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Is Aerosmith auditioning a singer?
Is Aerosmith already auditioning replacements for their wayward frontman? Band members Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer said this week they would consider carrying on without Steven Tyler , and according to a tipster, they were serious. So serious, in fact, that Aerosmith may be flying in a singer from Venezuela for an audition. A source close to guitarist Joe Perry ...
Enjoying their stay at the Ames
The doors are officially open at Ames Boston, which is why hotel execs spent most of last night celebrating. The opening party for the Ames drew a long list of VIP guests including the project’s celebrated architect and designer David Rockwell , hotel partner Seth Greenberg , former “Top Chef’’ contestant Sam Talbot , who’ll be at the Ames restaurant, ...
All-star community service
Our Boston Bruins have been do-gooding all over the city these past few weeks. Bruins defensemen Johnny Boychuk (above), for instance, spent an afternoon earlier this week serving food to folks at the Roxbury Boys and Girls Club. Joining him was team forward Daniel Paille .
Brady’s an iron man
A day after we got our hands on GQ’s “Men of the Year’’ cover featuring Tom Brady , we got a glimpse of the issue’s other shot of everyone’s all-American. Perhaps to make the gridiron god seem merely mortal, the Pats QB is pictured ironing. Huh? Are we really expected to believe that Brady irons his own Zegna shirts? Doubt ...
Tom Brady appearing in GQ’s annual “Men of the Year’’ issue
So what if he was outdueled Sunday night? Tom Brady is still “Man of the Year.’’ As much for his pinup persona off the field as his play on it, the Pats QB is one of five fashionable fellows picked to appear on the cover of GQ’s annual “Men of the Year’’ issue . And Brady’s in good company. The ...
A celebration of high hopes
VIPs at Saturday Night’s Joslin Diabetes Center High Hopes Gala were treated to a performance by New Edition member Johnny Gill . Attendees at the Seaport Hotel soiree included Kevin Youkilis ; Shannon Allen ; New Kid Jordan Knight with his wife, Evelyn ; Kevin Garnett ’s wife, Brandi ; David Ortiz ’s wife, Tiffany ; and Paul Pierce ’s ...
Wedding bells for Clay Buchholz
BoSox pitcher Clay Buchholz and his fiancee, “Deal or No Deal’’ model Lindsay Clubine , will walk down the aisle today in California. The pair, who’ve been an item for over a year, are getting hitched at Trump National Golf Club in LA. A few nights before their big day, Buchholz and Clubine treated guests to a pre-celebration of sorts ...
Fans flock for glimpse of 'Twilight' star
A throng of young women with fangs on the brain gathered at the Natick Collection last night to glimpse Kellan Lutz , who plays Emmett Cullen in the much-adored “Twilight’’ series. Touring suburban malls to promote “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,’’ the actor chatted with fans at a VIP event at Nordstrom and then faced the masses at Hot Topic, ...
Gisele lands in Back Bay
While her husband was busy preparing for the Colts, Gisele Bundchen took a stroll in the Back Bay yesterday with Stuart Matsumoto , her helicopter pilot instructor. The supermodel, whose due date is believed to be next month, is seeking a pilot’s license. She has already passed the written exam.
Back to school for Laurence Maroney
Yesterday was Take-Your- Laurence-Maroney -to-School Day for 12-year-old Tyler Hutchinson . Hutchinson was the winner of the NFL’s “Take a Player to School’’ contest, which meant he got to bring Maroney to Duxbury Middle School, where the running back talked to kids about staying in shape. Hutchinson described his day with the Pat as “pretty cool.’’ Maroney was a bit ...
Face time wanted from Justin Timberlake
Last month, there were rumors that Justin Timberlake would be in Boston to film scenes for “The Social Network,’’ the David Fincher movie about the Harvard students who invented Facebook. But by mid-October, we heard that Timberlake, who plays Napster founder Sean Parker in the film, would not be coming to Boston and would be shooting all of his scenes ...
Mobbed by fans -- in a good way
After spending Friday afternoon at the Globe chatting with fans on Boston.com, Newton-bred actor John Krasinski stopped by Brookline Booksmith on Saturday to read excerpts from David Foster Wallace ’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,’’ on which Krasinski’s new movie (his directorial debut) is based. Krasinski’s audience was a giggling group of mostly female followers, some of whom arrived three ...
John Krasinski stops by Boston Globe office
It looks like John Krasinski is on “The Office’’ to stay. “I would never leave,’’ said the actor who plays Jim Halpert on the hit NBC show. The Newton native is in town to promote his latest film, “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,’’ and yesterday he stopped by the Globe to participate in an online Boston. com chat . Krasinski ...
