If he looks like Pete Campbell, maybe... If he looks like 'Mad Men' star, maybe...

The sleazeball from "Mad Men" thrilled and confused patrons of Clubhouse Jäger.

Vincent Kartheiser, who portrays sleazy Pete Campbell on the acclaimed, Emmy-winning AMC show, reportedly told Tuesday night bar patrons he was back in his native state checking out real estate.

"He's looking for a house," said Judy Grunstrom, an architect and blogger at JustJudyJudyJudy.com. There's a photo of her with Kartheiser at JustJudyBits.com. "He grew up in Apple Valley. He was out with his friends, maybe three or four who live here," she said.

IF Wikipedia's accurate, Kartheiser may be in the market for something minimalist: He reportedly has been giving away or selling everything he owns, which is consistent with living ascetically, eschewing automobile ownership for walking and using mass transit. He currently lives in a bungalow he describes as a "wooden box" with no mirror.

"He's got a pretty distinctive voice he uses when he does that Pete Campbell character," said JustJudy, who was at the bar with an exec from the Onion. "The guy from Brooklyn [N.Y., who works for the Onion] just thought he [Kartheiser] was some dude from Minneapolis who looked like Pete Campbell. [Onion guy] was like, Oh my gosh, you can even do the voice! Then I said, 'It actually is him.'"

If you're at a Denny's...

Keep those eyes peeled for Oscar winner Charlize Theron next week.

For possible details I turn to an e-mailer unknown to me, Michael Hardin, who believes Theron will be in town on Tuesday and scenes will be shot at a Denny's and in a skyway.

Calling Lino?

The women of NYC are doing their part to prime Lino Rulli for the priesthood.

Sirius XM Satellite Radio's "The Catholic Guy," who got his start in broadcasting as Emmy-winning host of public access TV's "Generation Cross," brought his NYC-based radio show on the Catholic Channel to St. Paul for three days this week. Rulli, his NYC producer Maureen McMurray, assistant producer Lou Ruggieri and Twin Cities radio engineer Alan Flom set up shop at the St. Paul dinner table of Lino's parents, Gina and Angelo Rulli.

"I heard him announce for the first time he was coming home for 'Lino Rulli Day' on the show," his mom told me. "I said, 'Oh, you never really told me,' and he said, Mom, you knew." She said all she knew was that Lino has quipped, It will be a fine day when I come home, they'll have to name a day for me. (For the record, Lino returns to his hometown a couple of times a year to see his parents, and he calls or texts his mother every night.)

Some readers may recall that when Lino lived here there was a website, his connection to which remained fuzzy, devoted to his mating habits. But his mom is blissfully nonchalant on the subject of her only child's love life: "He made the statement to his father a ways back that if we wanted to assure having grandchildren, we should have had more kids. But I'm OK. I'm not one of those who has to have grandchildren. I know they're wonderful, but there are an awful lot of women who don't have children, so why worry about having grandchildren?"

Or a steady girlfriend? As Lino gamely reminded during our startribune.com/video interview, "I know, C.J., when I left I had promised you I was going to try and find a nice Italian girl. So, four years and one week in, how many Italian girls have I dated?" Oh, dear readers, you will have to see the video to hear his trick answer.

And because I knew you'd want to know, I also asked the single Catholic Guy if celibacy was on the dating menu. "It's not necessarily Lino's decision," he said, talking about himself in the third person even though he claims not to be a celebrity. "They say, You know, there really is something to waiting until marriage when they're with me."

If that's really his story, maybe it's time for him to embrace the priesthood? "The priesthood isn't a backup plan just 'cause you're ugly. The priesthood is a call from God, and he hasn't called me to it," said Lino.

God must be calling when Lino is wearing a radio headset.