Bobby Orr comes through again
It all started when Bobby Orr read a column by the Globe's Brian McGrory about Bill Langan, a junior on East Boston's Savio Prep hockey team. Langan's mother, Karen, died right before the team was to play Scituate for the Eastern Massachusetts championship. Langan quoted his mom as saying that he should play in the state title game at TD Banknorth Garden before her funeral because she asked him to ''keep everything routine." Langan told McGrory that his mom attended all of his games and ''she used to tell me she was there when Bobby Orr scored. It was like she was up in the rafters watching." (Although the team lost the state title game, Langan scored a goal.) Orr called Langan after the column appeared to ask if the young hockey player needed anything, according to Savio's coach, Joe Ciccarello. Langan called back and asked Orr if he could attend the season-ending dinner. Orr said he wouldn't promise because he was in the middle of a move to Florida. But Wednesday night, he showed up at Orient Heights Yacht Club. ''No fanfare, no warning, no phone call before," Ciccarello wrote in an e-mail. ''He just showed up and stayed for an hour!"
Will Cooper throw the book at him?
When Anderson Cooper devotes an hour of prime-time TV to Sebastian Junger's new book next week, it'll be interesting to see how the silver-haired CNN anchor handles claims that ''A Death in Belmont" is full of factual errors. Reviewing the book in the Wall Street Journal last week, Joshua Marquis, a district attorney in Oregon, wrote: ''The more I looked into the case, the more I realized that Mr. Junger had selectively chosen facts and quotes from sources that would tell the story he wanted to write. . . . It would take a book in itself to address all the gaps and tangled thinking in 'A Death in Belmont.' " The special airs Tuesday at 10.McEnroe among tennis stars in cookoff
We know he has a mean backhand, but can John McEnroe cook? Blue Ginger's chef/owner Ming Tsai and the Food Network's Cat Cora will lead teams of tennis stars including McEnroe, Jim Courier, Mats Wilander, Pat Cash, Aaron Krickstein, and Goran Ivanisevic in a cookoff to benefit Chefs for Humanity, which raises money and provides resources for humanitarian and emergency relief efforts, and the nonprofit Bosse Foundation, which helps train young tennis players. The event will be held April 29 at Bosse Sports in Sudbury and will be hosted by radio and TV guy Billy Costa, wearing his ''TV Diner" hat. And for a dash of fun, the judges picking the best creations are New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft, Bruins Hall-of-Famer Cam Neely, and former Pats linebacker Ted Johnson, now a commentator for CBS4.Legendary Hollywood couple Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman joined Red Sox owners John Henry and Tom Werner in Henry's suite for Wednesday night's game.
Live with Fahey
MTV's Damien Fahey, a Longmeadow native who used to DJ for Kiss 108, is scheduled to guest cohost today on ''Live With Regis & Kelly."Johnny Rzeznik and the rest of the Goo Goo Dolls played a concert at the Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus as part of FM station 98.5's Mix Lounge series. The Route 1 eatery's owner Andy Wong had the band sign a pair of drumsticks.
Seventh-grade teacher Warren Phillips won $16,000 on the ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire" episode that aired yesterday. Phillips, a Halifax resident who teaches at the Community Intermediate School in Plymouth, made it through a question about Opie in the comic strip ''Garfield" and named Frederick Douglass's newspaper in New York (The North Star). But asked -- for $25,000 -- to name the company run by Meg Whitman, listed as the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine, Warren was stumped and decided not to risk his winnings. (The answer is
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