There's something about Boston
Cameron Diaz , who’s been in Boston shooting “Knight & Day’’ with Tom Cruise , made it to New York on Wednesday for the premiere of her thriller “The Box,’’ which was filmed around Milton last year. During her Big Apple tour to promote the film, Diaz stopped by “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon ,’’ where she dished about what ...
Fired ‘Style Boston’ host cries foul
Was Tonya Chen Mezrich kicked off the local show “Style Boston’’ because she’s pregnant - or because she wasn’t up to the job? Mezrich claims she was let go from the independently produced show because she got pregnant. Mezrich, the wife of author Ben Mezrich , sent us a statement yesterday that read: “. . . the producer’s attitude toward ...
Leary and friends come home again
What started as an entertaining way to raise some cash for a worthwhile cause is now in its 15th year. That’s right, Comics Come Home, begun by Denis Leary , is the longest-running comedy benefit in America. It takes place Saturday at Agganis Arena and features Leary, Jimmy Fallon , Bill Burr , Lenny Clarke , Adam Ferrara , Kenny ...
Pats tackle cancer; rested Brady returns to town
Former Patriot Joe Andruzzi was surrounded by his Pats pals in Foxborough last night for the second annual New England Celebrities Tackle Cancer Gala, which benefited the Joe Andruzzi Foundation. The guest list for the event included Tom Brady , who was back in town after a weekend in South Beach with his wife, Gisele Bundchen , and teammates Stephen ...
Tom and Gisele savor Miami
Thanks to the Patriots bye week, our quarterback and his wife were able to spend their Halloween holiday in South Beach. Tom Brady and a very pregnant Gisele Bundchen were spotted having an early dinner at the popular Prime 112 on Ocean Drive. An employee at the restaurant told us that despite the mess of paparazzi outside, patrons allowed the ...
Wedding day nears for Buchholz, ‘Deal or No Deal’ model
Baseball season’s over, but the fun’s just beginning for Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz and his bride-to-be Lindsay Clubine . The couple, who’ve been dating for just over a year, are getting hitched two weeks from today. “There’s just a few little things left to be done,’’ Clubine told us yesterday. “Clay just helped me pick out the cake.’’ The pair ...
JoJo in LaLa Land
Foxborough-bred pop star Joanna Levesque - better known as JoJo - has started her freshman year at Northeastern University, but that doesn’t mean she’s spending her nights around Mission Hill. The “Too Little Too Late’’ singer, who’s recording a new album, was spotted out in Los Angeles the other night with “American Idol’’ winner Jordin Sparks . According to Sparks’s ...
Together again, for a good cause
Huey Lewis wasn’t on bended knee, but he might as well have been. Seated beside James Cotton at the Hotel Commonwealth yesterday, Lewis was in awe as he talked about meeting the bluesman for the first time. “I was a student at Cornell for about five minutes and James played a club called the North 40 in Ithaca,’’ said Lewis. ...
Bruins at Mass. General to help decorate for Halloween
Bruins David Krejci , Tuukka Rask , and Vladimir Sobotka were in the Halloween spirit yesterday, helping kids at the Mass. General Hospital for Children decorate pumpkins. Rask (above) gets some pointers from Jackson Citain.
Rolling on the river
Crews on “The Social Network’’ were out on the Charles River over the weekend filming more of the movie about the Harvard kids who created Facebook. The film, which is being directed by David Fincher of “Fight Club’’ fame, stars Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield as the Harvard students who developed the site, and Justin Timberlake as Napster creator Shawn ...
Fallon treasures - and taunts - Boston
The sweatshirt doesn’t lie - Jimmy Fallon was all about local spirit when he performed at Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena on Saturday night. The comedian told the crowd that he met his wife on the Boston set of “Fever Pitch,’’ which is why the Hub is one of his “favorite places on Earth.’’ Fallon’s routine included a little night music ...
A celebration of book and director
NEW YORK - Mitch Zuckoff exchanged many e-mails with Robert Altman ’s widow, Kathryn , before embarking on his biography of the legendary director. But this one was different.
Longbottom casts spell at 'Potter' exhibit
Muggles swarmed the Museum of Science last night to celebrate “Harry Potter: The Exhibition,’’ which opens to the public on Sunday. The highlight of the preview party? An appearance by Matthew Lewis , better known to “Potter’’ fans as Hogwarts’ own Neville Longbottom. This was the first time the 20-year-old Lewis had seen the exhibition, which he described as “incredible.’’ ...
