Tomoyo gets the scoop

By Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff  |  June 6, 2007

Sox pitching ace Daisuke Matsuzaka's wife, Tomoyo, joined a Red Sox contingent at the Jimmy Fund's Scooper Bowl yesterday where the player's wives doled out ice cream and judged an eating contest for kids. Those doing their part for charity while their husbands are in Oakland included Karen Varitek, Bertica Lowell, and Kristin Mirabelli. The Scooper Bowl continues today on City Hall Plaza with performances by "American Idol" finalists Ayla Brown and Nick Pedro.

A federal judge in Richmond, Va., yesterday ordered a man who has been attacking Massachusetts author Patricia Cornwell on the Internet to remove his statements and not republish them, pending a trial. Leslie R. Sachs, who claims to be living in Belgium, has filled various websites with vitriolic charges that Cornwell, writer of the best-selling Kay Scarpetta crime thrillers, is a "Jew-hater" who is trying to have him killed, that she has bribed judges, and that she is under federal investigation for felonies by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Responding to Cornwell's libel suit, filed last month, US District Judge Norman K. Moon found the statements to be false and defamatory, and issued an injunction. Reached by phone yesterday, Cornwell said, "I'm thrilled, ecstatic." Sachs did not respond to an e-mail request for comment.

For someone who's relentlessly pestered by paparazzi, Tom Brady is remarkably at peace, or at least claims to be. "It's all about money," the Pats quarterback said after practice at Gillette Stadium yesterday. "What it comes down to is that [magazines] are looking for the latest and greatest." Brady, who's become a tabloid star this offseason, insisted he's not bothered by all the attention -- up to a point. "The bad part is when your family comes into it," Brady said. "I'm very public, but my family is not." Asked about his impending fatherhood -- Brady's ex, Bridget Moynahan, is expecting a baby this summer -- the QB politely declined to answer, saying only that "life changes for everyone . . . You go through things. You learn, grow, and mature." The Super Bowl champ made no mention of new girlfriend Gisele Bundchen but did smile widely when asked about his life these days. "I'm extremely happy to be part of this team, to be throwing footballs to this group of guys," he said. "I don't have any complaints about my life or what I'm doing."

Speaking of Bundchen, the supermodel cat walked into a debate over birth control in her native Brazil yesterday, Reuters reported. In Rio for the city's fashion week festivities, Bundchen told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that women should have the right to choose to have an abortion and that the Catholic Church's opposition to condoms is misguided. "It's ridiculous to ban contraceptives -- you only have to think of the diseases that are transmitted without them," she was quoted as saying. "I think it should be compulsory to use a contraceptive." Debate over sexual behavior has only intensified in Brazil, the world largest Roman Catholic country, following last month's visit by Pope Benedict. As for her own family planning? Bundchen told the paper she's not pregnant. "Of course I want to have a family in the future," she said. " But not at this moment."

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator and star Larry David and his environmental activist wife, Laurie, have separated after 14 years of marriage, spokeswoman Heather Lylas confirmed to the Associated Press yesterday. The couple, who own a manse in Chilmark, are said to be getting along quite well, however. The split was "very amicable and . . . they're going to continue to raise their two [daughters] together as friends," Lylas said. A producer of the Oscar-winning Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," Laurie drew the ire of their Martha's Vineyard neighbors in 2005 for making changes to the property without town approval. The couple later agreed to move some items away from wetlands.

We expect Howard Stern and sidekick Robin Quivers to discuss body functions on their satellite radio show. But expect to hear even more now that Quivers is undergoing a 21-day detox diet on-air with help from Roni DeLuz and James Hester. DeLuz, who wrote "21 Pounds in 21 Days: The Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox," is staying in Quivers's apartment and keeping her strictly to juices, purees, and teas -- nothing that requires chewing. "Howard keeps asking us questions about exactly what's going to happen to Robin and what's going to come out of her," says Hester, who did the detox himself . "We're here for the whole thing," Hester promised. "She's going to do this."

Defying royal wishes, a British television channel said yesterday it will show photographs taken immediately after the car crash that killed Princess Diana nearly 10 years ago. Diana's sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, had protested that showing the images in a documentary scheduled to air today would be a "gross disrespect to their mother's memory" and "deeply distressing" to them. The documentary, "Diana: The Witness in the Tunnel," focuses on the role of the photographers at the crash that killed the princess, her friend Dodi Fayed , and their chauffeur in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997 . (AP)

Angelina Jolie says she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian work. "I have no animosity toward Hollywood or the demands of the red carpet," Jolie, 32, tells Esquire magazine in its July issue. "That's my job, and I'm happy to have it. But when I die, do I want to be remembered as an actress? No." Jolie, an activist for issues ranging from global poverty to wildlife conservation, says she has found meaning as a citizen of the world. Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, 43, have adopted children from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Ethiopia. "I try to make sure that each of my children has enough of my attention to feel equal. I try to make sure that my relationship with the man in my life is solid and complete and we're very connected and having a great life together and enjoying our children and being part of the world," she says. (AP)

The Italian cinema industry is up in arms after director Quentin Tarantino (above at Cannes) called the current state of the film industry there "depressing." Italian newspapers have been full of reaction to his comments, which came less than a month after it was revealed that he would co-present a series of spaghetti westerns at this year's Venice Film Festival. Tarantino is a fan of old Italian films, but according to his comments in the country's leading television magazine, his love does not extend to more contemporary cuts. La Repubblica, Italy's second-largest newspaper, said that if Italian film isn't what it used to be, neither was Tarantino. "Tarantino is no longer the Tarantino that made 'Pulp Fiction,' " the newspaper opined. (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

'When it came to writing about a rat, I said, "You can't write about a rat." ' Don Black, who wrote the title song for the 1972 movie "Ben" and will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame tomorrow.

David Mehegan of the Globe staff contributed. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.