Every dog has his close-up

(david l. ryan/globe staff)

Lionsgate Films production elves descended on the Beehive jazz bistro just after midnight on Sunday and transformed the high-toned eatery into an "authentic Irish cantina" called "Pancho McDougal's." "It's supposed to be the worst kind of place to take a date," explained co-owner Tom Bardy, which is just the point. In "Bachelor No. 2," Dane Cook reverse-romances Kate Hudson at the request of her ex-boyfriend. For one day only, the Beehive served up corned beef enchiladas and dressed the staff in black T-shirts with a shamrock/Mexican tricolor logo, with "Pancho's" motto -- "Where Every Day is St. Patrick's Day of the Dead" -- emblazoned on the back. Bardy told us he had high hopes that Max, his frisky Boston terrier, would end up in the Howie Deutch-directed movie. "He's been discovered," Bardy said, hopefully. "Bachelor" took over the inside and outside of the Cyclorama, the Boston Center for the Arts, and the Beehive for production support and for interior and exterior shooting. Parking, always a problem in that part of town, was even harder to find as vans filled with costumes, make-up suites, and actors' quarters lined an entire block of Warren Street. "It's challenging for the neighborhood," according to BCA chief operating officer Lisa Giuffre. But by the time you read this, everything should be back to normal.

"We did it for Brad," said Boston bassist Fran Sheehan, chatting backstage during Sunday's tribute to Brad Delp. In honor of Boston's late, great lead singer, Sheehan and bandmate Barry Goudreau set aside their differences with Tom Scholz to close the show with one of the band's big hits, "Don't Look Back." However, not everyone was on stage for the fiery finale. Drummer Sib Hashian declined to take part in the emotional reunion, telling friends he wasn't "comfortable" sharing the stage with Scholz. Hashian, we're told, wasn't even in the house at the end, having retired to a hotel suite nearby. Among the well-wishers milling about backstage were Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer, who insisted on paying for his ticket, celebrated rock 'n' roll shutterbug Ron Pownall, Godsmack singer Sully Erna, guitarist Johnny A, Boston's original manager Paul Ahern, WZLX DJ Carter Alan, Nashville singer Tom Hambridge, and Delp's fiancee, Pamela Sullivan.

If you didn't make it to the Delp tribute concert, don't worry, there's a chance it'll show up on DVD. At considerable expense to himself, Ernie Boch Jr. recorded the entire affair. The auto magnate, whose band Ernie & the Automatics opened Sunday's show at the Bank of America Pavilion, arranged to have seven cameras and a 48-track mobile unit capture the concert's sights and sounds. "I did it because it was a historical moment," said Boch. The bands all signed off on the recording, though Scholz did request that he be given the tapes of Boston's performance. (He's promised to give Ernie a copy.) Boch, by the way, appears on the cover of the new issue of Automotive News. "In my industry, this magazine is like the Bible is for Christians, or Rolling Stone is for the rock set," said Boch, who spiked his hair for the photo shoot. "It's just me being me."

Yes, Tom Brady's eager for his baby to be born, but, as the Pats QB pointed out yesterday, there are a few things he can't control. Interviewed yesterday on WEEI, Brady said he's planning to travel to LA once his ex-girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan, gives birth. (No one seems sure when that might be.) "I'm certainly going to get there, and try to be there for the birth," said No. 12. "It will be a great experience." Talking to reporters later at Gillette Stadium, Gisele Bundchen's boyfriend called fatherhood "a very joyous, happy situation," but said he'll be all about football when he's on the field. "A lot of it is that you realize when you come here, you try to focus your attention and compartmentalize what you're doing," said Brady. "So you can give this team what it needs, because that's really what you sign up for when you come here." He added that his family's been very supportive. "I'm an uncle, and I know what it's like to be an uncle. My niece has been up here the last few weeks," he said. "My family is extremely close to me, with three older sisters and loving parents and supportive parents, I think everybody is anxious."

With two major movies in town, film crews are showing up all over the place. Director Diane English's star-studded "The Women" was in Grove Hall yesterday afternoon, where Eva Mendes filmed an office scene near Blue Hill Avenue and Warren Street. We're told the 33-year-old Latin lovely was working without her costars, who include Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra Messing, Annette Bening, and Kathy Griffin. Mendes first caught the attention of local fans in Aerosmith's video for "Hole in My Soul." She later dated Matt Damon, whom she met on the set of Bobby and Peter Farrelly's movie "Stuck on You."

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne, in town for yesterday's Ozzfest at the Tweeter Center, treated members of his crew to a night of racing at F1 Boston Sunday.

To bring a little regional flavor to the Little League World Series, Brigham's sent a truck load of Reverse the Curse ice cream to Williamsport, Pa., where manager Brian Oberacker's Walpole squad takes on a Georgia team tonight.

His name still sends shivers up the spines of Red Sox fans, but former Yankee Bucky Dent was just about the most popular guy signing autographs at the Ocean Spray Golf Classic at Ballymeade Golf & Country Club in Falmouth yesterday. The annual event, which raised more than $70,000 for Special Olympics, also included appearances by actors Cheech Marin and Kevin Dobson, former hockey star Jim Craig, and former Sox player Sam Horn, who is campaigning to be president of Red Sox Nation.

Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter was at the Museum of Science planetarium last night to give fans a preview of his new CD "The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter," which hits stores today.

Alex Beam of the Globe staff and Globe correspondent Steve Morse contributed. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.