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An Extreme example of lucre's allure
If agents have been after Extreme to reunite for years -- and they have -- what's lured Paul Geary, Pat Badger, Nuno Bettencourt, and Gary Cherone back now? Lucre. The Boston-based band, which broke up in '96, was offered a bundle of dough to play a few dates this summer, and they accepted. (They're at the BOA Pavilion June 30.) ''We all remain good friends, so why not?" says Geary, who formed a management company after Extreme adjourned. Clients include Smashing Pumpkins and Boston's own Godsmack, whose new CD ''IV" debuted this week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. . . . Speaking of Godsmack, Sully Erna swears he's not the cheating kind anymore. In a revealing interview with Penthouse, the ink-stained singer says he was ''de-rock-star-ized" after two weeks in the desert with Native American medicine men.
Things don't ad up for Yanks at Fenway
Fenway Park is plastered with ads -- even the visitor's clubhouse. The New York Times reported yesterday that the Yankees were amused to discover that Marquis Jet sponsors the tiny space. There are 15 signs promoting the private jet company, every player's chair and nameplate has the company logo, and the towels are embroidered with the company name. . . . Spotted entering Fenway'sFilmmaker pitches ‘12 and Holding’
Director/producer Michael Cuesta was in town yesterday to promote his new film ''12 and Holding," which opens in Boston on May 26. Cuesta, who previously directed ''L.I.E." and several episodes of ''Six Feet Under," worked on the movie with writer Anthony S. Cipriano, a Providence native. . . . It was the kind words -- not the $100,000 cash -- that meant the most to Richard Wilbur, this year's winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. (In announcing the prestigious award, Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine, said: ''If you had to put all your money on one living poet whose work will be read in a hundred years, Richard Wilbur would be a good bet.") Wilbur, who's lived in Cummington for 40 years, said it's ''every poet's ambition to write three or four poems that are hard for people to get rid of." Now 85, the former US poet laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner said he still writes obsessively. ''But it's not as easy when you're an old man."A double celebration at WCVB
Some 200 people trekked out to WCVB-TV's Needham studios Tuesday night for the annual Rosie's Place spring gala that also marked the 80th birthday of Kip Tiernan, the founder of the privately funded women's shelter. Jazz vocalist Rebecca Parris provided the entertainment and Channel 5's Susan Wornick worked the crowd as MC of the live auction. . . . Frank Black's become a father again. The Pixies frontman and wife Violet have a baby girl, Lucy Berlin Thompson, to go along with son, Jack Errol Thompson. The Boston-bred singer, who lives in Oregon these days, told the folks at FrankBlack.net that his daughter is gorgeous.Albright will be busy in Boston
Madeleine Albright, secretary of state during the Clinton administration, will be at the Commonwealth Institute's luncheon today to sign copies of her latest book ''The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs." While in town, she's slated to stop by WGBH's studios to film a segment for ''Greater Boston" with host Emily Rooney. Speaking of Rooney, she's the keynote speaker for the New England Institute of Art's commencement on May 14. . . . David Gergen, US News & World Report's editor-at-large and former White House adviser, will speak at Suffolk University's commencement on May 21 at the Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253. 
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