Stamp (and envelope) of approval

So what if he didn't win a Super Bowl ring, Randy Moss has his own commemorative envelope. That's right, the US Postal Service in West Virginia is honoring the Pats' dynamic deep threat with an envelope featuring a photo of the former Marshall University football star. The collectible, stamped with a Pats helmet and a Charleston postmark, will be unveiled during a ceremony tomorrow at the Cultural Center in Charleston. (Mayor Danny Jones has proclaimed it Randy Moss Day and, we're told, speakers will include Moss's elementary school teacher Tammy Yates and high school coach Tim Fout.) The wideout, who hails from Rand, W.Va., is expected to attend the ceremony. "Randy's very well liked around the state," Postal Service spokesman David Walton told us yesterday. "It's all anyone is talking about. A lot of parents are pulling their kids from school so they can go." Moss is the third West Virginia athlete to be so honored. The two others were NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West and Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton.

"The Night James Brown Saved Boston," a VH1-produced documentary about how city leaders allowed James Brown to perform at the Boston Garden the night after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, will have its premiere at the WGBH studios on March 31. The 1968 concert and its live broadcast on WGBH-TV are credited with keeping people from rioting in the streets. Because of their support, Brown was a longtime donor to Channel 2. (Word out of the Brighton station is that the Godfather of Soul's membership package had to be mailed to him in prison one year.) The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the documentary's producer David Leaf, Brown's manager Charles Bobbit, and TV pioneer Russ Morash, who directed Channel 2's concert broadcast.

Berklee College of Music gave Ricky Skaggs an honorary doctorate at the Grand Ole Opry the other night. Presenting the award to the country and bluegrass picker were a bunch of Berklee types, including senior VP Larry Simpson, professors Pat Pattison and Stephen Webber, and trustee Jeff Davis. There were more than 120 Berklee students in the audience at the Nashville music mecca.

Aside from his many movie and TV projects, director Anthony Minghella's unfinished business included a libretto for a new opera by Brookline composer Osvaldo Golijov (inset). The work, which was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, was slated to be staged during the 2011-2012 season. Minghella, whose film credits include "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley," and "Cold Mountain," died Tuesday in London at the age of 54. Golijov could not be reached for comment yesterday.

According to an e-mail blast sent out yesterday by Haverhill Mayor Jim Fiorentini, Hollywood's on its way to town. Hizzoner reports that Warner Bros. will be setting up shop for three days in May to shoot "This Side of the Truth." Written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Matt Robinson, the comedy stars Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, and Ed Norton. Producers are planning to film at Merrivista, a senior-housing complex on Water Street.

Actor Kevin Spacey and producer Dana Brunetti must really like Ben Mezrich's novels. Spacey and Brunetti backed "21," which is based on Mezrich's book, "Bringing Down the House." Now the duo say they'll adapt the Back Bay author's latest novel, "Rigged," for the big screen. "Rigged" is based on the life of John D'Agostino, a Harvard alum who gets involved in an oil trading scheme. Spacey and Brunetti's production house is already working on adaptations of two other Mezrich books, "Busting Vegas" and "Ugly Americans." "Ben has a knack for uncovering brilliant minds mastering different markets," Brunetti told Variety.

"The Sopranos" actor Michael Imperioli and his punk band, La Dolce Vita, will play Bill's Bar April 11. The guitarist-singer has been keeping busy since the hit HBO show ended its run last year. Imperioli recently finished filming for Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" with Mark Wahlberg and runs Studio Dante, a theater in Manhattan.

Even after five films, playing Harry Potter doesn't get old, according to Daniel Radcliffe. "There's always something fresh to do, new aspects of the character to explore," says the British actor who plays the bespectacled star of J.K. Rowlings's books. "We're constantly innovating so it stays fresh." Still, Radcliffe's keeping busy. In June he'll be on Broadway in "Equus," and next month Radcliffe, 18, rears his handsome head on WGBH, starring in "My Boy Jack," the true and tragic story of Rudyard Kipling's only son. (During World War I, Jack joined the Irish Guards, an infantry unit destined for the front, and disappeared during a battle.) "That there are 18-year-old boys going to war right now is terrifying and bizarre to me," said Radcliffe. ("My Boy Jack" airs April 20 at 9 p.m.) The actor took issue with President Bush's comment last week that the war in Afghanistan is, in some way, "romantic." "Being with a beautiful girl on a moonlit beach at midnight is romantic," he said. "War is not romantic." Reached on the set of the next Potter pic - "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" - Radcliffe told us he knows of the Boston band Harry and the Potters, but he's never heard them. "I'd like to. Are they good?" he asked. "My favorite Potter-related song is by the Liars. It's called 'If You're a Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses?' . . . I like that one."

Chef Rachel Klein, who ran the kitchen when OM Restaurant opened in Harvard Square, is the new executive chef of Aura in the Seaport Hotel. Klein's contemporary American menu will be unveiled when the eatery reopens in late May after a renovation.

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