Lawyer gets the McGillis treatment

(Correction: Because of a reporting error, the owner of Los Angeles radio station Indie 103.1 was misidentified in the Names column in yesterday's Living/Arts section. It is owned by Entravision Communications.<)

Nancy O'Brien Westveld admits she was a bit ambivalent when she learned that her story was being turned into a TV movie. ''It was exciting, of course, but I was so afraid I was going to be played by some silly girl -- Tori Spelling, for instance," said Westveld, the real-life prosecutor played by Kelly McGillis in ''Black Widower," which airs tonight at 9 on Lifetime. ''To be played instead by such an exquisite actress as Kelly, well, it's very flattering." Westveld, who grew up in Danvers and attended Faulkner School of Nursing before moving to the Midwest and getting a law degree, was an assistant district attorney in Detroit when she put the screws to businessman Lowell Edwin Amos, whose three wives all died in similarly suspicious ways. (Amos was sent away for life.) Westveld, who lives these days in suburban Michigan, said she and McGillis talked on the phone several times. ''She wanted to know how I went about things," said Westveld. ''She could have played me as John Doe for pete's sake. She didn't have to go through all that trouble." Who plays Amos? ''There's just one star in the movie and the rest of the actors come from Ottawa, Canada," said Westveld.

He’s got the credentials

It might sound like a lot of medical mumbo jumbo, but Neal Baer swears the characters on ''ER" and ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" know what they're talking about. A writer and executive producer of both shows, Baer graduated from Harvard Medical School, so you better believe Mariska Hargitay's character on ''Law & Order" isn't just making it up. ''You can't write those shows without being a doctor," he told us. In Boston to attend a dinner honoring Harvard educators Mary Jo Bane and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Baer said the med school is well represented in Hollywood at the moment. ''With Michael Crichton, 'House' writer David Foster, and me, there's been a real Harvard infiltration in medical series," said Baer, who calls ''ER" alum George Clooney a class act. But don't believe everything you see on TV. Baer said ''Grey's Anatomy" isn't realistic. ''It's 'Sex and the City Hospital,' " he joked.

Bosstone turned DJ gets the boot

So much for Dicky Barrett's DJ gig on LA's Indie 103.1. The former Mighty Mighty Bosstone got the boot from the Clear Channel station because, he says, he refused to be ''mainstream." Station execs, meanwhile, say the Norwood native was more focused on his announcing duties with talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. . . . Former Celtic Rick Fox arrived late to the LA party celebrating the premiere of ''Heist" because the former first-rounder was watching the Lakers-Celts game. ''The Celtics played a big part in my life," said Fox, who toiled for the green between '92 and '97. ''But I'm a Laker at heart because of the success we had here."

Joe Biden (above) breezed into town over the weekend to speak at the Massachusetts Bar Association's annual shindig. On hand to hear the Delaware senator try out some potential stump material were Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, Senate president Bob Travaglini, Mass. Bar Association bigshot Warren Fitzgerald, and David Yas, editor in chief of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. . . . Following their show at the Paradise Saturday, the lads in Snow Patrol -- singer Gary Lightbody, bassist Mark McClelland, and drummer John Quinn -- lubricated their vocal cords with a few pints at the Field in Central Square, where they were joined by opening act Republic of Loose. . . . The Four Seasons is in the market for a chef now that Jerome Legras is planning to return to Europe. Legras and wife Misaki, who's from Toyko, had a baby last summer, and they want to be closer to family in France. ''I'm not 100 percent sure where I'll be going," said Legras, 32, who has worked at the Four Seasons in Toyko and at Le Cinq in Paris. He'll stay on for a month, after which executive chef David Blessing will man the stoves until a new chef de cuisine is hired.

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