Nimoy is livin' large
No one would guess that actor Leonard Nimoy has a wild side. But the 74-year-old Boston native who played Mr. Spock on ''Star Trek" sure likes the ladies. An amateur photographer, Nimoy has been focusing on the female figure for about 15 years, and his newest black-and-white shots are up now at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton. Titled ''Maximum Beauty," the show is a series of provocative pics of meaty maidens, some nude and some not. On the phone from LA, Nimoy explained why bigger is better, at least for now. ''The challenge for me is to find the beauty in it," mused the originator of the Vulcan mind meld. ''I'd taken pictures of a very large lady -- she was somewhere between 250 and 300 pounds -- and I was frankly surprised by the reaction I got to those pictures, and wanted to explore that." While these weighty women don't have what you'd call the classic look, they're appealing in their own way. ''People are buying the prints, though it's not the same people who put Linda Evangelista on the wall," he said. ''These are not pretty pictures for decorative purposes." Nimoy, who delivered The Boston Globe as a boy, is sorry to say he doesn't get back East much, but he will be in Boston next spring for the 100th anniversary of the West End House Boys & Girls Club in Allston. ''Unlike Bill [Shatner], I don't do a lot of traveling," he said. ''I do the occasional [''Star Trek"] convention, but I'm busy with my photography."
Crystal headed this way
After a wildly successful run on Broadway, Billy Crystal's autobiographical one-man show is headed to Boston. ''700 Sundays," in which Crystal cracks wise while playing some of the humorous characters who influenced him as a boy growing up in the Big Apple, opens a two-week stand at the Opera House Oct. 18. In its opening week on Broadway, ''700 Sundays" set a record for the highest weekly gross at the Broadhurst Theatre, and then topped that every week of the run. Among the many hilarious childhood memories is one involving a borscht belt dining room and ''1,000 Jews fighting for end cuts."
She’s got the prime minister’s ear
If she's tardy handing in her dissertation, Amal Jadou's advisers at the Fletcher School at Tufts should cut her some slack. The 31-year-old postgrad is busy counseling Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei behind the scenes. (Jadou is the PM's go-to gal on US-Palestinian policy questions.) Raised in a Palestinian refugee camp, Jadou's hoping to see the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate resolved without war. Her dissertation, by the way, is on the United States' role as Middle East mediator under President Clinton.
Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.
‘Cattle’ call
Talk about dubious distinctions: Two of the 10 trust-fund children featured on ''Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive" are Emerson alums. The E! reality show rolls tape while the gilded group saddle up for the first time without their silver spoons. Alex Quinn (inset), son of the late Oscar-winning actor Anthony Quinn, and Courtenay Semel, daughter of
Around town
Fans of daytime TV descended on Faneuil Hall Saturday to mingle with Jeff Branson of ''All My Children," Bree Williamson from ''One Life to Live," and Matt Marraccini, who plays Jesse on ''General Hospital." The soap actors were in town as part of ABC Daytime's ''Fun in the Sun" tour.
And we ran into Johnny Damon's wife, Michelle Mangan, and a crew from NESN at this weekend's Joe Cronin Memorial Jimmy Fund Fishing Tournament in Osterville. (For more on the event, see Party Lines below.) . . . Gold medal marathoner Frank Shorter intended to bestow a special pair of sneakers on Congressman Bill Delahunt before yesterday's Falmouth Road Race but forgot them at home. Instead, Shorter showed up at the prerace party hosted by SBLI's Bob Sheridan and gave Delahunt a smelly old pair of George Regan's sneaks. Guess it's the gesture that counts.
