Alice in Chains - in private

Justin Timberlake fans, your prayers may soon be answered: The pop star and sometime actor is said to be up for a feature role in “The Social Network,’’ the movie about the Harvard students who started Facebook. That means Timberlake could be here - in the flesh - filming around Boston and Cambridge as soon as this fall. Hollywood blog Scriptshadow, which reviews new screenplays - it’s already given Aaron Sorkin’s script for “The Social Network’’ two thumbs up - says it was told Timberlake will play Sean Parker, one of the founders of Napster who also had a hand in turning Facebook into an online phenomenon. Scriptshadow says “Adventureland’’ actor Jesse Eisenberg and British actor Andrew Garfield will star as Facebook creators Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. The movie is based on “The Accidental Billionaires,’’ the book by local author Ben Mezrich. It’s being coproduced by Kevin Spacey, who also produced the adaptation of Mezrich’s book “Bringing Down the House,’’ and David Fincher of “Fight Club’’ fame is set to direct. It’s unclear how much of “The Social Network’’ will be filmed in Boston. We hope all of it will be shot here, but the Hollywood Reporter says the movie is on the list of projects eligible for new California Film Commission tax credits.

Eve Plumb - better known as Jan Brady from “The Brady Bunch’’ - spent her Labor Day in the Bay State. Plumb visited family on Plum Island, shopped in Boston, and then rounded out her stay with a trip to the Wynne/Falconer Gallery in Chatham, where the actress-turned-artist is exhibiting her paintings as part of a group show. Plumb, who lives in Laguna Beach, Calif., was excited to be back East, but she didn’t plan well for New England weather. “I have completely packed in an incorrect manner. I brought flip-flops and shorts,’’ Plumb told us yesterday. “Now I’m shopping for heavy sweaters. It’s cold and it might rain.’’ Of all of her paintings in the Cape Cod show, Plumb said she’s proudest of “Red Pitcher.’’ “It’s a fairly large work of, surprisingly, a red pitcher,’’ Plumb said ironically, adding with a laugh, “I’m so literal.’’

Gisele Bundchen in Penthouse? Well, no. But with the NFL season almost upon us, the men’s magazine ranks the 10 most attractive wives or girl- friends of players, and Tom Brady’s bride makes the list. Just barely, though. Believe it or not, the Brazilian supermodel is No. 9, only ahead of model Mercedes Lindsay, whose boyfriend is Redskins QB Jason Campbell. Geez. Last week, Brady was named the NFL’s eighth most attractive QB, and now this? If you’re wondering who ranks ahead of Gi, here they are: Vida Guerra (boyfriend is TE Jeremy Shockey); Carmella DeCesare (QB Jeff Garcia); Kim Kardashian (RB Reggie Bush); Brande Roderick (QB Cade McNown); Heather Kozar (QB Tim Couch); Jennifer Walcott (S Adam Archuletta); Kendra Wilkinson (WR Hank Baskett); and Jessica Simpson (ex is QB Tony Romo).

If he’s going to run for Ted Kennedy’s senate seat - and we’re betting he is - former Sox starter Curt Schilling will need to be comfortable talking to crowds. He got a little practice over the weekend, speaking to fans at the sixth annual 100 Innings of Baseball Spectacular at Adams Field in Quincy. More than 80 umpires and 100 players participated in the game, which lasted a whopping 31 hours and raised thousands for the fight against ALS.

With the new box set and the Rock Band video game, we’re all about the Beatles. So, it seems, is New Hampshire-based RRAuction.com, which is selling an autographed copy of the September 1966 issue of Datebook magazine, in which John Lennon famously likened the Beatles to Jesus Christ. “Christianity will go,’’ he said. “It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first - rock ’n’ roll or Christianity.’’

The North Shore Music Theatre is closed, but one of its productions - and its star - is headed to Broadway. “Memphis,’’ which premiered at NSMT in 2003, debuts in New York on Sept. 23. The musical, written by Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan, is about a white DJ and a black singer who join forces musically - and fall in love. It appears that Boston Conservatory grad Chad Kimball, who starred in the local run of the show, will also take it to the Big Apple.

Actor Tom Cruise will apparently be out and about while in town shooting a movie with Cameron Diaz. The A-list action man dined at Atlantic Fish on Saturday with his sister and three children. He had a clam roll and the filet and lobster tail. . . . Congressman Bill Delahunt and Legal Seafoods skipper Roger Berkowitz hosted a fund-raiser for Mayor Tom Menino Saturday at the Cape Cod crib of flack George Regan. Guests included Reebok’s Paul Foster, Cape & Islands DA Michael O’Keefe, jewelry duchess Donna DePrisco, and Entercom exec Julie Kahn.

Another film, another film festival. Yesterday, homeboy Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, walked the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, where the actor’s latest movie, the comic thriller “Informant!’’ is being screened. Directed by Damon’s occasional collaborator Steven Soderbergh, the film’s about a flabby, somewhat eccentric whistle-blower. “It was very, very easy to gain the weight,’’ Damon said yesterday. “It was very, very fun, probably the funnest time I had working, because I didn’t have to go to the gym after work and I just ate everything I could see.’’