Hats off to this Damon; touching all the bases
STILL, WE DECEIVE Being Matt Damon's publicist, Jennifer Allen says she routinely reads bogus stories about the movie star. But rarely, if ever, does the actor dignify these falsehoods with a response. "He doesn't let that stuff bother him," she said. But when the Cambridge-bred actor read in this space last week that he'd arrived at Yankee Stadium wearing a green ballcap, he just had to call. A diehard Sox fan, Damon wanted everyone to know that he risked life and limb to wear a Sox cap to the stadium. (It was his friend and fellow actor, Casey Affleck, who, lacking the courage of his convictions, wore the green hat.) So why, if he's such a big booster, did Damon sit out the Boston massacre Saturday? He was in Berlin for the premiere of "The Bourne Supremacy." Anyway, Allen said her client will catch plenty of the Olde Towne Team next year when he and Leonardo DiCaprio are in Boston for six months shooting "The Departed" with Martin Scorsese "He's looking forward to it," she said. So are we.
GRIN AND BEAR IT Either committed or crazy, Sox fans somehow managed to drag themselves back to the ballpark last night. Dazed but apparently undeterred by Saturday's disaster were Chad Gifford, whose
IF YOU PLAY, THEY WILL COME Neither rain nor humilating loss could keep the Red Sox faithful from their appointed rounds. Sitting together inside the Hall of Fame Club at Fenway were David, singer Paul Simon, and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd. In the stands, we also saw "Arrested Development" star Jason Bateman, chef Todd English, hizzoner Tom Menino, "Cheers" actor John Ratzenberger, and author Stephen King, who barked rather angrily at a Fox reporter. Former senate and UMass president Billy Bulger watched from the luxury suites in right field, and down the left-field line sat Sox legends Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, and Johnny Pesky. . . . Before the game, Peggy Henry, wife of Sox principal owner John Henry, was in her evening finest for the Storybook Ball at the Castle in Park Square to benefit the MassGeneral Hospital for Children. Then Henry and Shonda Schilling, wife of ailing Sox ace Curt Schilling, headed to the game to show their support. . . .. Actor Robert Wuhl, who played agent Arliss Michaels on HBO's "Arli$$," was in town for the Sox-Yanks series, hanging with Comedy Connection owner Bill Blumenreich. . . . Watching the game on TV at the Kowloon was former Babys and Bad English singer John Waite.RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY Spotted at Davio's after Friday's rainout were Yanks manager Joe Torre, coaches Willie Randolph and Mel Stottlemyre, and pitchers Javier Vazquez and Orlando Hernandez, and Hall-of-Famer Joe Morgan. . . . HBO star David joined Lyons and Sox vice chairman David Ginsberg at Lyons's Newbury Street boite Sonsie for dinner. (Reggie Jackson was also there.A HAND OFF On Jodi Applegate's last day on the Fox 25 morning show today -- she's off to the Big Apple -- look for her replacement to be introduced. It's former Channel 7 and Channel 4 anchor Kim Carrigan, who, ironically, was in the running for the Fox anchor slot in New York that went to Applegate. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.
