Stars all over the Garden for Game 2 of Celtics-Cavs

If you want a star sighting, look no further than the Garden. "This Side of the Truth" writer/director Ricky Gervais was going to bring along actor Jason Bateman to last night's Celtics playoff game at the TD Banknorth Garden, and "Ashecliffe" star Leonardo DiCaprio made a return trip as well. If pop princess JoJo Levesque didn't sound her usual self last night singing the national anthem before the game, it's because the Foxborough teen was fighting a "bad sinus infection," she told fans on her MySpace page. Also at the Garden to catch the C's were Patriots Kevin Faulk, Laurence Maroney, Brandon Meriweather, Kenny Smith, Adalius Thomas, Eugene Wilson, and Stephen Gostkowski, who was hosting some of his teammates in a suite high above the action.

Capping it off

In town to give the commencement address at Berklee, Steve Winwood dropped by Cafe 939 yesterday, where he instructed students on the finer points of making sweet music. Tonight, the former Traffic member will play a show at Agganis Arena highlighting many of his biggest hits, and tomorrow he'll don a cap and gown. Cafe 939, Berklee's new concert venue, has become quite a happening place. Ben Taylor - son of Carly Simon and James Taylor - gigged there this week with British songwriter David Saw.

In her new memoir, Barbara Walters writes about her long-ago romance with then-Senator Ed Brooke, whom she breathlessly describes as "the most attractive, sexiest, funniest, charming and impossible man." The affair, she writes, began in 1973 and lasted for a few years until she and the married Massachusetts statesman "wisely but very sadly" decided to end it. Brooke, who's 88, hasn't remarked on Walters's revelation, so we paid a visit to the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at BU, where many of his papers and personal effects are stored in a climate-controlled room. (The first African American US senator shares shelf space at the Gotlieb Center with 2,000 other notables, including D.H. Lawrence, Shirley MacLaine, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Robert Redford, and Robert Frost, to name just a few.) As you might imagine, Brooke's boxes contain a lot of interesting stuff, including 16 Doctor of Law degrees, a VHS tape of his 15th wedding anniversary, and a black-and-white photo of former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who, it turns out, is another of Barbara Walters's former boyfriends. But Walters herself? She must not have been all that because the senator's day planners for 1973, '74, and '75 mention her just once. "Lunch with Barbara Walters" is penciled in for 1 p.m. on Aug. 1, 1974. Ho hum.

All things must pass, including, apparently, the marriage of Liv Tyler (inset) and Royston Langdon. The pair, who'd been rumored to be on the rocks for a while, confirmed yesterday that they're separating. Liv, 30, is the daughter of Aerosmith screamer Steven Tyler and former Playboy Playmate Bebe Buell. Langdon, 36, is the former frontman of the British band Spacehog. The couple wed in 2003 at a villa in the Caribbean. Their son, Milo, was born in 2004. Liv's rep told People.com: "They remain good friends and devoted parents to their son Milo and are requesting that their family's privacy be respected at this time."

Donna Summer, the legendary voice of the disco era, suffered through "severe depression" and admits she tried to commit suicide early in her career. "I was in New York, I had my daughter and my marriage broke up and I was alone. I just couldn't deal with that feeling anymore," Summer tells Mary Hart in an "Entertainment Tonight" interview slated to air tonight. "I was on my way out the window and got caught in the curtain," says Summer, who lived in Brookline and Newton and attended high school in South Boston. "The maid opened the door at exactly that time. Thank God that lady came because I would be gone today."

"The Office" and "Reno 911" actor Oscar Nunez turned a few heads walking through the lobby of the InterContinental Boston Hotel yesterday. Nunez is in town to film scenes for "The Proposal."

World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall said she gets the energy to travel 300 days a year from young people like the fourth- and fifth-graders she spoke to yesterday at UMass-Boston. "I love to spend time with younger people, because they are so curious," the soft-spoken Goodall told us. Yesterday's schedule also included a luncheon at the school and a talk at the Colonial Theatre.

You'll have to wait to see "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," the musical by scary scribe Stephen King and songwriter John Mellencamp. The show, which was scheduled to run April 15-May 10, 2009, has been postponed by Atlanta's Alliance Theatre. The production has been delayed due to "unanticipated scheduling problems which could not be resolved in time for the production," according to artistic director Susan Booth. She said the creative team determined that the script would not be ready in time.

Walden Media's Micheal Flaherty took nearly his whole family to New York for the premiere of the company's latest pic, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian." The red carpet was loaded with celebs Wednesday, led by stars Liam Neeson and Ben Barnes. Included in the Boston contingent were Flaherty's parents, Arlington residents Maureen and Francis X. Flaherty Sr., and brothers Chip and Peter, whose young sons were terrified of Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, the film's White Witch. "They wouldn't go near her," Peter said, "so she signed something for each of them and made me promise I'd explain that she's a nice person."

Governor Deval Patrick was gripping and grinning at this week's gala celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary. Patrick was joined by over 500 people at the event at the JFK Library.

Josh Kraft, the third of Robert and Myra Kraft's four sons, will succeed Linda Whitlock as the president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. The nonprofit's board voted unanimously yesterday morning to approve Kraft, 41. He's an 18-year veteran of Boys & Girls Clubs, having started as the manager of an outreach program with at-risk youth at the South Boston Club.

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