Edie lives on
Even now, 35 five years after her death, Edie Sedgwick is everywhere: Sienna Miller's starring in a biopic; Delias.com and Urban Outfitters are selling her style in the form of tote bags and T-shirts; and two new books about Warhol's waif are about to hit stores. "It's a viral reaction to something in the zeitgeist," explains David Weisman, who directed Edie in the cult classic "Ciao! Manhattan" and has a pretty, new picture book called "Edie: Girl on Fire." Weisman, who'll be at the MFA tonight, says the rail-thin Radcliffe alum was the antithesis of Paris Hilton, a socialite famous for nothing. "Edie is someone who embodied everything the '60s represented," he says. "She was a life artist." While Weisman's work has the blessing of Edie's family, the other new book, "In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family" by Cambridge writer John Sedgwick, might not. Yes, he's Edie's cousin, but Sedgwick didn't know her at all. "The title does not instill me with confidence that such authorship will bring anything but upset to the living members of my family," Edie's devoted niece Leila Dwight told us. And about that Sienna Miller movie "Factory Girl"? Don't bother, says Weisman, who's seen it. "Terrible," he says. "This is the manifestation that quality movies don't exist anymore."
Sox: Reality show theory is off base
Why would the Red Sox be willing to pay $42 million -- or 5 billion yen -- for Daisuke Matsuzaka , an unproven Japanese pitcher who throws something called a "gyroball"? Here's one theory posited by a few Sox partisans on the Sons of Sam Horn website: TV executive-turned-team owner Tom Werner intends to create a reality show about the wily righty, which he'll sell to broadcasters in Japan for a small fortune. Always eager to create new revenue streams, the Sox brass would use the foreign-born ballplayer's first year in the bigs to create must-see TV in Japan. (After all, Werner's not exactly hitting home runs in his own country. His most recent show, "20 Good Years ," was yanked off the air by NBC after just a few episodes.) If something of the sort is afoot, it's news to Sox flack Charles Steinberg . "That's the first I've heard of that one," Steinberg said in an e-mail.
Operation Kids to honor Ann Romney
Ann Romney, wife of outgoing Governor Mitt Romney, will be honored tomorrow by Utah-based Operation Kids. The party at the new InterContinental Boston is being cochaired by Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and his wife, Shonda, and Bain Capital managing director Steve Pagliuca and his wife, Judy. The VIP guests include former Olympic speedskater Johann Koss and ex-Atlanta Brave outfielder Dale Murphy, a Mormon who considered running for governor of Utah in '04. Serenading the swarm will be pop and Christian singer Amy Grant.
B&B owners are taken by ‘Borat’
Joseph Behar has seen "Borat," and to quote the counterfeit Kazakhstani newsman, he liiikes! "It's an excellent movie, no question," says Behar, who's in the film with his wife, Miriam, for 4 1/2 minutes. The cute couple, who run the kosher bed & breakfast in Newton visited by Borat, know they were duped by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, but they don't mind. "It's making so much money because it makes people laugh," says Behar. Borat showed up at the couple's B&B a year and a half ago, claiming to be making a documentary about a stranger in a strange land. "I really didn't want to be in it, but you can't have guests and not talk to them," says the benevolent Behar, who was paid a few hundred dollars by producers. In the movie, Borat flees the auberge when he thinks the Behars, who are Jewish, have turned into cockroaches. "When he went running into the street at 1:30 a.m., I thought the police were coming," says Behar. So is Behar a celebrity now? "Nah, some kid in the neighborhood saw it and knocked on the door," he says. "He told me, 'I saw you in the movie.' " Is niiice!
At a ceremony MC'd by Christopher Lydon the other night, the Boston Historical Society honored author Doris Kearns Goodwin.
And Norwell native Jennifer Coolidge was a sight to see at the LA premiere of her new movie "For Your Consideration."
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