Made in the shade

Curt Schilling's bum shoulder is bad news for the BoSox but may be good news for his marriage. "You have to understand, this is the first time in 18 years that we've seen each other in the summertime," Schilling's wife, Shonda, told us yesterday. "He used to be home a week then gone a week. Now, we're just kind of looking at each other at home." Yesterday, husband and wife were both at the Showcase Cinemas in Randolph, where they hosted the latest Sun Protection Flick - SPF, get it? - to benefit the Shade Foundation. The eight-week summer movie series, featuring free family flicks every Monday at 11 a.m., offers folks the chance to stay shaded. "We're not saying kids shouldn't swim and be outdoors," said Shonda, a melanoma survivor who started the foundation. "We just want to change the behaviors, and schedules, of kids and adults so they're not out in the sun all day."

Relocation rumors fall flat

Brangelina will not be fleeing France with their small army of children to take up residence in the tiny Berkshire burg of Richmond. A hot rumor that the paparazzi-plagued pair was headed for 311 Summit Road has been circulating for weeks, Selectman Marguerite Rawson tells us. (The buzz was still strong at Tanglewood last weekend.) But it was just a joke gone wild, she said. A $7 million manse was for sale and someone kidded that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were in the market. Soon, Rawson's phone was ringing like crazy. "It was all over Kimball Farms, the retirement home," she said, laughing. "I don't know how it moved so fast. It was kind of hilarious." It was even the hot topic outside a recent selectmen's meeting. Rawson says that the house - a colonial estate with a swimming pool and tennis courts - wouldn't be a good celeb hideaway because it's right on the road. (The home actually sold to Gordon and Adele Binder of California, according to Berkshire Middle District Registry of Deeds.) So for now, Governor Deval Patrick and his wife, Diane, will remain the town's most famous homeowners. In other debunking news, Bruce Willis's people say he's not planning a move to Plymouth. Yep, they, too, heard a rumor that Mr. Action was looking at a waterfront home off posh Warren Avenue in Manters Point.

Family values

Maria Menounos spent the Fourth of July in Butte, not Boston. The Medford native was in Montana because she scored a sitdown with Barack Obama and his family. (She did the interview at the World Museum of Mining.) "They were amazing, so genuine and authentic," Menounos told us yesterday. "While we were setting up our cameras, I peeked over the fence and noticed Michelle hula-hooping with the girls. This family seems so normal in abnormal circumstances." Menounos's interview with the Democratic presidential candidate's daughters Malia and Sasha airs tonight on "NBC Nightly News," and "Access Hollywood" is running snippets all week. (Menounos previously interviewed Megan McCain, the Romney boys, Kate Edwards, Sarah Huckabee, and Chelsea Clinton.) "I asked the girls what makes their parents mad, and they said, 'whining,' " said Menounos, who was accompanied by her business partner, fellow Meffa homey Keven Undergaro. "I was laughing hysterically through most of the interview. They're such a charming, beautiful family."

For years, organizers of Hot Stove Cool Music have been trying to get George Thorogood & the Destroyers to play at their show. They've finally succeeded. At a press conference today, Sox GM Theo Epstein and Peter Gammons are expected to announce they've landed Lonesome George as the headliner for Hot Stove Cool Music: The Summer Sessions, which takes place Aug. 17 at the Bank of America Pavilion. In past years, the concert benefiting the Foundation to Be Named Later was held at Fenway Park. This year's lineup also includes Buddy Guy, whom the young flack for the event mistakenly referred to as a "jazz legend." Guy, in fact, is a blues legend. Maybe he meant Buddy Miles? Buddy Rich?

Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett took to the Fenway field in the 86-degree heat yesterday to publicize his second annual Beckett Bowl, the Children's Hospital Boston charity bowling bash he inherited from Nomar Garciaparra. This year, he's enlisted Run DMC's Darryl McDaniels to entertain the troops. "He's a very popular singer for people my age," the 28-year-old Beckett confided. "And I think he did it for a bit of a discount." Sox pals David Ortiz, Jon Lester, Tim Wakefield, Mike Lowell, Javier Lopez and David Aardsma are expected to hit the lanes Thursday at Town Line Ten Pin in Malden, along with Bruins Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic, Shawn Thornton, Mark Stuart, Jeremy Reich, and Aaron Ward, and Revolution kicker Matt Reis. Beckett said he was shocked at last year's party when he bowled a strike his first attempt. "I looked over at Jason [Varitek] and said, 'Was this rigged?' I thought there was a guy back there with an arm." The evening's raffle-ticket winner will score two autographed Beckett jerseys and tickets to Fenway.

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