Football is barely back, and some of the usual in-season topics have emerged now that the business end of the sport has been resolved. Topic one, at least to Aol: Tom Brady's hair. (see picture) Naturally. Okay, Aol did get around to discussing three priorities for Brady - notably a third wide receiver after Wes Welker and Deion Branch - after saying he needs a haircut.
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Republican candidate for state treasurer Karyn Polito's family, friends and supporters got 68 of the first 100 Registry of Motor Vehicles Boston Red Sox/Jimmy Fund vanity license plates. Many of the applications listed "per KPolito" and were submitted after members of the general public requested the plates. Polito got plate No. 2 while Ben Affleck paid $50,000 for No. 1 at a charity auction. Many low-number plates went to people connected to the Jimmy Fund and the Red Sox. [WBZ]
- Can you get a "green" phone? [WBZ]
- Some Natick High School students want the school to allow iPods in the library and during study hall periods depite a school ban on iPods. [WBZ]
- As the texting-while-driving ban takes effect on Thursday, a new study says it won't help. [Boston Globe]
-- Social media gets shut down in a Boston hospital. Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel, comments on his blog. [Running a Hospital]
- The T board is dead. Long live the T. [Boston Globe]
- President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. [New York Times]
- A Framingham man, Nathan Brooks, will pilot the Goodyear blimp tonight over the Red Sox-Angels playoff game in Anaheim. Only 146 people nationwide are certified to pilot a blimp. [Boston Globe]
Maybe it's because he heard about MA Men and wanted to experience the Masshattery first hand. Or, more likely, it's because he's in a damn movie shooting here. Either way, Jon "Don Draper" Hamm of Mad Men fame is in Boston right now, causing women to faint, men to glower, and products to be sold. Hamm plays an FBI agent who pursues Ben Affleck's bank-robbing character in the upcoming The Town, adapted from the novel Prince of Thieves (set in Charlestown and written by Chuck Hogan). Hamm and Affleck are reportedly shooting at Fenway through September 27 if you want to hit Lansdowne in hopes of glimpsing some stars, hearing some gunfire, or perhaps even witnessing some of the explosions that Loaded Gun Boston heard might happen.
Jennifer Lynn snapped Ben Affleck filming his new movie The Company Men on Boston Common yesterday. Did you see Ben about town, too?
Last Sunday, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner held a soiree in support of Barack Obama's run for president. Photographer Lolita Parker Jr. gave us a little peek of the action, and she has a slideshow of images at Boston Faces Boston Places.
Bennifer version 2.0 was in town this weekend stumping for Barack Obama. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner hosted a sold out party at Rumor’s night club on Sunday night. Affleck, who first met Senator Obama in 2004 when Boston hosted the Democratic National Convention, has become a fan of the Senator’s and feels he’s the right man for the job. While Ben seemed to have done most of the talking and schmoozing for the evening, Garner stayed in the background. She’s been in town filming Ghosts of Girlfriends Past with a fully clothed Matthew McConaughey.
Congrats goes out to Matt Damon, who announced that his wife Luciana is expecting the couple's third child . With this announcement, maybe Damon should talk Robert Ludlum into writing another installment in the Bourne series so he can feed all his offspring.
--The state owes snow plow operators $69 million for their work. Now that's a way to thank them for keeping our roads clean. The state has already--ahem--plowed through its snow-plow budget due to the abundance of snow this year. Sorry. Couldn't resist. [Boston Globe]
--The Executive Director of the Turnpike Authority wants to CharlieCard everything so that you can use your card at the tolls. While we're all for not having to save spare change, automation might make it easier to miss fare hikes. [Boston Herald]
After Sarah Silverman served up a little tune about how she's boffing homeboy Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel got an appropriate revenge:
Oh, you know the Oscar drill already: Marion Cotillard surprised everyone by winning Best Actress for La Vie en Rose, further proving the rule that if you go ugly for a movie role, you will win. Poor Julie Christie just looked too beautiful. Otherwise, Tilda Swinton delivered the best speech for winning Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton. The men's races were yawners. Of course, Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men, and Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for There Will Be Blood. No Country for Old Men was picture of the year. LAist provides live-blogs and recaps.
