Ailing Aerosmith drummer may sit
Correction: Because of a reporting error, a Names item in yesterday's Weekend section about MTV's ''Real World" listed the incorrect date for tryouts at The Rack on Clinton Street near Faneuil Hall. Casting is taking place today, starting at 10 a.m.
Here's a news flash: Word is Joey Kramer may not be with Aerosmith when the band hits the road next month to promote its smokin' new CD ''Rockin' the Joint." But if you think Kramer has been booted, ''Dream On." Kramer, who attended the Boston Music Awards the other night, is recovering from a shoulder injury, so the band will ''Just Push Play" without him, at least temporarily. Who'll be behind the skins when the band plays Mohegan Sun and the TD Banknorth Garden? One option, we're told, is Kramer's kid, Jesse. Interestingly, Bebe Buell was also spied at the BMAs. The gold standard of rock groupies, Buell's been linked over the years to Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Todd Rundgren, Elvis Costello, and, of course, Aerosmith screamer Steven Tyler, with whom she had a daughter, the lovely Liv Tyler. . . . Which area college has the most clout on the US Supreme Court now that John Roberts is chief justice? Harvard? Nah. Try Holy Cross. Roberts's wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, is an alum and sits on the board of trustees, as does Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, also a Holy Cross alum. One of Justice Antonin Scalia's sons is also a grad.
Reality bites back
Attention, ''Real World" wannabes: Show up at the Rack today. Starting at 10 a.m., MTV will be looking for likely suspects to cast in season No. 18 of the popular reality TV series. (Season No. 17 is filming now in Key West.) But at least one ''Real World" refugee warns wannabes to beware. Billerica's own Danny, who appears on this season's ''Real World: Austin," says MTV manipulates situations to make the characters look bad. ''They basically [expletive] on my mom, and that made me and my family feel really bad," said Danny, whose mother died while the show was taping. ''You basically sign your life away when you do the show.". . . Friends of David Fioravanti, ''The Biggest Loser" flunky accused of using a racial epithet in an e-mail to a fellow reality TV type, say he's not a racist. Two African-Americans who were also on ''The Biggest Loser" say it's unfathomable that Fioravanti would use such a slur. (In an e-mail to Shawn Manning, the Quincy kid who starred on ''The Real Gilligan's Island," Fioravanti used the n-word.) ''Sounds like a crock to me," said Maurice Walker, who lives in Nashville. Likewise, Andrea Baptiste of Boston said, ''I'd stake everything I have that he didn't write that."
Salem State welcomes Redford
Robert Redford spoke at Salem State College last night, talking to a sold-out crowd not only about his career, but also his interest in conservation. The 68-year-old Sundance Kid was invited in part because Salem State is in the midst of a campaign to raise money for a state-of-the-art arts center. Before Redford's remarks last night, the college announced the center will bear the names of Bernard and Sophia Gordon, a Manchester by-the-Sea couple who've pledged $2 million toward the facility.'Hooligans' taps anti-violence message
Writer-director Lexi Alexander brought her lastest film, ''Green Street Hooligans," to two area theaters for screenings last night to ''open the conversation" of how violence among young people transcends race, class, or location, said the Rev. Ray Hammond. Starring Elijah Wood as a young guy who gets bounced from Harvard before taking up with a gang in London, the movie was scheduled for screenings at Harvard Square and Fenway last night. ''We've invited young people from around the area and even the colleges to come," said Hammond, who cofounded Boston's Ten Point Coalition. Alexander was to host a Q&A at the Harvard Square screening as a way of ''engaging the audience to discuss this message," Hammond said. . . . While Kennedy scion Christopher Lawford was preparing for a newspaper interview yesterday at the Charles Hotel, he was spotted by movie producer Lawrence Bender who invited Lawford to a hush-hush screening in Cambridge. Quentin Tarantino and Bender are working on ''Inglorious Bastard" -- the followup to the ''Kill Bill" movies. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253. 
