bill Robinson.)
LIKE NO BIZ: San Diego's Film Commission is having a banner year under the direction of Cathy Anderson, its new commissioner. Anderson, who took the reins from Wally Schlotter a little over a year ago, is on track to set a record in her first year on top. In the fiscal year just ended, the commission returned more than $61 million to the local economy. That represents some 53,000 workdays for local talent and crew members and 24,000 hotel room-nights for visiting production companies. One of those companies produced the new movie G.I. Jane, starring Demi Moore. And Anderson has some hot projects down the road. Last month, she met with John Travolta on his proposal to start his own production company in San Diego.
SO MANY NAMEDROPS: Barry Manilow and his partner in Harmony, lyricist Bruce Sussman, have been in and out of San Diego working on their new (Broadway-bound?) musical at La Jolla Playhouse. Casting for Harmony has been completed, and previews are set to begin October 7 . . . Joe Namath, Broadway Joe of yesteryear, will be in town Tuesday to help Cox Cable promote the new 24-hour Super Bowl Channel. (He won his Super Bowl with the Jets in 1969.) Namath, who's reportedly still negotiating for a spot in the network's new lineup, will schmooze with the press during a small luncheon at Loews Coronado Resort . . . Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells have come a long way since their days as "The Professor" and "Mary Ann" on the Gilligan's Island series of the '60s. They'll be at Robinsons-May in Fashion Valley Saturday noon to help ballyhoo the store's grand reopening . . . Kevin Kernan writes his last sports story for the Union-Tribune Monday. He's quitting to return to his hometown New York and a job with Rupert Murdoch's New York Post . . . In the audience at La Jolla Playhouse this week: husband-and-wife actors Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. Their daughter, Roberta, has one of the leads in The Model Apartment at the Playhouse.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Cops are still trying to sort out the story this week of the teenage boy, suspected of being high on drugs, who went looking for sex in a Carlsbad mobile-home park. A senior citizens' mobile home park. The boy allegedly broke into at least four mobile homes and propositioned the old folks. Said he was with the Secret Service and under orders to make love to lonely people. One of the seniors says the teen made a lewd gesture, then said he wanted a kiss. And this is probably where the cops figured the lad was doing drugs: The object of the teenage boy's affections was an 83-year-old. An 83-year-old man.
Listen for Tom Blair's Life in the City on KOGO AM 600 weekday mornings at 7:08. Items for the magazine column or the radio column may be e-mailed.
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