Film and TV come together

Looks like Boston's film and TV production community is coming together and playing nice. Massachusetts Sports & Entertainment Commission , which used to be in a pitched battle with former state film office honcho Robin Dawson's nonprofit Massachusetts Film Bureau, is cohosting a breakfast with Dawson tomorrow when the Academy Award nominations are announced. "It should be a very good morning for Massachusetts and film," said Rich Krezwick, managing director of the commission, said of the likelihood that the locally filmed "The Departed" will garner a few Oscar nods. He added: "There will be a lot to talk about." Among the topics that will come up at the InterContinental Hotel gathering is the new head of the state's film commission, which Krezwick said could be announced in the next couple of days. Among the names that have surfaced in the local TV and film community are theater producer and former state representative Nick Paleologos, Rhode Island's film and TV bureau director Steven Feinberg, and John Dukakis, an actor turned music promoter who is the son of former governorMichael Dukakis.

Fox cohosts promise different AM show

Mike Jerrick and his Fox TV morning show cohort Juliet Huddy swear their show, which debuts today, won't be like the other network morning shows that broadcast from the Big Apple. "We're not sitting in New York looking out at everyone else. We're not going to be talking trash about the rest of the country. We're really from the rest of the country," said Jerrick. To which Huddy added: "And besides Tom Brady is hot. Nothing bad about the Patriots." Their one-hour show, which airs at 9 a.m. on Channel 25 just after the local Fox show, will be a mix of the familiar morning show formats. But "we don't take it all too seriously, we want to entertain and inform," Huddy said. "And no one will be throwing punches or waiting for paternity tests," Jerrick said. "That's not in the plan."

A literary view from UpStairs

UpStairs on the Square has earned its library card of late. The Harvard Square eatery recently played host for a reception with New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik ("Through the Children's Gate") and Mireille Guiliano ("French Women Don't Get Fat") after their Harvard Book Store-sponsored reading. Guiliano, CEO of Clicquot, provided the bubbly, and chef Steven Brand and pastry chef Emily Wholey produced the treats inspired by Guiliano's latest book: "French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure." And then on Friday night, UpStairs owners Mary-Catherine Deibel and Deborah Hughes invited New Yorker and food writer Calvin Trillin and his friends Joan and Robert Parker back to the restaurant after Trillin's reading and discussion of his new book "About Alice."

With Daryl Hall and John Oates on stage and more polyester and big hair seen in these parts since the Metro nightclub was in its heyday, most attending Saturday night's Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay gala held true to its "Back to the Prom" theme. None more so than event cochair Jim Pallotta, the Tudor Investments wiz, who not only showed up in '80s garb, but in drag, wearing a prom dress. . . . Former 'N Syncer JC Chasez, in town for an appearance on John Garabedian's syndicated radio show "Open House Party," was looking for a spot near the Hotel Commonwealth to catch last night's Pats game.

After his concert Saturday, Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx made his way into the VIP party at Venu in the Theater District.

Danny Klein, a pastry chef for Z Square Restaurant in Cambridge, wore one of his other hats the other night. The bassist for the J. Geils Band kicked off the new Harvard Square eatery's music nights by performing with his current band Stonecrazy. . . . Matt Siegel and his zany morning crew continue to chug along in the ratings. Kiss 108's long-running "Matty in the Morning" show was No. 1 in the morning slot with the key demographic group of adults ages 25 to 45 . Siegel has ranked at the top with women ages 25 to 54 for five ratings periods -- more than a year -- and has been No. 1 with adults ages 25 to 54 for three of the last four ratings periods.

Christopher Muther of the Globe staff contributed. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.