Curt on the keyboard
It's no secret Curt Schilling posts on the Sox fan site, SonsofSamHorn.com. But did you know Gehrig38 -- Schilling's screen name -- also appears on the Yankees site NYYFans.com? At 10:17 p.m. Sunday, Schill posted a lengthy missive on the Yanks message board, mostly to defend himself against accusations he's a blowhard. (You'll recall that the righty ranks in the Top 10 of America's most hated athletes, according to GQ.) About his decision to publicly support President Bush, Schilling wrote: ``I did, [and] for the myriad of reasons I did, a lot didn't. Agree or not, hundreds of thousands of people gave their lives for you and I to have that disagreement. . . . Cannot even come close to agreeing with all of [Bush's] agenda . . . but stacked against each other, I would have rather `no-voted' than vote Kerry." Commenting on his reputation as a media monger, Curt-in-the-car says he calls into WEEI because he gets ``real, real irritated when radio `sports' people spout off `insight' and `in the know' that I know to be complete crap." (Schilling also gets paid money to appear on 'EEI, which he donates to charity.) Yankee fans didn't know what to make of the pitcher's post. ``Even if he is on the enemy team, that's still pretty cool," wrote JeterRodriguezSheff, while ShaneTravis said Schill's ``constant cry for attention is exhausting."
Nasaw's next book on Kennedy patriarch
David Nasaw, who wrote well-received biographies of bigshots William Randolph Hearst and Andrew Carnegie, is at it again. Nasaw's got a deal to write a bio of Joseph P. Kennedy, and he's been pledged full cooperation by the Kennedy clan. Ted Kennedy et al. will sit for interviews, and make available the old man's papers, including his correspondence with, among others, Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover, Pope Pius XII, Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Gloria Swanson, Harpo Marx, Hedda Hopper, Cecil B. DeMille, and Marlene Dietrich. . . . Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis will coauthor a book, ``No Excuses," with nfl.com writer Vic Carucci, according to Publishers Lunch, an industry electronic newsletter. The book will include stories of his days as a Patriots assistant under Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick.
Minot book getting star treatment
``Evening," the affecting bestseller by Boston-born author Susan Minot, is bound for the big screen, with a screenplay written by P- town author Michael Cunningham. (``The Hours" author is also executive producing.) Directed by Oscar nominee Lajos Koltai, the movie centers on an aging cancer patient who reflects on one weekend in her youth when she fell in love. Claire Danes, Vanessa Redgrave, and Toni Collette are set to star. . . . Author and actor Eric Bogosian is joining the cast of NBC's ``Law & Order: Criminal Intent" as a regular. The Woburn native will play a captain and replaces Jamey Sheridan, who left the show after five years.
Donnie Wahlberg's hoping his new CW drama, ``Runaway," will be a hit. On the show, the former New Kid plays an attorney on the lam, wrongly accused of murder. ``Growing up sort of in the street," said the Dorchester dude, ``it's not hard for me to imagine what it would be like to live this way." The series is the only new drama on the docket for the new CW, the network created by the combination of the WB and UPN.
Kapler’s wife takes the mound; Pink singles out singer
Lisa Kapler, wife of Red Sox outfielder Gabe Kapler, threw out the ceremonial first pitch to her husband before yesterday afternoon's game in which the Sox bested the Kansas City Royals. She was recognized for her work in preventing domestic abuse. Also at Fenway, former Senate president and UMass president Bill Bulger was spotted checking out the new State Street Pavilion. Bulger was overheard telling a Fenway staff member that he'd forgotten how nice it was to take in a day game at the old ballyard. . . . Singer Pink made it a point to tell her audience that people should take notice of her backup singer Suzie McNeil, a Canadian who's part of Pink's North American tour. Not a surprise, since McNeil first caught most people's attention as a finalist on last year's ``Rock Star: INXS." . . . And on Tuesday, actress and playwright Pamela Gien, who just published a book based on her play, ``The Syringa Tree," which played at the American Repertory Theatre last season, was in town for a reading of her book. Joining her at the reading and book signing at the Harvard Bookstore was ART senior actor Jeremy Geidt, film director Sam Weisman, and Red Sox vice chairman David Ginsberg.
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