Brady huddles in New York

It was only a matter of time before those pesky paparazzi caught up with Tom Brady. The Pats QB, who's out for the season with a wrecked knee, was photographed yesterday walking - more like limping - through New York's West Village with glamorous girlfriend Gisele Bundchen. In a video posted on TMZ.com, one of the shutterbugs can be heard asking Brady to critique his successor Matt Cassel. No. 12 doesn't take the bait.

Never mind the dead-on impressions she does of Ali Lohan, Cindy McCain, and Jillian Barberie, MADtv's Arden Myrin mostly reminds us of Amy Poehler - but funnier. "We tested for 'Saturday Night Live' at the same time, and she got it," says Myrin, who grew up in Rhode Island and graduated Middlesex School in Concord. "I'm such a huge fan of Amy's." Myrin was in town yesterday promoting the new season of MADtv, now in its 13th year. "The beauty of being the underdog is you can be a little scrappier, a little darker," she says cheerfully. As much as she digs her day job, Myrin would like to make more movies. In Steven Soderbergh's forthcoming thriller "The Informant," she plays the assistant to Matt Damon's character. What's next? "I want the roles Parker Posey used to get, the one Zooey Deschanel gets," she said. "Is that an indie darling?"

The Sox partied with the people Tuesday, as Jacoby Ellsbury, Jason Varitek, Dustin Pedroia, Josh Beckett, Coco Crisp, Mike Timlin, Manny Delcarmen, Jon Lester, and Alex Cora took over Game On! Fenway to celebrate their playoff berth. Awestruck fans, already well into their own postgame party, were ecstatic when the group rolled in, giving high-fives, signing autographs, and posing for pics. Meanwhile, GM Theo Epstein and Sox brass Ben Cherington and Jed Hoyer showered each other with beer in the Game On! skybox. And David Ortiz partied at the Bleacher Bar.

Eli Wallach doesn't leave New York if he can help it. But the legendary actor wouldn't miss this weekend's celebration of playwright Tennessee Williams in Provincetown. "He was a brilliant writer and he helped me enormously as an actor," says Wallach, who won a Tony in 1951 for his role in Williams's "The Rose Tattoo" and made his big-screen debut in "Baby Doll," also written by Williams. Even at 93, Wallach is still spry - and still works. At the invitation of Aaron Sorkin, he appeared on "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," and he had a small role in "Mystic River." "Clint [ Eastwood] called me up and said he was doing a movie in Boston, and did I want to be in it," recalls Wallach, who appeared with Eastwood in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." "I said, 'How many weeks?' and he said, 'One day.' I love Clint." At this weekend's Williams fest, Wallach and his wife, actress Anne Jackson, will reminisce about their friendship with the famous playwright, and Olympia Dukakis will also discuss Williams.

"Sex and the City" star Willie Garson, comedian Jonathan Pessin, Ironman triathlete Jay Hewitt and his wife, Miss USA 2005 Anna Hanks Hewitt, gathered at Eastern Standard last night before heading off to the Sox game. The group's in town for tomorrow night's annual Joslin Under the Stars gala, which raises money for the Joslin Diabetes Center.

The "Sex and the City" DVD release party at The Estate was missing a rather obvious goodie in the swag bag: the movie. Also MIA: stylist and reality TV diva Rachel Zoe, who was expected to check out RISD grad Nicole Romano's fashion show, but then bailed when she learned she wasn't getting paid to appear, organizers said. No worries: Romano, with her fancy frocks and pretty jewelry, brought it home. Joined by hair gurus Serge Safar and Omid Maxey, Romano was ecstatic to have her parents, Sal and Linda, who made the drive up from Lincoln, R.I., in the house. "I have to come home to stay normal," confessed the designer, who just wrapped fashion week and a private show attended by Gretchen Monahan and Keith Richards's daughter, Theodora. And Romano's pretty down to earth. She even brought "Sex" stylist Patricia Field's folks pizza and beer when she dropped off pieces for the movie shoot. (It must have worked, her rainbow-striped pencil skirt appeared in the opening scene.) Romano had lots of fans Tuesday, as well. Sox owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner were in the VIP pen, along with club owner Ed Kane.

His new action-thriller "Knowing" is shooting with local actors at MIT today, but Nicolas Cage won't be on campus. In the film, Cage plays a professor who battles to prevent a young girl's terrible predictions of global destruction from coming true.

FYI: The "Ace of Cakes" episode shot at the Boston premiere of Steve Carell's "Get Smart" airs tonight on the Food Network. Extreme baker Duff Goldman, whose Charm City Cakes is featured on "Ace of Cakes," created a Get Smart-inspired cake for the Boston premiere.

Local filmmaker Melanie Perkins couldn't believe it when she heard her name called at Monday night's News and Documentary Emmy Awards at Lincoln Center in New York. "I looked at my husband and thought, 'Did I imagine I heard that?' I didn't want to stand up." But minutes later, she was clutching a big shiny trophy for her investigative documentary, "Have You Seen Andy?" The Cinemax Reel Life film explores Perkins's decade-long search for answers in the kidnapping of her 10-year-old childhood friend, Andy Puglisi, from a Lawrence pool in 1976. She said she tried to keep it together as she thanked everyone from Andy's family to HBO, which backed the project. "The contrast between standing in the projects as a little girl, thinking I'm going to find Andy . . . to standing onstage at Lincoln Center, was unbelievable." HBO will release a DVD of the film on Oct. 14.

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