Cruise along the Charles

Fenway feast for VIP fans

Revenge is best served cold, and by day’s end yesterday, Fenway Park was pretty chilly. Watching Jonathan Papelbon get pounded, we completely forgot about the cozy pregame feed, where French toast was served with piping hot coffee, maple syrup-infused sausage, smoked salmon, champagne, and beer. (The sausage, we’re told, was a special request of Sam Kennedy, the team’s new chief operating officer.) As they often do before playoff games, the BoSox brass hosted a private gathering for some of their VIP fans yesterday, and the anxious crowd included several familiar faces. Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz arrived early with his newspaper, as did Harvard Business School prof Stephen Greyser, who feared the worst but hoped for the best. “One game at a time,’’ he said. Developer Ron Druker was there, as were Uli Becker and Paul Foster from Reebok, defense attorneys Marty Murphy and Tom Hoopes, Fenway Recordings owner Mark Kates with his mother, Jacqui, and son Nick, stylin’ Sox fan Joseph Abboud, Police Commissioner Ed Davis, flacks George Regan, Joe Baerlein, and Helene Solomon, and assorted Sox suits, including CEO Larry Lucchino, vice chairman David Ginsberg, and VP Larry Cancro. Other boldfacers at the ballpark included Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca - in a first, the Senate hopeful placed ads on the K cards - Olympic gold medal swimmer Jenny Thompson, nightlife nabob Patrick Lyons, Dropkick Murphy Ken Casey, Sox alum Dwight Evans, Suffolk Construction’s John Fish, rocker Bill Janovitz, New Boston Fund’s Jerry Rappaport Jr., Intercontinental Real Estate’s Peter Palandjian, Mandarin Oriental developer Robin Brown, Entercom exec Julie Kahn and husband Dan Scully, former senate president Bob Travaglini, restaurateur Anthony Athanas Jr., WBZ Radio’s Dan Rea, and Les Otten, former Sox vice chairman and current Republican gubernatorial candidate in Maine. If she had any inkling about the outcome, local singer Susan Tedeschi might have performed her tune “It Hurts So Bad’’ instead of the national anthem. And while it was great to see Dave Henderson throw out the first pitch yesterday, even the savior of the ’86 ALCS couldn’t help the Sox yesterday.

Andre Tippett, Steve Grogan, Steve Nelson, Ronnie Lippett, Tony Collins, Larry Garron, and Scott Zolak were among the former Patriots who gathered yesterday at Gillette to watch the broadcast of the Pats/Broncos game with fans. The get-together, called “Game With the Greats,’’ is an annual fund-raiser for the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation.

We’re told Vice President Joe Biden was in town over the weekend to attend Vanessa Kerry’s wedding. Biden is buddies with the bride’s father, Senator John Kerry. (Kerry was seen at the Bristol Lounge at the Four Seasons after the ceremony.) Vanessa married fellow Mass. General resident Brian Nahed, who’s from LA. . . . “Gossip Girl’’ actress Blake Lively and a dark-haired girlfriend shared a few slices while sitting at the counter at the Upper Crust Pizzeria on Charles Street Saturday.