Vai not big fan of actor/kin

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, April, 2006 | by Dan Gross

VAI SIKAHEMA has mixed emotions about his nephew, "Napoleon Dynamite" starJon Heder.

"I love him as a person. He's a great kid," the NBC-10 sports director told us yesterday. But, as his wife and kids howled with laughter while watching the movie, Vai says he "just didn't get it."

Vai, whose wife, Keala, is the younger sister of Heder's father Jim, (a Temple med school grad) also gives a thumbs-down to "Benchwarmers," out now, in which Heder stars alongside Rob Schneider and David Spade.

"My nephew Reno Mahe and a lot of other Eagles would all go around quoting the 'Dynamite,' " says Vai, a former Iggle himself, who didn't tell the Birds about his connection to Heder because he was embarrassed after seeing the film.

We told Vai that we didn't like it...