Warm-hearted effort

The Celtics' Women's Group - the spouses, partners, and moms of C's players, coaches, and ownership - kicked off a holiday coat drive at Cradles to Crayons yesterday. (Fans are being encouraged to bring a coat to the team's Nov. 26 game at the Garden.) Kevin Garnett's wife, Brandi, and Paul Pierce's fiancee, Julie Landrum, were among the gals who helped sort stock at Cradles to Crayons's Quincy facility yesterday. Others lending a hand included Corinne Grousbeck, Judy Pagliuca, Esta Epstein, and Jo Jo White's wife, Debbie.

Square One Mall in Saugus is gearing up for what could be some serious teen-girl mayhem on Friday - a visit to Hot Topic from "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson. The movie, based on the popular book series by Stephenie Meyer about a teen girl's romance with a vampire, comes out Nov. 21 and fans are already going nuts over Pattinson, who plays the blood-sucking hottie Edward Cullen. A similar Hot Topic event in San Francisco was canceled Monday after 3,000 rowdy fans showed up hours early; one girl had her nose broken when she was trampled, according to the Associated Press. Square One Mall manager Susan Yee said in a statement yesterday that the mall is allowing fans to line up overnight, but will monitor the crowd with extra security and a canine patrol. Pattinson is signing autographs and doing a short Q&A at the store, but only for the first 500 fans who buy the special $30 "Twilight Mall Tour" T-shirt.

We're told Kim Kardashian needed a lot of help lugging all of her Louis Vuitton luggage in and out of the Nine Zero Hotel. The celebutante was in Boston only briefly, making a paid appearance at Gypsy Bar and, later, riding the mechanical bull at Liquor Store. Otherwise, Kardashian spent most of her time texting frantically.

Looking a little like she just stepped out of a Bryan Adams video, Gisele Bundchen is modeling some '80s-inspired styles in the new issue of Elle magazine. Elle's creative director Joe Zee told us yesterday that Tom Brady's girlfriend is the consummate pro. The shoot lasted three hours, after which Gi boarded a plane bound for Boston. "It was right after Tom was injured and Gisele was leaving with suitcases full of books and movies for him," said Zee. Zee has no idea if they'll marry, but he calls Brady and Bundchen an uncommonly cool couple. "They're low key," he said. "They don't run around in the limelight like Posh and Becks. They're normal." Elle's December issue is out Friday.

Here's hoping Juliana Hatfield feels better soon. The singer is suffering from an eating disorder, and blogs about her treatment on her website. Outwardly, at least, Hatfield had appeared happy and healthy of late. She's got a fine new CD, "How to Walk Away," a memoir called "When I Grow Up," and a new best friend in rocker Ryan Adams. But in a brutally honest post, she reveals she's been struggling for a while. "For the most part I have not ever been inclined to escape with drugs and alcohol. . . . My coping mechanism - or one of them; the one that kicked into high gear again most recently - has been restricting food." Hatfield goes on to describe her treatment. "They make us eat six times a day. We all sit in the kitchen together and there is a monitor at the head of the table making sure we eat everything on our plates and drink everything in our cups. This is called the refeeding process," she writes. Why blog about such a thing? "This is me being modern. Damn these computers," writes Hatfield, who was released Monday. "But screw it. . . . All I want is to be well and to have energy and to get back on track and to have my quiet little life back." That starts tonight when Hatfield and Sarah Borges play a WERS show at the Museum of Science.

Look for Karan Takhar of North Attleboro on the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament today. Takhar will face kids from Maryland and Ohio in the first round and will move on to the semifinals next weeks if he wins. The grand prize winner is guaranteed $75,000.

Former Sox GM Dan Duquette and former Mets player Art Shamsky joined filmmakers Brett Rapkin and Erik Kesten at a screening of their documentary, "Holy Land Hardball," at the Boston Jewish Film Festival last night. The film tells the story of Brookline entrepreneur Larry Baras's quest to start a pro baseball league in Israel last year with Duquette's help. "I thought it was ridiculous," said Duquette, of his first response to Baras's wild idea. "It was a big challenge, because they hadn't played baseball there in 5,000 years." Still, Duquette soon found himself running tryouts at his camp in the Berkshires - then in Florida, the Dominican Republic, and Israel. A real range of characters came out, including University of Cincinnati star Nate Fish (who gets a shout-out from former teammate Kevin Youkilis in the film). The Florida tryouts even attracted a Holocaust survivor in his 60s. He didn't make the cut, but "he was in good shape," Duquette said. The league dissolved in financial problems after just one season, but Duquette and others are currently looking for cash to revive it. The biggest issue is fields, which Israel doesn't have, Duquette said. "We really connected with a segment of the population, and really the biggest challenge is facilities."