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Actor Curtiss Cook admits he didn’t get the best views of Boston while he was here to film “Shutter Island’’ last year. When he wasn’t on location at the old-and-somewhat-scary Medfield State Hospital campus, he was at a hotel in Dedham, where he ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  8 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Martin Scorsese,  World Bank,  Ben Bernanke,  Harvard University

Happy birthday, Bobby Brown

Roxbury-bred occasional reality-star Bobby Brown celebrated his 41st birthday at XO in Stoughton on Saturday night. Joining the New Edition singer for the festivities were pal Michael Green, Brown’s brother-in-law Rick Shands, Brown’s daughter ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  7 Feb 2010

Related Topics: RuPaul (actor),  Dita Von Teese,  Chris Collins (politician),  Lindsay Lohan,  American Repertory Theater

Ostriches to poetry, cars to pop

Ostrich Festival: Are there real ostriches here? Yes. Do they race one another with human jockeys on their backs? Yes. Does the festival serve ostrich burgers? Yes. Is it weird to eat ostrich while you are watching ostriches run around? Yes. But weird ...

From MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  7 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Langston Hughes

Timberlake brings a different kind of sexy back at Harvard

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals had their way with Justin Timberlake last night, as the cross-dressing comedy troupe honored the “SexyBack’’ singer with a proper skewering. Timberlake, who plays Facebook adviser and Napster co-founder Sean Parker ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  5 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Justin Timberlake,  Harvard University,  Jessica Biel,  Facebook Inc.,  Sean Parker

Stifler's mom goes back to school

Emerson alum Jennifer Coolidge paid a visit to her alma mater yesterday to talk to students. The actress, who famously played Stifler’s mom in “American Pie,’’ is at the Wilbur Theatre tomorrow night. (She was styled beforehand by Salon Mario Russo’s ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  4 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Justin Timberlake,  Jennifer Coolidge,  Kathryn Bigelow,  Julia Child,  Meryl Streep

Carell tees up a comedy

Boston’s not exactly known for its golf courses, but maybe that’s the joke. Variety reports that Steve Carell is set to produce a comedy called “Missing Links’’ based on Rick Reilly’s book about a group of golfing buddies at a rundown Boston golf ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  3 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Rick Reilly,  Steve Carell,  Clint Eastwood,  Matt Damon,  Mike Nichols

Honoring Grousbeck

A reception was held at the Liberty Hotel last night for, the Celts chief executive and new chairman of the board of the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary. Grousbeck, whose son is blind, had founded a genetic therapy research project targeting blindness, and ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  2 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Liberty Hotel,  Jim Belushi,  Jimi Hendrix,  Dusty Rhodes,  Matt Damon

Joaquim Brady? Not quite.

Like any other couple, Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady don’t agree on everything. Take the name of their baby, for instance. In an interview with Brazilian TV, Bundchen reveals that she liked the name “Joaquim,’’ but her husband thought it would “sound ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  1 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Aerosmith (musician),  Steven Tyler,  Gisele Bundchen,  Boston College,  Mick Jagger

For 'Twilight' fans, catch of the day

Note to minor league hockey teams: If you want to boost attendance, invite a werewolf. More than 150 “Twilight’’ fans showed up at yesterday’s Worcester Sharks game to meet Chaske Spencer, better known as werewolf Sam in the vampire franchise favored ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  31 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Aerosmith (musician),  Home Depot, Inc.,  Robert Pattinson,  Taylor Lautner,  Stephenie Meyer

Pauly ‘Shore’

What is it about “Jersey Shore’’ that people respond to? That awful hair? The awful tans? Those awful accents? All were on display Thursday as Pauly D, our favorite character not named Snooki on the MTV reality show, made a paid appearance at ...

From MARK SHANAHAN & MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, Boston Globe,  29 Jan 2010

Related Topics: MTV,  Ben Affleck,  Kevin Costner,  John Wells,  Tommy Lee Jones

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