Matched set

Rehabbing QB Tom Brady and his supermodel girlfriend Gisele Bundchen were spotted out in Brentwood, Calif., Wednesday, toting Brady's one-and-a-half-year-old son with Bridget Moynahan, John. Tom and Gi wore matching outfits, and both she and baby John appeared to be wearing Chuck Taylors.

Zellweger the toast of Harvard

Renée Zellweger got as warm a reception as anyone could hope for at an outdoor parade in bitterly cold Cambridge yesterday. A small but determined group of camera-waving fans lined the slush-filled sidewalks of Mass. Ave., waiting patiently for the (late, of course) actress, this year's Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year. (Next week, James Franco will be feted as Man of the Year.)

As is tradition, the star climbed onto the backseat of a convertible for the short procession, warmly bundled and fully ensconced by members of the Harvard drama troupe, who were in drag.

"Give us a kiss," Zellweger yelled, riding with troupe president David Andersson ( in a dress and clown hat) and his red-beehived vice president Tom Compton. "It might be awhile before I get a smooch from a young Harvard hottie again," the actress said later. The gents were only too happy to oblige. "We're just boys in dresses," confided Hasty member Derek Mueller, who ran beside the car in a vampire gown.

The silliness continued at the New College Theatre, where the Hasties thoroughly roasted Zellweger before presenting her with her shiny gold pudding pot. Andersson and Compton mocked her early roles in "Dazed and Confused" and "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and followed up with a quip about "Jerry Maguire" costar Tom Cruise struggling with multiple personalities. The boys also offered her a diaper, making fun of her being in the bathroom when she won a Golden Globe for "Nurse Betty."

Zellweger - chic in a black suit, multiple strands of neck bling, and red heels - then took the stage, where she was confronted with her overly plump "body double" (yep, another dude in drag) from "Bridget Jones's Diary." Later, she donned a fat suit for a Charleston dance-off against a fellow dressed as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Zellweger's costar in the Oscar-winning "Chicago."

Earlier in the day, Zellweger - who bunked in the presidential suite in the Charles Hotel - got the Harvard Yard tour and lunched at OM, where the troupe also planned to throw her a dinner last night.

"Harvard - I didn't know this place was so fun!," Zellweger exclaimed. "I knew I should have accepted that full academic scholarship."

Of the trophy, she quipped: "It's the nicest doorstop I've ever had. I've wanted one for a really long time, especially since Williams-Sonoma stopped making them a few years ago."

Looking forward, apparently, to the after-party, Zellweger added, "I love my pudding pot and I will love it even more tonight, when I fill it with vodka."

Are Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi coming our way? The talk show queen, known for her sharp suits and fancy sneakers, recently told Ladies Home Journal that she dreams of New England farm life. "I don't need to be on camera," DeGeneres said. "I'm not a workaholic. I love to spend time with my wife, my family, my animals. . . . We're looking for the right place to have a farm. Someplace like Massachusetts . . . with seasons. We could get an 1800s farmhouse with land and rescue animals. Then I'm done."

"Push" star - and Sudbury native - Chris Evans was expected to hit the Celtics game against the Lakers last night, along with Pats coach Bill Belichick and players Kevin Faulk, Lofa Tatupu of the Seahawks, and Gosder Cherilus of the Lions. Revolution kickers Taylor Twellman and Brad Knighton also had seats. Team co-owner Wyc Grousbeck's son Campbell planned to sing the national anthem with fellow students from the Perkins School for the Blind.

When we saw the name Nicholas Paleologos on the 162-page list of Bernie Madoff's clients, we immediately rang up the executive director of the Massachusetts Film Office to see what he had to say. Turns out, it's a different Nick Paleologos. The local film poobah pointed out that, unlike the guy on the list, his middle initial is not "C," he doesn't have a Palm Beach home, and he never invested with Madoff. "That's for rich people!" he said.

We hear Winston Flowers gets some nice play in the filmed-in-Boston flick, "The Pink Panther 2," which opens today. The florist provided most of the blooms for the film. For one scene, it brought in 12 arrangements of orchids, hydrangeas, and Sahara roses for Steve Martin to knock over again and again.

Who is 'Big Baby'?
Members of the Celtics invited kids from the Young Achievers School in Jamaica Plain to the team's practice facility in Waltham for a Black History celebration Wednesday. Eddie House, Glen "Big Baby" Davis , Bill Walker, and J.R. Giddens competed with students in a game-show format - the Celtics Slammin' Trivia Game - based on black history and quotes by famous African-American leaders. Davis's team, "The Baby Bunch," got the highest score.

Cook case in court
Attorney for Darryl McCauley, the man accused of embezzling millions of dollars from his famous half-brother Dane Cook, says police had no right to seize $830,000 in cash from him.

At a hearing this week in Middlesex Superior Court, attorney Robert Goldstein asked that his client's hefty $500,000 bail be reduced or eliminated, claiming the search warrants executed at McCauley's homes in Wilmington and Maine didn't authorize cops to take money. As a result, Goldstein argues, the seizure was "presumptively unlawful," and McCauley should at least be allowed to use the cash to post bail.

But Judge Kathe Tuttman wasn't buying it, and McCauley remains locked up at the Middlesex County Jail in Cambridge. Arrested in December, McCauley, who served as Cook's business manager, stands accused of embezzling more than $10 million from the comedian in a series of thefts. On one occasion, according to authorities, McCauley, 43, signed his half-sibling's name to a $3 million check and cashed it at a Bank of America branch in the Financial District.

In his motion to reduce bail, Goldstein calls Cook an "unstable personality," and portrays his client as a committed family man - McCauley has a wife and 16-year-old son - who's "universally regarded as an honest, hardworking" member of the community.

To support his claim that Cook is unpredictable, Goldstein includes excerpts from e-mails sent by the comic to McCauley. In one, Cook demands to know where McCauley is at all times. "I want/need your schedule darryl and if you don't start putting it in an email weekly im going to be really upset to say the least. WHY wont you do this for me??'' Cook writes. "Its not a lot to ask so I know when u r at ball games or in maine or where ever you go when you are working and can accept calls from me.''

Cook's attorney Joe Zwicker told us neither he nor his client have any comment.

Beth Healy of the Globe staff contributed. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or 617-929-8253.