Pats huddle for a Super replay; a local takes the 'Idol' stage
INSTANT REPLAY FOR PATS Wide receiver Troy Brown will be there, as will Richard Seymour, Willie McGinest, Damien Woody, Joe Andruzzi, and Matt Light. The who's who of the New England Patriots and Patriots Nation gather tonight at the Loews Boston Common to screen the new Warner Home Video DVD "Super Bowl XXXVIII Champions," starring our very own gridiron heroes. (When the DVD of the Pats season was released two years ago, it was the party of the winter season.) The rest of us won't have to wait long, as the DVD and all its Super Bowl coverage will be out tomorrow.MASSACHUSETTS IDOL Even if she falls to pieces on tomorrow night's "American Idol," Elizabeth Letendre swears she'd still be satisfied. Then again, now that the Sturbridge pixie's made it to the final 32 -- from among 70,000 contestants -- she'd be lying if she said she didn't want to follow in Ruben Studdard's considerable footprints. "Definitely, I'm excited," Letendre, 20, told us last week from LA. Remarkably, Letendre said she won't be nervous taking the stage tomorrow. How's that possible? "You'll just have to tune in and see the star quality."
CATCH HIM IF YOU CAN Legendary music man Quincy Jones didn't hide during his Boston visit. After his Harvard duties, Jones dined Friday with club king Patrick Lyons at Jasper White's Summer Shack in the Back Bay and later stopped by Scullers to catch a show by his old friend and ex-bandmate harmonica player Toots Thielemans.SPICE UP YOUR LIFE What we want, what really really want is to chat with Geri Halliwell when she speaks at Harvard this week. Halliwell, a.k.a. Ginger Spice, joins Miss America 2003 Erika Harold at the Harvard Eating Disorders Center's eighth annual public forum Wednesday.SNOWBIRDS AND BILLFOLDS Each year at this time, there's a ton of dough being raised for Boston charities in the Palm Beach area. That was the case Saturday at the 13th Discovery Ball at the famed Breakers Hotel, where more than $1.5 million was raised for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Among the Boston notables there: George Cloutier, president of the Waltham-based American Management Services and a Dana-Farber trustee; Dana-Farber president Dr. Edward Benz; super flack George Regan; radio and TV gal Darlene McCarthy; Michele Kessler of the Kessler Foundation; Sage Hotel honcho Bob Sage; Reebok CEO Paul Fireman and his wife, Phyllis; Carl and Ruth Shapiro (Kay Windsor knitwear); and ex-assisted-living tycoon Abe Gosman.FATHER'S DAY Ought to be interesting when Ralph Bunche Jr. speaks today at the Fletcher School at Tufts. Bunche, a Fletcher grad who lives in London these days, will talk about the remarkable life and legacy of his late father. The grandson of an ex-slave, Ralph Bunche was a UN diplomat when he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his role in halting, temporarily, the hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians. The elder Bunche, who received his undergraduate degree from UCLA, a master's from Harvard, and a PhD from Howard University, died in 1971, the same year his son graduated from Fletcher.
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