In the House

A sold-out crowd filled the Haley House in Roxbury last night for dinner and a movie with actor Michael Ealy, who stars as a psychiatric patient in the Roxbury Film Festival pick "Jellysmoke." The film's producers joined Hollywood acting coach Troy Michael Rowland in dining on organic veggies, steak, and banana chocolate chip ice cream, festival committee member Pam Bailey said.

LA top cop and Boston native Bill Bratton is backpedaling after saying Lindsay Lohan is getting less media attention now that she's "gone gay." Bratton Thursday told LA's KNBC that he won't support a city measure restraining paparazzi because current laws are sufficient for reining in reporters. "If you've noticed, since Britney [ Spears] started wearing clothes and behaving, Paris [Hilton] is out of town and not bothering anybody anymore, thank God, and evidently Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don't seem to have much of an issue," he said. After being criticized by a city councilor for his remarks, Bratton snapped back: "There's nobody more supportive of gay rights than I am. My sister is gay and in a married relationship. Let's get off that angle, for cryin' out loud." Lohan responded yesterday: "Police chiefs shouldn't get involved in everybody else's business or their personal lives. It's inappropriate."

Pats linebacker Adalius Thomas has a new "Humble Pie" training camp shirt for 2008, benefiting his urban education charity, Sportsmen Lifting Academics and Sponsoring Hope. Thomas launched the sports line last December with a shirt that read "Be Humble or Get Humbled." His fellow players got a new shirt extolling the virtues of "Commitment, Pride, Endurance" when they showed up at training camp in Foxborough.

Former Pats Hall of Famer Steve Nelson spent his afternoon hauling peanut butter, beans, and juice at the Greater Boston Food Bank yesterday. Whole Foods Market, which sent staffers to pitch in, donated 1,260 cases of food to the organization through the Tackling Hunger program. What's significant about that number? That's one case of food for every tackle the Patriots defense made last season, said Whole Foods spokeswoman Robin Rehfield. In other charitable doings, Sox senior V.P. Larry Cancro, former player Jim Rice, and PR king George Regan hit the links at the third annual Fore Melmark New England golf benefit for children with autism at the Andover Country Club last week. Aerosmith, John Mayer, and Kenny Chesney all signed guitars to benefit the school. Chesney even delivered his to Cancro in person, when he watched the Sox play the Yankees at Fenway on July 25. Apparently, he's a big Sox fan. You had us from hello, Kenny.

Local legend Lenny Clarke will receive the Man From Nantucket award tonight at the Nantucket Comedy Festival. "He set the standard for so many of us," said comic Kevin Flynn, explaining why the "comedian's comedian" is getting the fledgling fest's inaugural award at the All-Star Comedy Gala, which also features battling Boston and New York comics. "When I was coming up . . . he was one part comic, one part bouncer, and one part Marine drill sergeant," Flynn said. We predict Clarke will finish that classic little rhyme with something naughty.

Paul Geary joined Ernie Boch Jr. to cheer on his old bandmates, Extreme, at the Bank of America Pavilion Thursday night. After the show, Geary and Boch headed to the studio to check out the new CD Boch's working on, "Low Expectations." The buddies finished the night in the Millennium Bostonian hotel bar.

Sara Edwards of CN8 rolled around in a giant hamster ball Thursday at the Aquarium, but it was all for a good cause. Team Bolt - somehow connected to an upcoming animated Disney flick about a superhero dog, voiced by John Travolta - enlisted the "Backstage" host in its nationwide fund-raiser for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in which four fans roll across the country in a giant ball. Team Bolt rolled onto City Hall Plaza yesterday, honoring the Boston Police Department K-9 Unit in a special ceremony.

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