Welker gets a winning reception
Judging from his performance the other night, Wes Welker might make a decent coach someday. The Pats receiver worked with the lucky winners of a Dunkin’ Donuts promotion during a game of flag football at Gillette Stadium. Andrew Fontaine , 6, got to toss the ball around with Welker.
On the sets of ‘The Social Network’ and ‘The Town’
If producers of “The Pink Panther 2’’ could make Boston look like Paris, how hard could it be to re-create Harvard? Not so hard, it turns out. Filming of “The Social Network’’ got underway this week, and Wheelock College and Boston University are standing in for the World’s Greatest University. In keeping with its longstanding policy forbidding movies from shooting ...
Celebrating pioneers in health
The New England Healthcare Institute presented its annual Innovators in Health Awards the other night, and recipients included Dr. Atul Gawande of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (and writer for The New Yorker); Eric Lander , a lead researcher on the Human Genome Project and a founder of the Broad Institute; Dr. Barry Zuckerman , chief of pediatrics at Boston Medical ...
Howie is hands-on, then hands-off
“Deal or No Deal’’ host Howie Mandel had them laughing at Friday’s gala for the National Braille Press. Called “Hands On! Books for Blind Children,’’ the event at the Renaissance Waterfront was co-chaired by InterContinental Real Estate’s Peter Palandjian and his wife, Minou , Greater Media’s Peter Smyth (above, with Mandel), Celts co-owner Steve Pagliuca , and ex-Sovereign CEO Joe ...
English’s former fiancee arraigned
Todd English ’s former fiancee was arrested and charged yesterday with assault and criminal possession of a weapon - a men’s watch - stemming from a September fight with the celebrity chef. Erica Wang turned herself in to New York City police at 8 a.m., five days after English filed an assault complaint against her.
Rivers runs through W Boston
Joan Rivers , or a reasonable facsimile of the caustic comedienne, greeted new employees of the W Boston yesterday as they walked a purple carpet - complete with fake paparazzi flashes popping - for their first day of training. “They made us feel like celebrities,’’ said room service attendant Jani Pandeli . The Theatre District hotel, the W’s 34th location, ...
On track with Katie and Suri
When she’s not strolling Newbury Street or eating ice cream with her daughter, actress Katie Holmes spends a lot of time working out. The other day, she and Suri made the rounds at the BU track near Agganis Arena. . . . Meanwhile, Holmes’s husband, Tom Cruise , has been busy filming. Twentieth Century Fox this week finally released some ...
Menounos the ring leader
As a kid growing up in Medford, Maria Menounos sometimes watched professional wrestling with her dad. It was like a soap opera, but instead of Luke and Laura, the wild-eyed characters were named “ Ravishing’’ Rick Rude , Randy “Macho Man’’ Savage , and Brutus “The Barber’’ Beefcake . “My mother got so mad at us for watching it,’’ she ...
Cameron's got a gun
Yes, that was Cameron Diaz filming on Congress Street yesterday, waving a gun and wearing the same yellow dress she’s worn during other outdoor scenes. Under the watchful eye of director James Mangold , the “Something About Mary’’ star ran diagonally across a vast parking lot and into the intersection of Congress and West Service Road. As if being chased, ...
Cruise along the Charles
Taking a break from filming, Tom Cruise spent some quality time in Cambridge Saturday with wife Katie Holmes , daughter Suri , and mother-in-law Kathy . The Hollywood husband and wife relaxed with Katie’s mom along the Charles River, occasionally playing peek-a-boo with the 3-year-old. Cruise, who’s in town shooting a movie with director James Mangold and costar Cameron Diaz ...
New book alleges Chappaquiddick coverup
Les Leland says it’s just a coincidence that his book about Chappaquiddick is coming out so soon after Senator Ted Kennedy ’s death. “I’ve been working on it for six years,’’ says Leland, who was the foreman of the grand jury that looked into the tragedy. “I’ve lived for 40 years with the innuendos about what really happened.’’ In the ...
He's making it on Broadway
Boston Conservatory grad Chad Kimball - who stars in the new Broadway musical “Memphis’’ - is still mourning the loss of the North Shore Music Theatre. Without the NSMT, which closed over the summer because of financial troubles, Kimball says he might not have his face plastered on a New York City billboard right now. It was at the NSMT ...
