Boch won't back Film Bureau bash

Folks attending the Mass. Film Bureau's annual Oscar Night party could be eating cold cuts now that one of the evening's chief sponsors has decided to walk. Auto magnate Ernie Boch Jr. said yesterday he won't be underwriting the March 5 party thrown by Film Bureau boss Robin Dawson and is throwing his financial support behind an Oscar Night party organized by Dawson's rival, Mark Drago. ''Last year's event was a little disappointing," Boch said, ''and I was a little uncomfortable that the money wasn't going to charity." Drago's event at the State Room, billed as the official ''Oscar Night America" party, benefits the Ellie Fund, a nonprofit breast cancer charity. ''This is going to be big," Boch promised.

Golden deals for snowboarding champ

Every Olympic Games, it seems, there's one gold medalist who captures our hearts, not to mention most of the endorsement deals. It's too soon to say who'll be the Picabo Street of Torino, but it could be Connecticut's Lindsey Jacobellis. The champion snowboarder, who's already appearing in a Visa ad and on a Frosted Flakes box, was introduced yesterday as Dunkin' Donuts' new pitch person. ''Iced coffee is a great pick-me-up drink," Jacobellis told us, sounding like she drank the corporate Kool-Aid instead of the coffee. The towheaded 20-year-old, who grew up in Stratton, Vt., said she wouldn't mind being on the Wheaties box a la Sarah Tueting and the 1998 US women's hockey team, but she doesn't snowboard for the celebrity. ''If it helps introduce the sport to kids, I'm all for it," she said. ''But competing always comes first."

Trump nixes talk of gubernatorial run

So much for the big Bill Weld/Donald Trump face-off. The Donald is dismissing speculation that he might run against Weld for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in New York this year. ''I have no interest in running for public office at this time," the 59-year-old billionaire real estate mogul told the New York tabloids. ''I'm not going to run for governor, because I'm having too much fun doing what I'm doing now. . . . I'm building things all over the country. I have one of the top shows on television. It's a little hard to leave all of that." That said, ''The Apprentice" star, whose model-wife, Melania Knauss, is expecting a baby, hastened to add that his decision not to run for governor ''doesn't preclude me from doing something [political] in the future."

Filmmakers off to a fast start

''Stiffs," which begins shooting this week, isn't just the first movie made in Boston this year. The indie film by North Shore brothers Frank and Joseph A. Ciota will be the first movie made in Massachusetts since Governor Mitt Romney signed legislation giving incentives to Bay State-based film and TV projects. Danny Aiello is slated to be in town tomorrow, and Lesley Ann Warren, who recently played Teri Hatcher's mom on ''Desperate Housewives," is also due in town for a day of filming. The Ciotas, whose credits include ''The North End" and ''Ciao America," are working again with EMC founder-turned-film producer Roger Marino. The first big-budget film of the new year? Disney's ''Daddy's Girl," about a football player who finds out he's a father.

Gold returns to traditional radio

At a time when everyone else is headed to satellite, Leslie Gold's going the other way. With her broadcast yesterday on 92.3 FM in New York City, the former Boston radio host returned to terrestrial radio. Known to her listeners as ''The Radio Chick," Gold had been on Sirius Satellite Radio, the new home of King of All Media Howard Stern and domestic diva Martha Stewart. In Boston, you may recall, Gold and Lori Kramer were ''Two Chicks Dishing" on WRKO, after which Gold teamed with Mike Adams -- now the nighttime host on WEEI -- for a short-lived show on WNEW-FM in New York. Gold's lineup this week includes a ''Happy Nude Year" segment, ''Saturday Night Live" star Darrell Hammond, and rock drummer Carmine Appice. She's broadcasting from Stern's former studios.

Green St. Gallery won't be closing

As Gilda Radner's excellent ''SNL" character Emily Litella would say: ''Oh, never mind." The Green Street Gallery is not being forced to close by the MBTA, as its founding director and curator James Hull wrote in an e-mailed press release the other day. It's true that the gallery's lease is up, but the MBTA is not evicting the groovy, award-winning gallery, which has been operating for seven years in the Green Street T station in Jamaica Plain. Seems Hull, who couldn't be reached yesterday, misunderstood the MBTA's year-end missive and concluded he had to close. For the foreseeable future, said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo, he's a tenant at will.

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