Despite costing us the Super Bowl, Boston is Mayor Tom Menino's city to lose. Given relative peace and prosperity, and the incredible challenge of defeating an incumbent, Menino will likely decide when and how his tenure as mayor comes to an end. Still, a rival politician can dream.
As Bostonist did with books, we've tackled best of/worst of lists for movies. Not only are we including the latest best of/worst of lists, but we dug through each list to find which movies impressed every single critic and which ones were absolutely appalling. Here are links for recent "Best Of" lists:
Enza Sambataro may not be a household name, but she inspires a passionate response from baseball fans. She's about to marry the beloved Red Sox player Kevin Youkilis.
Tim Thomas has been a rock in goal for the Bruins; even when they've been floundering offensively - and make no mistake, they have - Thomas has played well enough to keep them in the game. But last night against Toronto, another team struggling to put the biscuit in the basket, the B's found their rhythm and controlled the tempo, punishing old friend Andrew Raycroft for a 5-2 win. (Your humble correspondent was there, doing...
Ben Affleck is by no means the savior of the city for making a movie all about Boston. It's just a movie, after all. But some recent harsh criticism from Slate surprised us. Dorchester native Patrick Radden Keefe notes the abundance of aesthetically challenged individuals in the movie and declares, "The result is not so much what [Scorcese's] Mean Streets did for New York as what Deliverance did for Appalachia." Cue the umbrage. Did he...
All the local news outlets went nutty over Ben Affleck at the Boston premiere of Gone Baby Gone. They were especially tickled that Matt Damon showed up, too. Of course they both said they would sneak out so they wouldn't miss the Red Sox game. Affleck is on a real hearts-and-minds mission. On Tuesday, he went to City Hall and joined Mayor Menino to help the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) unionize hospital employees....
--Julie Balise of the Northeastern News spotted Alec Baldwin, shooting for Bachelor No. 2 (who isn’t?), saying nice things about toddlers and performing eternal damage control after he left a nastygram on his daughter's voicemail. Yes, Bostonist subscribes to the NU News feed for items other than its crime log, but we do love its crime log so. --Ben Affleck was in town to preview the movie he directed, Gone Baby Gone, which has been...
--The Cambridge City Council has decided to name intersections after Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The Track Girls write that the council plans "to dedicate the intersections of Pearl and Cottage streets to Affleck and the corner of Pearl and Auburn streets to Damon." Once this is accomplished, wait for the college students to start defacing Affleck's corner and shouting, "And that's what I think of Gigli!" And then wait for someone to launch a...
All in all, it's been a pretty good week for former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney. Aside from a minor seatbelt flap, Romney saw a considerable improvement in his chances at election. The Des Moines Register announced that Romney was backed by 30 percent of Iowa Republicans, which puts him ahead of McCain and Giuliani. What is making Romney so appealing to those who haven't had the dubious pleasure of being governed by...
Let's just tear off the Band-Aid and get to it: the Sox lost with Dice-K on the mound for the second time in a row, this time in a tough 2-1 loss in Toronto. We're sure that the WEEI phone banks will be full with callers today wondering what the heck's going on with our millionaire import, especially considering that Daisuke Matsuzaka forced in the game-winning run with a walk in the fourth (this is known in pitching circles as "the worst thing EVER").
Now that we're on this eight days a week kick for doing these picks it seems like it might be time for a new graphic. We'll give you a cookie if you design us a new one. Or maybe a Newcastle next time you catch us at the Middle East. Promise. Monday 8/7 The Roots with Talib Kweli It may not be a Brooklyn block party hosted by Dave Chappelle, but it will be...
We know Ben Affleck is back in town shooting a movie in Southie, but it's hard to think of him as one of our own anymore. He and Jennifer are trying their best to burn down Cambridge rather than make good in South Boston or even with his mom (we've heard she lives in Back Bay these days). We're much more interested in Townies: Live by the Gun and Die by the Gun. The message...