A 'Family Guy' affair
Bob Connors , owner of Connors Farm in Danvers, is a big fan of “Family Guy.’’ How big? He mowed his corn maze into the shape of “Family Guy’’ characters Stewie and Brian . Connors didn’t know that “Family Guy’’ creator Seth MacFarlane had family in the Bay State, but he does now, and he’s hoping MacFarlane will stop by. ...
Bay State’s No. 1 bachelor
The New England Revolution’s sweet-faced forward Taylor Twellman has been named Massachusetts’ hottest bachelor by Cosmopolitan. He’ll be featured in the November issue of the magazine and will attend a party in New York to celebrate when it comes out on Oct. 13. Twellman (above), who split last year from wife, Lindsay , reveals in his Cosmo Q&A that he ...
‘Serious’ fun with stars of latest Coen brothers movie
Actors Michael Stuhlbarg and Aaron Wolff , who star in the new Joel and Ethan Coen movie “A Serious Man,’’ were at Brandeis University on Sunday for a screening of the dark comedy, which is set in a Jewish suburb of Minneapolis in the late 1960s. Stuhlbarg told the audience that he hired a Yiddish tutor to prepare for the ...
That's the ticket, and the tape
Costumed diva Lady Gaga would have been proud of the MassArt students who designed the over-the-top couture featured in the “Wearable Art’’ fashion show at the Burlington Mall on Saturday. The Boston Fashion Week event featured “Real Housewives of New York City’’ star Alex McCord wearing a dress made from cassette tapes, Tonya Chen Mezrich of “Style Boston’’ sporting a ...
Cruise in control
Does Tom Cruise do his own stunts in the new movie he’s making here? Judging from this shot, he does. Cruise was standing up while filming this scene in a speeding convertible. (There was a dog in the front passenger seat.) Cruise and Cameron Diaz are in Boston filming a spy thriller formerly titled “Wichita.’’
Culinary artist at the MFA
Celebrity chef Eric Ripert was at the center of attention the other night at the MFA, where he delivered a lecture and then hosted a VIP reception. Ripert, co-owner of Le Bernardin in New York, makes occasional appearances on “Top Chef’’ and stars in “Avec Eric,’’ the new PBS series chronicling his culinary adventures.
Michael Moore on . . . everything
Fashion has never been filmmaker Michael Moore ’s forte, but when the director of “Bowling for Columbine’’ walked into the Globe yesterday wearing a pair of black gym shorts, we were puzzled. Moore immediately apologized, explaining to a roomful of discerning journos that he’d planned to change at the hotel, but his plane sat forever on the tarmac. No matter. ...
Star power for ‘Playground’
Documentarian Libby Spears had some A-list guests at a Boston screening of her film “Playground’’ last night. New Harvard graduate student Ashley Judd and renowned feminist attorney Catharine MacKinnon were at the Institute of Contemporary Art to see “Playground,’’ which is about the trafficking of children in the US. Spears has had a good deal of celebrity support for her ...
Meyers parties with Northeastern frat boys
Can you spot “Saturday Night Live’’ star Seth Meyers in this crowd of Northeastern University Kappa Sigmas? Yes, he’s the one in the middle - the guy who looks like he’s 35 years old (because he is). Meyers, a native of Bedford, N.H., headlined the frat’s 7th Annual Comedy Night at Blackman Auditorium on Sunday, just one night after he ...
Ghouls night out
The undead came out in numbers over the weekend to greet Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg , who were in town to promote their new comedy, “Zombieland’’ (which we hear features a great Bill Murray cameo). The local zombies escorted the two actors to a preview screening of the film at AMC Loews Boston Common. Eisenberg, best known for roles ...
Fireworks in the Fens
Actor Jon Hamm was packing serious heat this week on the set of “The Town,’’ in which the “Mad Men’’ star plays an FBI agent. (His character falls for a female bank employee played by Rebecca Hall .) For the past several days, homeboy Ben Affleck , who’s directing the movie based on Chuck Hogan ’s book, has been shooting ...
Spreading the truth about fitness
Celts captain Paul Pierce was among a slew of celebs at the Clinton Global Initiative this week. No. 34 was there to tout the “Truth on Health’’ campaign, an effort to help America’s young people get fit. A big piece of the program is Pierce’s FitClub34, a website sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim that provides kids with information needed to get ...
Creating a scene
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz caused quite a commotion outside Gaslight in the South End yesterday. But, not to worry, it was all an act. Gun-toting Tom plays a secret agent in James Mangold ’s spy thriller, and while it may look like he was roughing up his costar, the two eventually become romantically involved in the film.