Inqlings: Happy coda for ailing Dutch girl

Need a love story today? There's been a heartwarming turn of events in the tale of 12-year-old

Hannah Max

, the daughter of musicians

Randy Max

and

Rachel Browne

, who perform in the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

A group of philanthropic Philadelphians has been raising money to fund possibly lifesaving cancer treatment for the girl at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since the family's Dutch insurance company declined to pay.

Benefactors had arranged a concert for Thursday by Rotterdam musicians - but they learned Friday that the insurance company had relented after media pressure in Europe and here (notably by Philadelphia Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky).

The concert has been canceled, according to an e-mail from arts patron Lee Shlifer, who praised the work of conductor Valery Gergiev; Roberto Diaz, Elizabeth Warshawer, and Tamara Nuzzaci of the Curtis Institute of Music; Barbara Govatos of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Barbara Korns of Temple University; and Lucia Zapatero and Andrew Rosenthal of the Penn Club of Philadelphia.

The story gets better. Money for the family had been raised through the Vetri Foundation for Children. Jeff Benjamin, business partner of foundation namesake and restaurateur Marc Vetri, said the donors he had contacted asked that the money go to the family for expenses.

Hannah is due in town today.

The downside: Many patrons had been hoping to meet Yannick Nezet-Seguin, the Rotterdam's maestro, who happens to be on the short list for music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Yoni Abadi

, 32, a lawyer from Tel Aviv, Israel, used the 26-foot-wide TV at the Piazza at Schmidts in Northern Liberties to pop the question Friday to Center City's

Tali Silberberg

, a master's of social work candidate at the University of Pennsylvania who will turn 26 this month. She said yes. Abadi, who had secretly flown in that morning, played a three-minute I-love-you video. The couple have been commuter-dating nearly a year.

Any port in a storm, right? During the coverage of the snow,

Action News

reporter

Nydia Han

was hunting up any soul brave or foolish enough to be walking near Rittenhouse Square for that ever-important man-on-the-street chat. As she approached a bundled-up man, she realized that he was her fiance, Dennis.

Several hotels did major media business during the snowstorm. Radio listeners and TV watchers reported how-are-yous from WIP's Ike Reese, WXTU's Razz, My106.1's Brian Soscia, WOGL's Frank Lewis, and assorted 6ABC people, all at the Crowne Plaza in Bala Cynwyd, while the Sheraton at 17th and Arch Streets was ground zero for 63 staffers of CBS3.

At least NBC10 reporter Justin Pizzi and his crew didn't starve. He packed a panini maker and a slow cooker in his truck.

In these cash-tight days, WHYY-FM (90.9) employed a novel approach to meet its latest fund-raiser's goal: The station extended it three days. WHYY toted $713,820 in pledges from 8,081 members in 12 days, compared with 2009's total of $627,813 from 7,348 pledges over nine days.

Ristorante Panorama, in the Penn's View Hotel in Old City, got word last week from Guinness World Records that its winekeeper/cruvinet, which holds 120 bottles, is the world's largest. The custom-built contraption, designed by owner

Luca Sena

in 1990 when he opened the restaurant, pressurizes open wine bottles with inert nitrogen gas to keep the vino in optimum condition.

Film director

M. Night Shyamalan

enjoyed dinner with a male friend Thursday at Vetri in Center City - and wore what my source tut-tutted were "torn jeans."

Danielle Fishel, who hosts E!'s The Dish, was in town last weekend for meetings at Comcast. She joined her boyfriend twice for sweets at Max Brenner, the chocolate-theme restaurant in Center City. They bought Valentine's Day chocolates for their grandmothers.

Soccer star Heather Mitts, 31, now on the Philadelphia Independence, and former Eagles quarterback A.J. Feeley, 32, are in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for their weekend wedding. The couple started dating in 2002 but cooled it off several years ago before reconnecting. He played last season with the Carolina Panthers.

Richard Simmons

, an unemployed man from Allentown, will turn up tomorrow on

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

(12:30 p.m., 6ABC).

Ted Farrell

, a police detective supervisor at Penn, will be in the hot seat Wednesday and Thursday.

Actor Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) is facing an IRS lien of nearly $1.13 million for two years of back taxes. The move, filed last month in Montgomery County Court, was reported last week by the Detroit News. (Howard's first name is misspelled "Terrance" in the complaint.) Howard has been down this road before. County records also show a state tax lien from 2005 for $14,430 and a federal lien from 2006 of $624,521, both of which have been settled, according to records.

Bon Jovi, launching a national tour that will stop at the Wachovia Center on March 23 and 24, is soliciting videos from bands performing the hit "Livin' on a Prayer." Winner in each city will have its video played on the big screen as Bon Jovi performs the song. Info is at http://prayer.bonjovi.com