Don't call him a stage father
Given the choice, Campbell Scott would rather be on stage than screen. But the demands of the theater are too much for this devoted single dad. ''The theater's very comfortable to me, but I can't do it with my son," said Scott, whose mom and dad, Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott, were no strangers to the stage. ''I guess my ideal career would be directing movies and acting in plays." Scott was back on the boards in Boston yesterday, taking part in the Huntington Theatre's Breaking Ground Festival of New Play Readings, where he read from Ronan Noone's play ''The Atheist." Though not the superstar that his Oscar-winning old man was, Scott stays busy doing indie films -- he was great in ''Roger Dodger" and last year directed the well-received ''Off the Map." Next up is a TV pilot with Hope Davis and Bridget Moynahan. ''It's a drama about six intersecting lives, kind of like 'Crash: The Series,' " said Scott. Did he meet Bridget's boyfriend, Tom Brady, on the set? ''No. I didn't even know they were together. Someone told me later," he said. ''I'm a Jets fan."
Elsewhere on the Brady beat. . .
Keeping tabs on the Pats QB proved easy over the weekend. Saturday, the signal-caller made an appearance at the Big Apple Circus, where he and Roosevelt Colvin welcomed several hundred young'uns from Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang, the actor's Connecticut camp for sick kids. Afterward, we're told, Brady, Larry Izzo, and a few female friends dined at Douzo in the Back Bay. (If you must know, No. 12 requested a seaweed-free meal, asking that his sushi be wrapped in soy paper or cucumber skin.) Brady squired his sister to the circus, but he brought a different brunette -- Bridget? -- to the restaurant. ''You don't kiss your sister like that," said a witness.
Still a hometown Idol
''Idol" contestant Ayla Brown of Wrentham sang the national anthem before yesterday's Celts game. . . . Writing in The New York Times yesterday, Margo Howard made us laugh with her tale of trysting with a married man. Referring to him as ''my borrowed husband," the Cambridge-based advice columnist dropped no hints about her infatuate's identity, saying only he was a ''major player . . . and not particularly good-looking, certainly no hunk like the actor to whom I was formerly married." (That'd be Ken Howard.) It ended when she caught him cheating with yet another woman. ''Then I understood," she wrote. ''I had become the wife." . . .The musical revue known as ''Banned in Boston" was a laugh riot again this year. From the pope to President Bush, no one was spared Saturday. Judging from the crowd reaction, the best line may have been this: ''Governor Mitt Romney has reiterated his opposition to gay adoption because he believes every child should grow up in a family with one father and three mothers."
Cha-cha-chow
When Boston Ballet announced its ''Dancing With the Stars"-style competition, our reaction was, ''What took them so long?" Hadn't they seen POPSearch, the Boston Pops' shameless -- and wildly successful -- rip-off of ''American Idol"? Well, the wait is over. Rehearsals have begun for ''Dancing With the Stars of Boston Ballet," which will take place April 25 and star the ballet's best with B-listers such as Channel 5 meteorologist J.C. Monahan, Pats cheerleader Meg D'Avilla, MIX 98.5's Gregg Daniels, and the Phantom Gourmet's Dan Andelman. (Couples will perform a 90-second Latin dance routine.) ''I watch 'Dancing With the Stars' religiously," said Andelman. ''I love it. I'm a reality TV whore." Yes, but can he dance? ''I'm taking lessons, and I'm eating exclusively Latin foods to get my hips swiveling." Andelman's dance partner, Katelyn Prominski (above),said her man will need more than fancy footwork to win. ''It's about adopting the attitude, too," she said. ''The cha-cha can be sexy and serious. He'll need that Latin flair."
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