Affleck isn't in love with fame
Sounds like Ben Affleck wants to be left alone. Hyping his new movie, ``Hollywoodland," at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, the Cambridge-bred actor said he'd like his private life to remain private. ``Nowadays, people pay attention more and more to . . . even the most mundane aspects of [actors'] everyday lives," said Affleck, whose relationship with Jennifer Lopez made him a popular target of the paparazzi. ``The movies sometimes become incidental pit stops or commercial breaks in the soap opera of their life." Calling fame ``the dance you have to dance," the actor said it drives some folks to contemplate suicide. `` It's not the greatest career move," cracked Affleck, who's now married to actress Jennifer Garner. ``Personally, I would rather not be famous than dead." In his new movie, Affleck plays TV's Superman George Reeves, whose mysterious death was treated as a suicide.
Moynahan has the Common touch
Bridget Moynahan is Boston Common's latest cover girl, and Tom Brady's belle looks as lovely as ever on the front of the mag's fall issue. In an interview inside, Moynahan says she isn't opposed to a woman asking her man for his hand in marriage. ``It does happen -- Pink did it, right?" she says. ``I think it's pretty bold, and it's kind of sexy. I like it. I like the idea." The actress, who's starring in the new series ``Six Degrees," says she's ``a jeans and T-shirt girl" normally. ``When I go out to events, I like to dress up," she says. ``But on a daily basis, I can't really make that effort." Clio and No. 9 Park are among her favorite local restaurants, and she also digs Sonsie ``because the atmosphere is always so much fun." Where does Bridge, who grew up in Longmeadow, see herself in five years? ``Definitely marriage and kids." Boston Common will celebrate its first anniversary next Friday at the new InterContinental Boston, and Moynahan will make the scene.Joe White’s faux pot of gold
When Hollywood producers need pot, they turn to Joe White. The Western Mass. man doesn't grow grass, but his Greenfield-based company does. Sort of. New Image Plants, which produces make-believe marijuana, scored a major deal with ``Weeds," the Showtime series starring Mary-Louise Parker as a dope-dealing soccer mom, and just inked another big-time TV deal. ``It's a mega series," boasts White, who's prevented from naming the show. ``They need a lot of plants." White's pretend plants, which have realistic-looking buds, began showing up on ``Weeds" when Parker's character started growing her own. How'd he hit on the idea? ``The marijuana plant has been demonized unfairly," White says. ``With 150 million users around the world, including 20 million in the US, I figured there'd be some demand." . . . The Four Seasons Hotel has named Brooke Vosika its new executive chef here. Vosika, who replaces David Blessing, comes to Boston from the Four Seasons in Manhattan. With William Kovel, late of Sir Terence Conran 's Orrery in London, taking over at Aujourd'hui , the Four Seasons has a whole new slate of chefs.Trump tees off at Pro-Am
Donald Trump was among many big shots who played in yesterday's Pro-Am at theNames can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253. 
