Local man featured in Vaughn's new movie

Yes, that Vince Vaughn.

Former Arlington Heights resident Sebastian Maniscalco is in the new documentary film starring Vince Vaughn called "30 Days and 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland."

The documentary features Vaughn and four comedians -- Sebastian, John Caparullo, Ahmed Ahmed and Brett Ernest -- touring the country on a bus for 30 days and 30 nights with excerpts from the group's "Wild West Comedy Tour." The premiere of the movie was Monday in Hollywood, and it will open locally on Feb. 8.

Sebastian graduated from Rolling Meadows High School and got a degree in corporate communications from Northern Illinois University.

Nine years ago he moved to Los Angeles with the goal of becoming a comedian. Like comedians before him, he started out as a comedian/waiter. He took breaks from his day job as a waiter at the Four Seasons Hotel and ran over to the Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard to do a 15-minute nightly set, sometimes with his name tag still on his waiter's vest.

Two years ago, he went all in, quit the waiter job. Soon he landed opening gigs for Dennis Miller, Andrew Dice Clay, Anita Baker, Gladys Knight and more. Sebastian has also headlined at the Palms in Las Vegas and played major clubs throughout the country. He also appeared on Craig Ferguson, and most recently on Jay Leno in July 2007. Check out his Web site at www.sebastianlive.com

Policing others: The population of Arlington Heights hasn't changed all that much in the past 20 years; it's hovered around 75,000 residents, according to the US. Census.

The police station was built in 1978, but since that time, the police department has grown from about 80 employees to around 150 employees.

To fit the extra employees and their equipment, the 37,000-square-foot station should be about twice that size, or about 70,000 to 76,000 square feet, said Jim Lewis McClaren, a principal with McClaren, Wilson and Lawrie, at a committee meeting this week.

It's common for a police station to expand even though the population it serves has not, Lewis said.

Because Arlington Heights has a vibrant shopping community and is close to interstate highways and O'Hare, a lot of people are commuting through Arlington Heights, even if they're not exactly moving to Arlington Heights, Lewis said.

And those commuters get into car accidents, break laws and need police protection, too.

They're just not paying for it.