By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Thursday, April 20, 2006

The typical Dewey Beach summer experience -- drinking, hooking up, walks of shame -- is what most people hide from parents and bosses. But Greg Godbout , owner of the Arlington Cinema 'N' Drafthouse, is banking that a few uninhibited singles will share their summer side with the world.

Godbout is producing his first movie, "Dewey Beach -- The Movie," a "reality-based" feature film starring two or three Washington professionals who "drive over the bridge and go berserk," he says. Berserk, but in a compelling-story-arc kind of way: He plans to follow the characters over the summer as they race down on Fridays, party like crazy, and drag back on Sunday. "We're absolutely trying to tell a story. We're definitely not 'Girls Gone Wild.' "

Inspiration came from his life: Godbout's brother and stepbrother went to Dewey every summer for years, and he met his wife there 11 years ago: "After I met her, I felt it wasn't the right place for an engaged person."

Open auditions will be on May 3 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Drafthouse. Participants must already be members of a Dewey beach house -- producers want a first-timer, a veteran and someone in between. "We're looking for someone who is trying to put together a professional career, but is living this other life," he says. Filming begins in mid-June with a bare-bones budget of $45,000, with hopes to release the 90-minute film by early next year.

Dewey Mayor Courtney Riordan said he hasn't heard about the movie, but hopes the filmmakers take a balanced view. "In the past, Dewey was much more of a party town -- they used to allow alcohol on the beach, partying on the beach, and that's not allowed anymore. On the other hand, we don't want to eliminate that this is a place where professionals can play."

Godbout isn't worried about lack of material: "There's a saying, 'Whatever happens in Dewey, stays in Dewey.' It's the same concept as Vegas."

Bob Dylan's new weekly gig as DJ begins May 3, and the people at XM Satellite Radio let us hear the first show. "It's time for Theme Time Radio Hour: dreams, schemes and themes," he rasps by way of introduction. "Curious about what the weather looks like? Just take a look out your window, take a walk outside." Then, an hour's worth of weather-themed songs -- Muddy Waters's "Blow Wind Blow," "Just Walkin' in the Rain" by the Prisonaires and "Place in the Sun" by Stevie Wonder . Future shows will have themes such as "drinking" and "cars," with few songs from the past 30 years.

The question, as always with Dylan: What does it mean? "Dylan's trying to do some weird blend of holy man on the FM radio, and bringing back those back pages of blues and lounge guys," said David Gaines , a professor at Southwestern University in Texas who teaches a course on Dylan. "He's using the medium of subscription radio as his way of playing musicologist." Like us, the prof doesn't have satellite radio. "I'll get the bootlegs," he said.

· D.C. native Mya with an entourage at Tuesday's Wizards game; sources could only report that the lovely R&B songstress was wearing a hat of some kind. Men!

· "Super Size Me" director/star Morgan Spurlock , filming interviews with folks on the street yesterday near 16th and K; his reps say he was taping an episode for the second season of his FX series "30 Days" but couldn't say what the questions were about. He's still got that mustache/goatee action going on.

· TomKitten, Day Two: As the world awaits the tiniest detail about Baby Cruise , People magazine reports that Suri has "lots and lots of dark hair and big, blue eyes," that new mom Katie Holmes opted for an epidural and felt so spiffy afterward that she left the hospital within 24 hours . . . and that it was the same Los Angeles hospital where Tom-nemesis Brooke Shields gave birth to her daughter, Grier , on the same day. Oooohhh!

· Nick-n-Jess, Postmortem: In a long, weepy interview with Rolling Stone, Nick Lachey says he was "blindsided" by Jessica Simpson 's announcement she wanted a divorce last fall, no matter if the rest of us saw it coming on MTV's "Newlyweds." He also admits that exposing their young-married-pop-star lives to reality-TV cameras might not have helped: "Jessica and I began playing these parts even when we were by ourselves." But the boy-band vet doesn't get the magazine's cover -- that honor goes to George W. Bush , whose presidency is deemed by historian-guest writer Sean Wilentz a "colossal historical disgrace."

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