In new film, Rees is quite a sight

If you've got it, flaunt it, right? Well, Roger Rees, artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, apparently has it. The actor best known for his role as Robin Colcord (Rebecca's love interest on ``Cheers") takes it all off in his latest film, ``Going Under," and the reviews -- of his body, at least -- are exemplary. Writing in The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis says the 62-year-old Welshman has ``a body Brad Pitt could be proud of." (Rees plays a therapist who falls for his dominatrix.) Brad Pitt? We were so impressed we rang Rees in Williamstown yesterday. ``Brad Pitt wishes he had this body," said the actor. ``We've had to put an embargo on calls from Brad because he keeps calling for bodybuilding tips. . . . I'm like God to him." (Turns out this isn't the first time Rees has disrobed on film -- in 1984, he stripped for Greta Scacchi in ``The Ebony Tower.") So how does he stay in such terrific shape? ``I ran a bit more than usual, and I ride my bike," he said. ``I asked my friend Bebe Neuwirth if I should do it, and she said, ` Sure, you're old and ugly enough.' "

In search of the perfect game

Josh Beckett, Paul Pierce, Al Jefferson , and maybe Tom Brady are a few of the bold-faced names expected at tomorrow's bowling tournament benefiting the Governor's Committee on Physical Fitness & Sports . As if they needed more swag, the celebs attending the 2 d annual Stars & Strikes event at Kings will get gift bags with freebies from Grill 23, Stowe Mountain Club, the Boston Design Center, and fashionista Ermenegildo Zegna, among others.

Speaking of Brady, the Pats QB was expected last night at EF Education's fashion show and open house in Cambridge. Other Pats players expected were Ben Watson, Matt Cassel , Ellis Hobbs, Lonie Paxton, Adam Peters, and Dan Koppen.

Fans enjoy Affleck family moment

Even when they do regular, everyday family kinds of things at 7:55 in the morning, Ben Affleck, wife Jennifer Garner, and their baby girl, Violet, attract attention. The family stopped by Darwin's on Mt. Auburn Street at the edge of Harvard Square to get their morning coffee and several bottles of water, gearing up for another day of shooting on Affleck's directorial debut, ``Gone, Baby, Gone." ``Ben [is] obviously gaga over the baby, [he] played with and talked to her while Jen got the stuff," someone who was there wrote us in an e-mail. But even the fans who noticed left them alone ``as it seemed to be a sort of family moment."

Filming continued in Dorchester yesterday on Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel. West Roxbury native Brian Scannell filmed his scenes yesterday at a bar in Uphams Corner. Scannell also has a role in the Showtime series ``Brotherhood," which was filmed in Providence and premieres on July 9.

Miss Massachusetts 2005 Kristin Gauvin and several contestants in the upcoming Miss Massachusetts 2006 pageant bowled yesterday with members of the Best Buddies program at Kings in the Back Bay. . . . Directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly will head an English language remake of writer-director Francis Veber's hit comedy ``The Valet" that's due out in 2007, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart joined nearly 1,000 others at the Museum of Fine Arts party Monday night to mark the opening of the ``Americans in Paris" exhibition. MFA director Malcolm Rogers gave French ambassador Jean-David Levitte a tour of the show, including ``Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1," or as most people know it, ``Whistler's Mother," a portrait by painter James Whistler of his bonnet - wearing ma. . . . Rocker Juliana Hatfield (inset) sent out e - vites yesterday announcing that she and longtime beau Joe Keefe, frontman for the Martha's Vineyard band Unbusted, will be tying the knot in the next ``couple of weeks." . . . And actress Carmel O'Reilly, artistic director of Boston's Sugan Theatre, is reprising her role of Anna in the play ``Women on the Verge of HRT" at the Andrews Lane Theatre in Dublin. O'Reilly played Anna in Marie Jones' s comedy during the Sugan's production of the play last fall.

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