Affleck brothers set to team up

Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck are in final negotiations to star in the big-screen version of Dennis Lehane's ''Gone, Baby Gone," which will mark Ben Affleck's directorial debut, according to yesterday's The Hollywood Reporter. Oscar-winner Ben Affleck (Casey's big brother) has adapted the book into a screenplay, the publication said. A summer shoot in Boston is planned. Lehane's story revolves around two Boston private eyes (the roles Monaghan and Casey Affleck are up for) who investigate a missing child. ''In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie," Ben Affleck told The Hollywood Reporter. ''I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both."

Bulger insider talks to '60 Minutes'

''60 Minutes" reporter Ed Bradley used the downtown nightclub Felt to interview Kevin Weeks, a former deputy to Whitey Bulger. Weeks is writing a book, ''Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's South Boston Mob," with Marblehead author Phyllis Karas. The insider's look at the Bulger gang is being published by Regan Books and is expected to be released by May. Although he was once described as a surrogate son to Bulger, after Weeks's arrest in 1999 he began cooperating with investigators. Those efforts eventually led to a murder indictment against Bulger and Stephen ''The Rifleman" Flemmi. Bradley's interview with Weeks and Karas is slated to air next month.

Former Boston TV producer and newspaper columnist Gary Grossman was in town Thursday night signing copies of his latest political thriller, ''Executive Treason." The Emmy Award-winning Grossman now lives in Los Angeles, where he cofounded Weller/Grossman Productions.

Deal for Nantucket channel, Bravo

It started off very small: a couple of morning-show hosts on a bench in downtown Nantucket producing a local cable access show. Now, cable channel Plum TV has added national programming. In a deal announced this week, Plum TV, a cable channel serving upscale areas, has a marketing partnership with cable channel Bravo to air 11 episodes of ''Project Runway," starring supermodel Heidi Klum. Plum TV was created by Nantucket Nectars cofounder Tom Scott, Hollywood producer Cary Woods, former NBC exec Chris Glowacki, and Harvard alum David Kuhn. In addition to airing on Nantucket, the channel is now seen on Martha's Vineyard, in Aspen and Vail, Colo., and in the Hamptons in New York.

A princess graces Boston

She has a rather long and formal title -- Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Hanover -- but there's no mistaking Princess Caroline of Monaco. The princess will be in Boston on May 20 to accept the US Fund for UNICEF's 2006 Children Champion Award. At the reception and dinner at the Museum of Fine Arts, Princess Caroline will be honored for her work on behalf of children and families as a United Nations good-will ambassador. She also is president of the World Association of Children's Friends, which was founded in 1963 by her mother, the late Princess Grace. . . . ''The Sports Huddle" will be reborn as ''The New Sports Huddle" airing on Sunday nights beginning in April on WTKK-FM (96.9). The crew features veterans of the sports chat world and includes host Eddie Andelman; Bill Fairweather, a former ESPN executive producer; and Boston comedian Mike Donovan. In a statement, Andelman said his mission is to ''replace typical histrionics of yelling and screaming on sports talk radio with thoughtful sports conversation, fun anecdotes, and lively phone-in dialogue."

Jack Welch addressed 1,200 Boston business professionals at the WBZ Business Breakfast the other day. For the talk, Welch enlisted the help of Liz Bates of the contemporary furniture store Montage, which supplied him with something from the B&B Italia line.

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