Clarke has a 'Game' plan
Comedian Lenny Clarke's bid to be in Ben Affleck's film "Gone, Baby, Gone" may have failed, but he has landed a gig in ``The Game Plan," playing Dwayne ``The Rock" Johnson's doorman in the Disney football flick. Clarke's role was originally just a cameo, but director Andy Fickman liked Lenny so much he could get some serious screen time. In the movie, which begins shooting here shortly, ``The Rock" plays a hotshot QB for a fictional football franchise -- the Boston Rebels -- who wakes up one morning to discover he's got a daughter, played by 7-year-old Madison Pettis. Meanwhile, we're told, Disney is in final negotiations with Boston's Brian White to play one of Johnson's teammates. The part shouldn't be a stretch -- before turning to acting, the son of Celts stalwart JoJo White played for the Patriots and was a member of the Boston Blazers, the city's late great indoor lacrosse team.
Playboy holds a Boston casting call
What does it take to make the pages of Hugh Hefner's Playboy? Dozens of Boston-area beauties apparently would like to know, because they're all showing up at a casting call the men's mag is holding here. ``They're trying out for everything and anything Playboy -- special editions, Playmates, Cyber Girls, lingerie models, college girls -- everything," said the lovely Elisa Prevot, who's a Cyber Girl herself. (Aspiring centerfolds can show up today at the Sheraton Commander Hotel in Cambridge.) ``Nudity is a beautiful thing," explained Prevot, who hails from Houston. ``I'm proud to be a Playboy model." So what does it take? ``Well, if anyone's ever told a girl that she should be in Playboy, she should get down here," said Prevot.Newport jazz fest gets royal treatment
The JVC Jazz Festival in Newport is shaping up to be a royal good time now that Prince Albert II of Monaco is planning to attend with 300 of his ``closest friends." Albert, we're told, has invited Frank Sinatra Jr., Nancy Sinatra, and Celeste Holm, among others, to join him for a swank opening-night affair, featuring guitarist John Pizzarelli playing tunes by Ol' Blue Eyes. The private Aug. 11 shindig is Albert's way of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie ``High Society," which was partially shot in Newport and starred the prince's late mum, Grace Kelly. Albert's been much in the news lately after acknowledging the paternity of not one but two children -- a 14-year-old girl named Jazmin and a 3-year-old boy named Alexandre, the result of an affair with a Togolese flight attendant.Roth readies more horror
Director Eli Roth, whose horror flick ``Hostel" was a box-office success, swears the sequel will be no less terrifying. ``There will be plenty of blood and torture, I can tell you that," the Newton native told MTV News. . . . Chatting with the ``The View" vixens the other day, ``Rescue Me" star Denis Leary said he got a good idea for an episode after appearing on ``The Best Damn Sports Show." Leary said the show's co host, former Detroit Piston John Salley, pitched him on the idea of playing a drug dealer who accidentally sets fire to an apartment full of pot, and the firefighters all, er, smoke up. Leary liked the idea so much he asked Salley to do it.New look for Lockhart
Boston Pops baton twirler Keith Lockhart's new leather ? It's a gift from UMass Prez Jack Wilson, who was in attendance last night for the annual UMass Night at the Pops.Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253. 
