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Young singer's in 'Twilight' of his career
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The beautiful Bobby Long, a singer-songwriter from the UK, drew a crowd to Club Passim Wednesday night, most likely because of his connection to “Twilight’’ star Robert Pattinson. The husky-voiced, floppy-haired Long, who’s Pattinson’s real-life pal, wrote the song “Let Me Sign,’’ which Pattinson performs on the “Twilight’’ soundtrack. Long’s friendship with Pattinson and the “Twilight’’ cast has helped him sell out venues across the country - even though he has yet to record an album. Long told us backstage after the show that he doesn’t mind the attention from “Twilight’’ fans. If a teen vampire movie is what brings people to his music, so be it. “Having anyone at the shows is kind of cool,’’ Long joked, marveling at the women in the audience who waited after the gig for autographs and pictures. “It’s kind of stunning, right? It’s really cool.’’ Long said Passim is the best place he’s played on his tour so far. It made him mourn the loss of London’s small, hippie clubs, most of which are long gone, he said. “I love it here,’’ Long said of Passim. “It has a real ’60s atmosphere.’’ Perhaps Long will bring Pattinson around to the next time he visits. Cross your fingers.
Green giants
Tiger Woods took a moment during yesterday’s pro-am round of theLost and found
David Mickenberg, the guy who ran the Wellesley College Museum of Art when it accidentally misplaced (and most likely dumped) a $2.8 million painting by French cubist Fernand Leger, has found a new job. Yesterday, he was named the executive director of the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va. Mickenberg has long declined interviews with the Globe about the missing painting at Wellesley, but couldn’t dodge questions at a press conference in Roanoke yesterday. He told reporters and museum staffers that the loss of the painting, which he admits led to his resignation, was “an extremely upsetting incident.’’ We agree.That’s amore
Emily Kumler, best know as the writer responsible for the mushy Boston Magazine story about how John Henry and his now-wife Linda Pizzuti Henry fell in love, will celebrate her own love story today when she marries her fiance, Robert Kaplan, in Rome. Wedding guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Henry, girl-about-town Wendy Jacobs, marketing gal Jessica Naddaff (as in Ufood Grill co-owner George Naddaff’s daughter), and designer Alan Bilzerian’s daughter Harley.Swinger strikes out
Tucker Max, the 30-something author of the best-selling tell-all “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,’’ behaved like his usual womanizing self when he was in town on Wednesday to screen the film adaptation of his book at the Loews Harvard Square. After Max riled up a crowd of college kids by showing the movie based on his debauchery, the professional lothario had one of his sidekicks call the local promoters of the flick to inquire about a person he thought was a Globe reporter in the audience. Apparently, Max found her, um, desirable. As it turns out, the woman in question was a former student employee at the Globe, a third-year at Northeastern University, who happens to be 19. For the record, Mr. Max, she’s not interested.Perry got a gun - and then some
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and frontman Steven Tyler may not be touring together - at least, not at the moment - but they do have a history of shooting guns together. Perry (inset), who’s featured in the latest issue of Outdoor Life magazine looking a bit like the Hugh Hefner of New Hampshire, says in a Q&A that “Steve [Tyler] is an outdoor guy, too. He’s into flying and we go shooting together.’’ Perry also tells Outdoor Life, of his home in New Hampshire: “I just like to be out in the woods. When I met my wife [Billie], I got the chance to start over again and I put my family first. Got a place on Lake Sunapee and we’re always looking to get up there. I love being in the woods - it does amazing things for my state of mind and helps me get away from the insanity of rock and roll.’’ Perry also brags to the mag that he’s beefed up his collection of guns. “I just picked up a stagecoach gun, an old Indian rifle, and was lucky enough to have found a lever-action .410 and a Walther PPK.’’ Sounds serious.‘Late Night’ for Springfield band
Springfield metal band Shadows Fall played “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’’ last night. That means the local musicians met Fallon’s other guests, Jason Bateman and Ashlee Simpson. We can only assume that the Shadows guys are “Melrose Place’’ fans now.‘Road’ begins its long journey
The bleak film “The Road,’’ which is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel about a man and his son who wander a post-apocalyptic world, premiered at the Venice Film Festival yesterday. So far, the movie - which was produced by Gloucester couple Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz - is receiving mixed reviews, though Variety panned it. (“This ‘Road’ leads nowhere,’’ the Hollywood magazine opined.) But the Independent’s review was positive, saying “The Road’’ is “bleak in subject matter but nonetheless makes absorbing and affecting viewing.’’ How could any movie starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron not be absorbing?
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