Dice-K pitches CD to Sox fans

Forget Bronson Arroyo, we want to hear Daisuke Matsuzaka's CD. EMI Music Marketing announced yesterday that it's releasing "Music From the Mound," a compilation of Dice-K's favorite tunes. The album will include one original track, "Gyro Ball," which will feature former J.Geils harmonica player Magic Dick, former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, and NESN announcers Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy. (Dice-K does not sing or perform on the album.) "I enjoy a wide variety of music, especially rock, hip - hop and R&B," Matsuzaka said in a statement. "I am excited to share my favorite inspirational songs with everyone in Red Sox Nation and beyond." We can't say whose bright idea this is, but the CD's being produced in part by Dice-K's agent , Scott Boras , and will benefit the Red Sox Foundation. For more info, including a track listing, keep an eye on dicekcd.com .

Don't expect to hear Gerry Callahan on the radio any time soon. Off the air with a throat ailment since April 27, Callahan, choleric co host of WEEI's highly rated morning show, is not well enough to resume work, and there is no indication when he might be. "His voice is still relatively weak and hoarse," Jason Wolfe, the station's program director, said in an e - mail yesterday. Wolfe said Callahan is "making progress," but there is no timetable for his return.

Arlo Guthrie's up to his old tricks. Almost 42 years after his infamous arrest for littering in the Berkshires, the "Alice's Restaurant" singer has again been deemed a nuisance. Guthrie, 59, was summoned yesterday by the code enforcement board in Indian River County, on Florida's east coast, for using recreational vehicles illegally and creating a "public nuisance" by keeping an unsafe building. Guthrie and his wife, Jackie, still own a home in Western Massachusetts, not far from Stockbridge -- the setting of the singer's antiwar anthem, "Alice's Restaurant." The couple couldn't be reached yesterday for comment, and it's not known if the arrest will yield another song.

What's with the marketing campaign for the movie "Evening"? Susan Minot wrote the book, but the ads all say "from the author of 'The Hours,' " which was written by Provincetown's Michael Cunningham. Minot swears she's not upset that Cunningham, with whom she co-wrote the screenplay for "Evening," is getting all the credit. "I am thrilled with the movie," Minot told Publishers Weekly. Of course she is. The movie starring Claire Danes has spurred renewed interest in the book, which means money in Minot's pocket.

Normally, the first-pitch duties at Fenway are handled by someone semi-famous, folks like Carrie Underwood or "Judge Judy" Sheindlin. Saturday, the Sox will try something a little different: A capuchin monkey will take the mound. But don't expect Ayla the ballplaying primate to reach home plate. "We don't want to encourage her to throw things," said Sara Aitken of Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled. "So it'll be more of a first drop." Ayla, in case you're wondering, is a full-blooded Bosox fan, born 20 years ago at the Southwick Zoo in Mendon .

Another Ayla, "American Idol" also-ran Ayla Brown, has had better days. The leggy lass from Wrentham reports that her MySpace page has been hacked, resulting in the loss of 4,000 friends and 100,000 song plays. "I have never been one to cry over spilled milk, what's done is done," the daughter of State Senator Scott Brown and Channel 5 reporter Gail Huff said in an e - mail. "Apparently hackers out there have nothing better to do than to destroy people's property . . . . I refuse to let them get the better of me!" A finalist on "Idol" in '06, Brown has released a CD called "Forward."

SHADE Foundation of America founder Shonda Schilling and son Gehrig were at the Showcase Cinemas in Randolph yesterday to kick off a free movie series and hand out sunscreen to kids and parents.

Denzel Washington needs extras for his new movie "The Great Debaters," set to film in Boston next month. What's he looking for? Harvard types -- or those who look like Harvard types, apparently. Today through Thursday, C.P. Casting is trying out extras for the movie, about a debate team from small, all-black Wiley College who took on Harvard in a 1935 debate and won. Washington is directing the film and also plays the team's coach, Mel Tolson. "Debaters" also stars Forest Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, Kimberly Elise, and Jurnee Smollett.

After losing 26 pounds on Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox, Howard Stern's sidekick Robin Quivers spent the weekend on the island where Roni DeLuz and James Hester host detox retreats. Quivers, whose strict diet was talked about daily on Stern's satellite radio show, finally broke her juice fast at Kathy Lola Domitrovich's famed Lola restaurant.

Our own Big Papi appears on ESPN's "My Wish" series tonight , taking 12-year-old Stephan Zepeda-LeColst of Middleton on a tour of friendly Fenway. Stephen, who suffers from neurofibromatosis and is about to start chemotherapy, admires David Ortiz because he is "brave and strong."

Tiger Woods and his wife, model Elin Woods, embrace their baby daughter, Sam Alexis. The couple's first child was born June 18. "This is truly a special time in our lives and we look forward to introducing Sam to our family and friends over the next few weeks," the world's No. 1 golfer wrote on his website after the birth. "Elin and I are excited, and this is far more important than any game of golf."

Woods will not play in this week's PGA Buick Open so he can spend more time with his family. (WEB AND WIRE REPORTS)

When Darryl "DMC" McDaniels joined Steven Tyler and Aerosmith for "Walk This Way," the crowd at the Hyde Park Calling Festival in London Sunday erupted so loudly that you could barely hear Joe Perry's guitar riffs. The London media and international bloggers were still buzzing yesterday about the Boston rockers' first UK show in nine years. Tyler & Co.'s 14-song set included "Cryin'," "Dream On," and "Draw the Line," before ending with the wildly popular Run-D.M.C. collaboration.

Cameron Diaz apologized for carrying a bag with a political slogan that evoked painful memories in Peru. The actress visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru's Andes on Friday carrying an olive-green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong's most famous political slogan. The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world capitals, but in Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead. "I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended," Diaz said in a statement. "The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it." (AP)

Tom Sizemore was sentenced yesterday to 16 months in state prison by a Los Angeles judge who ruled the alleged discovery of methamphetamine in the actor's car had violated his probation in a previous drug case. Sizemore "has been in every program, and here he is again," Superior Court Judge Cynthia Rayvis said. He "abused the privilege of probation" and "needs to be in a lockdown setting," the judge said. Rayvis recommended Sizemore be sent to the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County because of its noteworthy drug treatment program. Sizemore, 45, whose screen credits include "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down," didn't speak during the hearing. He wore orange jail clothing. Sizemore's lawyer, Fay Arfa, argued that prison wouldn't help her client overcome his problem and said after the ruling that Sizemore's legal team "will pursue our remedies on appeal." (AP)

Christina Aguilera (inset) says she's reading scripts in search of the right role to launch an acting career. "I am looking forward to moving into another form of what I feel is another creative outlet for me, and that would be acting," the 26-year-old singer told reporters yesterday in Shanghai, where she was to hold her first mainland China concert. (AP)

Victoria Beckham accepted undisclosed damages yesterday in London from a celebrity magazine that claimed the crew of her US television show considered her "picky, demanding and rude." The former Spice Girl sued Star magazine over an April article that claimed staff working on the NBC show had also described her as "full of herself and not very nice." Beckham's lawyer, Gerrard Tyrrell, told Britain's High Court that filming hadn't started at the time the story was published. (AP)

'Well, here's the thing: I don't really need a job.' Rosie O'Donell, saying she's out of the running to replace Bob Barker as host of "The Price Is Right"

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