Friendly Fenway

A pretty day and a tied-up American League Championship Series drew the faithful to Fenway yesterday. As Harvard Business School professor Stephen Greyser quipped, "God intended for baseball to be played on a sunny day on natural grass." No offense, Tampa. Spotted near the Peking ravioli and shrimp-fried rice at the pregame soiree were BoSox brass Tom Werner, Larry Lucchino, Mike Dee, limited partner David Ginsberg, and former limited partner Les Otten, joined by Eliot Tatelman of Jordan's Furniture, Reebok's Paul Foster, Ropes & Gray attorney Jane Willis and husband Richard Davey, GM of Mass Bay Commuter Rail. Also yukking it up: Middlesex DA Gerry Leone, Rhode Island President Pro Tempore John Revens and former Mass. Senate prez Bob Travaligni, TD Banknorth Garden's Mary Clivio, club owner Joe Cimino, SBLI's Bob Sheridan, Celtics managing partner Steve Pagliuca, playwright Dick Flavin, producer Paul Boghosian, PR exec Geri Denterlein, Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau prez Pat Moscaritolo, developer John Rosenthal, Red Sox counsel Elaine Weddington Steward, former news anchor Natalie Jacobson, Rasky Baerlein's Peter Meade and wife Rosanne, PR king George Regan, nightclub mogul Patrick Lyons, former Boston Magazine president Dan Scully and his wife, Entercom exec Julie Kahn, Entercom CEO David Field, and former Red Sox counsel Lucinda Treat. Repping the music crowd were: Fenway Recordings owner Mark Kates, Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz and his brother Paul, and Letters to Cleo manager Michael Creamer. Designer Joseph Abboud said he had four people approach him and ask for pictures, thinking he was '70s Sox hero Bernie Carbo. And Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz hoped for a slightly shorter game. "My wife is threatening to leave me if there are any more extra-inning games," he said, "because I always want to watch to the very end." We also found Tom Menino, recovering from knee surgery, with his foot up in the Reebok box. Party on, mayor.

Rosie's Place has found a replacement for Sandra Bernhard, whose invitation to headline the shelter's annual benefit was rescinded for remarks she allegedly made about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Comedian Carol Leifer will instead host the "Funny Women . . . Serious Business" luncheon Thursday at the Hynes Convention Center. Leifer's best known for her work on "Saturday Night Live," "The Larry Sanders Show," and "Seinfeld." "We're thrilled that Carol will be performing," said Rosie's Place exec Sue Marsh. "We know that her talent and humor will help to make our event a big success." Rosie's, a shelter for poor and homeless women, disinvited Bernhard after she reportedly said Palin would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" during her one-woman show in Washington. Bernhard disputes making the comment.

If Barack Obama loses the election, don't blame the literary types. A few weeks back, there was a well-attended Writers for Obama rally in Northampton, which included Tracy Kidder, Elinor Lipman, Joe McGinniss, Anita Shreve, Philip Caputo, and Joseph Espada. Tonight, more left-leaning writers will hold an Obamathon at Precinct in Somerville. The guest list includes Robert Pinsky, Pagan Kennedy, Steve Almond, Anita Diamant, Joe Finder, Jennifer Haigh, Gail Mazur, Stephen McCauley, Claire Messud, and Sue Miller, among others.

Even while she's nursing Tom Brady back to health, Gisele Bundchen manages to find time to work. No. 12's glamorous girlfriend shot a music video in LA the other day for the band Blackcowboy. The vid, directed by "Entourage" actor Kevin Connolly, features the Brazilian beauty lounging on a bench and also posed in a boutique window. Interestingly, Blackcowboy became buddies with Bundchen while she was dating Leonardo DiCaprio.

Seann William Scott in person is exactly as we imagined - funny, earnest, and really, really nice. The kind of nice you can't fake, that comes from growing up in Minnesota as the youngest of seven kids, being called "church boy" because he was so wholesome, and ice fishing with his dad. We sat down with the trucker-hat-wearing Scott at the Liberty Hotel yesterday, where he was chatting up his latest goofball comedy, "Role Models," opening Nov. 7.

Wow, it's early. Are you normally up and going at this time?
Yeah, ever since I got my dog. He's a yellow lab, I named him Dude.

After "Dude, Where's My Car?"
Yes, but more after "The Big Lebowski." After "Dude, Where's My Car?" I called everybody dude, which I never did before. I figured that would be a good way to stop saying it.

Do you always pick up your characters' traits?
I never used to swear before "American Pie." I [had] the worst potty mouth [after]! They used to call me "church boy" in junior high. My mom always took me to church, some really weird ones . . . like the kind on TV where they put their hands on you. I was horrified. I wanted to go up there and just stand there, just to prove it wasn't true.

So how did your mom like, you know, the scene in "American Pie?"
I warned her about the swearing, and she was like "oh no . . ." I'm like, "Mom, I'm working at Home Depot, I can't be picky." She took all her church friends after church to the movie, they were all like "Oh my God, we're gonna have to pray for him."

So, in your new movie, you play a guy who's sentenced with his friend (Paul Rudd) to mentoring kids. Have you ever been a mentor in real life?
In the summer before senior year in high school, I was a big brother. He actually looked like Bobb'e J. Thompson . . . (his "Role Models" costar). We just played basketball and hung out, did homework and went to the library. I got so many dates from that - the girls were like "Awww, that's so cute."

So what else is happening for you?
I'm writing an ice fishing comedy. . . . It'll be set on Lake Winnibigoshish. There's a whole community of people who live out there. I used to go ice fishing with my dad. You sit and watch a hole and drink beer. That's the sport. The ice pops a lot when you're out there. One time a guy heard all this popping, and when he woke up, he was on an island of ice . . . and once a dog jumped into a hole, after a fish . . . and he was trapped under the ice, the guy could see him. The dog swam under the ice and popped up out of another hole.

You're using that!
Oh, definitely.

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