Word's out on 'Brothers' bash

If Sunday's benefit screening of Mark Wahlberg's latest film, ''Four Brothers," is a big secret, someone forgot to tell the folks at Felt. The Ladder District club was crowing yesterday that it's been chosen to host the party after the screening, and the confirmed guests include Wahlberg, his costars Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, and Garrett Hedlund, director John Singleton, and various Patriots, Red Sox, and Celtics players. Proceeds from the invite-only party benefit the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation.

Reunion is good news

They hadn't seen each other in nearly 30 years. But it was just like old times when David Pollock played catch yesterday with Gary Lee Cavagnaro at the Brockton Rox game. In 1975, Pollock played pitcher Rudi Stein in ''The Bad News Bears," and Cavagnaro was Engelberg, his cute and chubby catcher. ''That movie was a watershed event in my life," confessed Cavagnaro, now part-owner of an electronics company in Texas. ''But it's been a long time since someone said, 'Hey are you that kid in 'The Bad News Bears'?" Pollock, who went on to star in both ''Bears" sequels, said he's puzzled that Paramount hasn't asked the original cast to hype the remake, but that won't stop him from seeing it.

Damon has a blast

Sox center fielder Johnny Damon doesn't know his own strength. Teeing off on the 18th hole at the Black Rock Country Club yesterday, the hirsute leadoff hitter was shocked when his ball literally blew up on impact. No, he's not on 'roids. Damon's wife, Michelle, played a practical joke on the player, putting an exploding ball on the tee. Such was the hilarity at the annual tourney benefiting Pitching in for Kids and the Franciscan Children's Hospital. Damon and Tim Wakefield each promised to give $1 million to the charities if they hit a hole-in-one, but neither managed a miracle shot. Others knocking it around yesterday included Hizzoner Tom Menino, filmmakers Bobby and Peter Farrelly, ex-Sox Luis Tiant, Dewey Evans, Bob Montgomery, and Jim Lonborg, reliever Mike Myers, and chef Todd English. Afterward, everyone sang ''Happy Birthday" to Wakefield, who turns 39 today.

Hollywood Hub-bub

As Mass. Film Bureau boss Robin Dawson was walking into the Wyndham Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood the other day, she had just enough time to tell us that plans are taking shape for this fall's Boston Film Festival. ''It's going to be good," said Dawson, who was on one of her regular treks to LaLa Land. One of Dawson's huddles was with the producers of the picture Ben Affleck plans to make of ''Gone, Baby, Gone." The actor is not only adapting Dennis Lehane's book for the big screen, he's also intending to direct. Word is, the story about private eyes in Dorchester searching for a missing 4-year-old girl might be filmed in Boston.

From bard to Bud

John Kuntz, who plays Guildenstern in the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's ''Hamlet," was dancing through Kenmore Square in a doctor's coat and a stethoscope yesterday. Kuntz was one of a number of actors hired for a Bud Light commercial that was shot around Fenway.

Reiser shines at Fenway

While in town over the weekend to promote his new movie, ''The Thing About My Folks," actor Paul Reiser managed to catch all three games at Fenway. With a Sox cap on his head, the ''Mad About You" star threw out the first pitch Saturday, and Sunday dined at Anthony's Pier 4.

After the Pops played at the South Shore Music Circus Saturday, conductor Keith Lockhart stopped by a party benefiting the South Shore Art Center.

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