Above, Kid Rock (center) and Peter Wolf take in last night's Red Sox game.
(Globe Staff Photo / Jim Davis)
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A bunch of kidders
Above, Kid Rock (center) and Peter Wolf take in last night's Red Sox game.
(Globe Staff Photo / Jim Davis)
The crew of the Adam Sandler movie “Grown Ups’’ was busy in Marblehead yesterday constructing a temporary set at an oceanfront home on Harbor Avenue. Workers said they were building a playroom for a scene that will be set in Beverly Hills. Filming on the property begins next week. The many actors involved with “Grown Ups,’’ most of whom are “Saturday Night Live’’ alumni, have been spotted all over Boston and the North Shore in the past few months. Most recently, costars Norm Macdonald and Colin Quinn were seen bowling at Kings (for the record, Macdonald beat Quinn with a score of 103 to 94). The two were also spotted Monday night having dinner at Abe & Louie’s with costar David Spade, Kid Rock, and J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf. Quite a posse, right? Rock, who’s in town for a show at the
Hot stuff in Southie
Stuff - the magazine formerly known as Stuff@Night - celebrated its Hot 100 Party at the Cellar in South Boston Monday. Revelers included former Patriot and “Dirty Water TV’’ host Christian Fauria, Boldfacers gal Lisa Pierpont, Shag owner Sandy Poirier, Tavolo’s Chris Douglass, chef Dante de Magistris, James Joseph Salon owner William George, Biltmore Bar & Grille owner Jason Owens, Alan Bilzerian’s daughter Harley, In-jean-ius and Twilight owner Alison Barnard, as well as Stuff editorial director Erica Corsano and creative director Mike Diskin, FNX morning guys Special Ed and Fletcher, and Phoenix editor Peter Kadzis.Back baby back
Michelle Monaghan says she’s looking forward to being back in the Bay State for the first time since shooting “Gone Baby Gone.’’ (She played Casey Affleck’s girlfriend in big brother Ben Affleck’s directorial debut.) Monaghan and director James Mattern will be at the Woods Hole Film Festival tonight for a screening of their film “Trucker,’’ in which Monaghan plays a long-haul trucker with a complicated family life. “I have an 8-month-old daughter, but I shot this prior to her birth,’’ says the actress, comparing her “Trucker’’ role to real life. “My life before a child was full of freedom, but it’s just as fantastic now.’’ Monaghan, who also worked with Matt Damon on “The Bourne Supremacy,’’ said Ben was a pleasure to deal with on “Gone Baby Gone.’’ “I was game to try the Boston accent, but Ben cleverly put in that my character had moved from New Hampshire,’’ she said. “He knew the danger to the film if the accent wasn’t done well.’’Accentuate the positive
If only Amy Adams had it as easy as Monaghan. Adams - who attended Monday’s Los Angeles premiere of “Julie & Julia’’ - tells us she has had to learn to fake a Boston accent for “The Fighter,’’ which she’s been filming in Lowell with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale. Adams admits that learning the Bay State dialect has been daunting. We’re not so easy to mimic, she says. “The thing I’ve learned in being in Boston is that no two people sound the same,’’ Adams told the Globe. “Even people who grew up in the same town don’t talk the same. Half the people sound like they’re from New York, but they’re not because I can hear a slight difference. Some people don’t really have any accent except the r’s. Some people do the really heavy thing; some people don’t do one at all. So I’m not trying to get them all. . . . I’ve let myself just focus on the character.’’ Adams added that she’s enjoyed working with Wahlberg, who’s shown her around town. “I’m having so much fun. . . . I didn’t expect [the area] to be so beautiful. I don’t know why I didn’t, but it’s gorgeous.’’ See that, Lowell? Amy Adams thinks you’re gorgeous.Sequel’s a good bet?
How much does Matt Damon like poker? Apparently enough to consider making a sequel to the 1998 gambling movie “Rounders.’’ PokerListings.com writer Sean Lind spoke to Damon, who told him that “Rounders 2’’ could be a go if someone comes up with a good script. “Everybody would probably come back,’’ Damon told Lind. “The actors all had a really good time working together. I know Edward [ Norton] would want to do it; we had a blast working together. [Director] John Dahl I’m sure would like to do it. Maybe someday it will happen.’’ As long as Cambridge resident John Malkovich comes back with that Russian accent, we’re in.Hamm is up
Boston is getting a gift courtesy of Ben Affleck, and that gift is Jon Hamm. The “Mad Men’’ star is coming to the Hub to film the Affleck thriller “The Town,’’ which is based on local writer Chuck Hogan’s novel “Prince of Thieves.’’ Hamm will star in the bank robbery movie opposite “Vicky Cristina Barcelona’’ actress Rebecca Hall and Affleck, who’s also directing. Bring on the Don Draper sightings - and thank you, Ben.Read the Names blog at www.boston.com/namesblog. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253. 
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