Film writer Kaufman glory-bound
NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL TO HONOR KAUFMAN We can only wonder how he'll twist this story. But the Nantucket Film Festival has announced it will honor Oscar-nominated screenwriter Charlie Kaufman with the NBC Screenwriter Tribute. The ninth annual gathering, which runs June 16-20, is known as the screenwriter's film festival. Among the highlights will be a late-night storytelling panel hosted by Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cummings and Rosie Perez, who has just been tabbed to make her directorial debut with a documentary on New York City's Puerto Rican parade. More than 50 films are on the program.
IT'S THE REAL THING In an interview with NBC's Dateline, Boston's own Bobby Brown admits that he once spent whole weeks high "on coke, marijuana, and alcohol," according to People magazine. The R&B bad boy says he partied so hard in part to avoid arguing with his wife, Whitney Houston. The interview airs April 30.
PULLMAN TO OPEN INDIE FESTIVAL Actor Bill Pullman will open the Independent Film Society of Boston's second annual Film Festival Thursday night with a screening of his latest film, "Rick," at the Somerville Theatre. The festival, which showcases emerging filmmakers, musicians, and visual artists, runs Thursday through May 2.
MOTHER'S DAY Some big names in business are bringing their moms to Babson today to mark the 25th anniversary of the college's Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. Barons who'll be there include Art Blank, founder of
OVERDUE BOOK It's customary at the annual Literary Lights dinner for copies of books by the evening's honorees to be given to guests as party favors. But this year, somebody walked off with a volume that was not intended as a freebie -- Christopher Lydon's personal hardcover copy of Louis Menand's "The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America," annotated and inscribed by the author. Lydon's hoping the person who took the book did so by mistake and will return it.
RUNNING THROUGH Just as former Boston Marathon champ Uta Pippig was checking out of the new Premier Suite at the Eliot Hotel this week, "Baby" Jane Holzer was checking into the Back Bay hotel's luxury space. Holzer was the first of the Andy Warhol gals to turn her connection to the artist into media superstatus and was once dubbed by Tom Wolfe as the personification of the '60s "It" girl.
THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALL Appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated is, of course, the kiss of death, so what a relief to see Pedro Martinez on the front of Business Week. The story includes remarkably little that's either new or interesting, but does quote team owner John Henry as saying "this may be the best Red Sox team ever assembled." We'll take the 1946 club with Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, Dom DiMaggio, and pitchers Dave "Boo" Ferriss (25-6), Tex Hughson (20-11), and Mickey Harris (17-9).
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