Supportive dad and former “Law & Order” star Sam Waterston, who will appear in the new Aaron Sorkin drama “The Newsroom” on HBO, was in Boston with his wife, Lynn Louisa Woodruff, Wednesday night to see his son (and her stepson) James Waterston appear in the opening-night performance of the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of “Private Lives.” The elder Waterston, who’s a Massachusetts native, was a frequent visitor to the Hub in 2010 when James appeared ...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s rumored girlfriend, supermodel Erin Heatherton, was in Marblehead filming a car wash scene for the movie “Grown Ups 2” earlier this week. She tweeted to Adam Sandler’s production company after wrapping the gig, “had a blast, if you ever need a sponge bath ...

Fox 25 made the official announcement on Wednesday that Sorboni Banerjee will join its morning team as an anchor and reporter. She’ll start on June 11. Banerjee had worked at Channel 7.

Salvatore’s on Washington Street hosted an opening party on Tuesday night for “Beauty and the Beast,” which runs at the Opera House through June 3. Revelers included two local cast members — Jimmy Larkin, who’s from Natick and plays LeFou, and Jessica Lorion Haugh, who’s from Taunton and plays Babette.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital supporters Thea and James Stoneman attended a gound-breaking celebration on Wednesday for the hospital’s Thea and James M. Stoneman Centennial Park. The park will be located at Francis Street and Huntington Avenue and will have parking underneath.

Elizabeth Banks fans who follow the actress on Twitter probably noticed on Wednesday that “The Hunger Games” star — who was raised in Pittsfield — has a new website correspondent, Boston’s own Kelly Malone, best known for her voice work for the Bruins and Mix 104.1. Banks introduced Malone on her the ever-expanding ElizabethBanks.com website with the note, “I’m from Massachusetts and as I said last week, I’m looking for fun bloggers ...

Some people never learn – like Jon Strymish. Just a few months after selling the New England Mobile Book Fair, the Newton bookstore owned by his family for over 50 years, Strymish and two partners have plans to open another bookstore, this one in Portsmouth, N.H. “I guess I’m not very bright,” joked Strymish...

Boston Beer Week runs through Sunday, which means that people are sipping — and sniffing — local brews all around town. On Tuesday night, the week was celebrated on both sides of the river with parties at venues such as Cambridge Brewing Company, Five Horses Tavern in Somerville, Canary Square in Jamaica Plain, and Bukowski Tavern in Boston. Revelers at the Cambridge Brewing Company Beer Week kick-off party included Chris Tkach of Idle Hands Craft Ales and CBC brewers ...

There are hands-on directors and then there’s Jason Reitman. In town preparing to shoot “Labor Day,” Reitman dropped by the movie’s production office in Natick this week to help Boston Casting’s Angela Peri find extras for the film. We’re told hundreds of actors showed up and Reitman, whose credits include “Juno” and “Up in the Air,” roamed the room with his assistants saying things like...

Sounds like Tom Brady would really like to host “Saturday Night Live” again. Chatting Wednesday with WEEI morning hosts John Dennis and Gerry Callahan, Brady said he had a blast hosting the show in 2008 and would welcome the opportunity to do it again. “That was a great experience. Like a lot of things, you go through them and you don’t appreciate them until they’re over,” he said.

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Tom Brady will never be confused with Woody Allen, but the Pats QB does have a funny bone. That was evident when he hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 2008 – who can ever forget the “Tom Brady’s Falafel City” skit – and in the “Funny or Die” clip in 2010 featuring Justin Bieber. The signal-caller’s latest bit of silliness comes in another “Funny or Die” clip in which ...

Guests attending Gloucester Stage Company’s spring gala Friday should not be surprised if they start humming the Miss America theme while sipping their wine. That’s because the fundraiser, which is being held this year at Bass Rocks Golf Club, will feature not one, not two, but three Miss Americas.

So what if the team is off to a slow start? “Red Sox Night” was still a hit with Pops fans Thursday as legends Jim Lonborg and Luis Tiant both picked up batons in a baseball-themed program at Symphony Hall. Also joining in the fun was manager Bobby Valentine, catcher Kelly Shoppach, Wally the Green Monster, and Dropkick Murphy Ken Casey, who’s come a long way from his days as a bartender at Symphony Hall.

SBLI’s Bob Sheridan and Watson’s Candies owner Virginia Griffin were honored at the Home for Little Wanderers’ annual Voices & Visions fundraiser at the Seaport World Trade Center this week. WCVB-TV’s Liz Brunner emceed.

Sox third, er, first baseman Kevin Youkilis and new wife Julie Brady hosted a benefit for the ballplayer’s charity, Youki’s Kids, at the Harpoon Brewery the other night. The event was emceed by NESN reporter Jenny Dell and attended by teammates...

A shout-out to Extreme members Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt, who’ll belt out the national anthem before Saturday night’s Sox game. They’ll be joined on the field by Darren Parker, a superfan who’s affectionately known as “NunoFreak” to the band and other fans. But he’s also struggling with an inoperable brain tumor, so after the anthem Bettencourt will give Parker one of his Washburn Nuno Bettencourt N4 guitars...

NBC News national correspondent Janet Shamlian and Charles Mahtesian, national politics editor of Politico, were in town this week to help celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator, the oldest England language Armenian newspaper. Shamlian and Mahtesian received the 2012 Award of Excellence in Communications during the party at the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

Never mind what we told you earlier this week about EuraMedia 2012, the Russian-centric tech conference that was slated to take place at the Seaport Hotel June 13-16. Under somewhat bizarre circumstances, the whole thing has been abruptly called off, including the fashion show that was going to feature “Sex and the City” actress Sarah Jessica Parker, and...

Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris, who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism last month, quizzed Brookline-bred late-night guy Conan O’Brien about comedy the John F. Kennedy Library on Thursday evening. O’Brien is on the Board of Directors for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and has signed on to be the honorary chair of the Foundation’s New Frontier Network ...

Boxer Danny O'Connor was at McGreevy’s on Wednesday for a weigh-in before Thursday night’s professional boxing match to benefit the Claddagh Fund at the House of Blues. On hand for the weigh-in was Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey, who also runs McGreevy’s and the Fund.