Herald publisher in fishing accident
Boston Herald publisher Pat Purcell is recuperating after suffering a nasty fishing accident yesterday. Purcell was shark fishing off Martha's Vineyard when he mangled his hand adjusting an anchor line. Chilmark Police Chief Timothy S. Rich said the accident happened around 1:30 p.m., while Purcell and some friends were fishing near Nomans Land Island, about three miles offshore. Rich said the boat heaved on a swell and Purcell's finger got caught between the boat and the anchor line. ``It was apparently hanging by a little bit, but not completely detached," Rich said of Purcell's finger. Purcell's boat, which Rich described as a 35-foot pleasure vessel named Weekend Edition, returned to Menemsha, where an ambulance transported him to Martha's Vineyard Hospital. He was then flown to Boston Medical Center. Purcell's spokesman, George Regan, declined comment. ``I'm not getting into it," he said. Purcell owns a home on the Vineyard .
Another Wahlberg does his part
Who knows if his name will ever be in lights with his better-known brothers, but Bob Wahlberg isn't sitting around worrying about it. ``Look, I do auditions when I can, but I have a family to support," said Bob, whose little brothers Donnie and Mark are stars. Having said that, Bob does appear in ``The Departed," playing an FBI agent in the Martin Scorsese movie starring Mark, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jack Nicholson. ``It was very exciting," said Bob, who works for
Amanpour: Pearl slaying hurt us all
Christiane Amanpour, who narrates HBO's new documentary about Daniel Pearl, says the savage slaying of the Wall Street Journal scribe was an assault on all of us. ``It wasn't just the killing of a journalist, but of an idea," Amanpour told us yesterday. ``And that idea is the pursuit of truth." The movie, which premieres Oct. 10 at 8:30 p.m., was screened last night at Harvard, and CNN's chief international correspondent introduced it. Amanpour says the film, which features Pearl's family, including his wife, Mariane, contains a lot of new information about Pearl's abduction and death. (He was killed in Pakistan while reporting a story in 2002.) ``It's so incredibly tragic," said Amanpour. In addition to the documentary, director Michael Winterbottom is making a film based on Mariane Pearl's memoir, ``A Mighty Heart."
Short stop for `Shortbus' driver
Before introducing his buzzed-about movie ``Shortbus" last night, director John Cameron Mitchell stopped by Union Bar & Grill, arriving in -- you guessed it -- a short bus. After meeting with the owners of the South End eatery, chef Seth Woods and partners Matt Burns and Jeff Gates, Mitchell boarded his bus and headed back to the AMC Boston Common for the screening.
``Sides" writer-actor Franco Trombino and a few fellow castmates -- Frank Santorelli, Emily Boisseau, and John Fiore -- took yesterday off from shooting to do press at North End eatery Emedio's. . . . A gang of do-gooders showed up at a fund-raiser for Cambridge-based Food for Free at MIT the other night. ``Car Talk" kin Tom and Ray Magliozzi were there, and so were historian Howard Zinn, ``Here and Now" host Robin Young, and James Taylor's sibling Livingston. We missed the bow-tied Taylor's short set, but did see him pluck a parking ticket from his windshield as he was leaving. . . . With ``All Shook Up," ``High Fidelity," and ``The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" in town, there's a lot of late-night activity in the Theater District, especially at the Intermission Tavern on Tremont Street. Owned by Michael Connors, the tavern's been chock full of theater types.
We caught up with ``All Shook Up" actors Jenny Fellner, Susan Anton, and Joe Mandragona at the West Street Grille this week.
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