3 BOSTON BROS & BEER ...
Hollywood hot shots Matt Damon and Ben Affleck argue over who is closer to Tom Brady in a video to promote a raffle to “eat pizza, drink beer and admire Tom Brady” with all three in Boston.
“For just $10, you and a friend can hang out with me and Tom Brady,” Ben declares, adding in a lower voice, “and I guess also, Matt will be there.”
“Yeah, also me,” Matt responds, “because I’m also friends with Tom Brady.”
“Ya sure, you know ... lesser friends,” Ben fires back.
It goes on like that for a while. Which gave us time to ponder whether or not Brady, who eats only vegetables, seeds and raw meat, will actually eat the pizza and drink the beer with the winner. Seems like he has to, right?
Anyway, whoever scores the grand prize gets to “talk football, movies and life with some of New England’s finest exports,” according to the contest site. “At one of our favorite spots in Boston,” Matt says. (Which, last we knew was Fenway Park, at least in Matt and Ben’s case. But that would seem odd, right?)
Anyway, the winner will be flown to Boston and “put up in a 4-star hotel.” Unless, of course, the winner is from Boston and they don’t need to fly here. Which, odds are, is probably gonna be the case. Because, let’s face it, the rest of the country hates Tom and the Patriots. But if a non-fan who just bought tickets so he can heckle the GOAT QB/QT, wins, please, please, please ask Tom about those naked pics in Italy!
Anyway, 10 bucks will get you 100 chances. But if you’re a really really big spender, or a really really big Brady fan, $20G gets you 200,000 tickets. The raffle benefits Brady’s TB12Foundation, Matt’s water.org and Ben’s Eastern Congo Initiative. Go to omaze .com for the 411 ...
••• And speaking of Brady, Tommy’s BFF Matt Light just launched a raffle of his own to send four lucky fans to 12’s first home game of the season Oct. 16 at Gillette
Stadium against the Bengals. The game is, of course, sold out and prices on the secondary market are reaching Super Bowl level. You wanna sit behind the Pats bench and welcome Brady back? It’ll cost you $1,837 on Stub
Hub. Club seats are going as high as $2,000, but if you’d rather cheer from afar — like really afar, as in the corner nosebleed — it’s a mere $319.
Or you can buy a $10 ticket for Matt’s raffle and the winner gets to bring three friends to the game to sit in a suite with the former O-Line heavy and artist Brian Fox. But wait ... there’s more. You also get a parking pass! Whee! And a limited-edition canvas print by Fox autographed by Brady and Light. And dinner for four at Davio’s at Patriot Place. Go to bradynationraffle.com for tickets and info ...
••• Weather gal Nelly Carreno is leaving NECN this week after six years as midday meteorologist. In a chilly memo to staffers, station VP Keith Barbaria broke the news of her departure.
“Nelly Carreno is no longer an employee at (parent company)
NBCUniversal and does not have access to the facility,” the email said. “If Nelly visits, she will need to be registered as a guest and follow our guest policy.”
Her profile page has also been removed from the station website.
“Nelly Carreno no longer works at NECN,” said a station spokeswoman. “We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”
Friends say Nelly is telling them she took a job in Dallas. Do stay tuned ...
••• And finally, three local writers made the Hollywood Reporter’s list of Tinseltown’s Most Powerful Authors.
Maine man Stephen King came in at No. 2, with a whopping 300 million books sold, behind only “Harry Potter” scribe J.K. Rowling.
Dennis Lehane, whose books have become the flicks “Gone Baby Gone,” “Mystic River,” “Shutter Island,” “The Drop” and the upcoming “Live by Night,” rang in at No. 10. Lehane also has written a number of screenplays and is a consulting producer on
Netflix’s “Bloodline.” “The 37th Parallel” author Ben
Mezrich, whose books hit the big screen as “The Social Network” and “21,” scored the No. 17 spot, with more than 30 million books sold.
“The Boston-based Harvard grad has four projects in development, including ‘Woolly,’ his forthcoming book about the attempt to clone a woolly mammoth from long-frozen DNA, which is being pitched as a real-life Jurassic Park,” the Reporter wrote. Congrats, guys!