Hollywood Invasion

Celebrity

Known Habits

Safe Bets

Wild Card

Steve Martin; In town for: The Pink Panther 2, which wraps early this month.

The funnyman has an appetite for Italian food and is a well-known art aficionado.

The North End’s Mare, which Martin has already hit at least once (and where Meg Ryan dined when she was here shooting The Women).

The MFA. This spring Martin loaned one of his Edward Hopper originals (a coastal scene) to the museum’s exhibition on the painter.

Seann William Scott; The thriller The Box, set to start filming this month.

Partying. Hard. The actor forever to be known as Stifler likes to get wild with friends at rowdy nightspots

The Place. Scott’s American Pie costar Jason Biggs was seen swilling—and serving—drinks there while filming Bachelor No. 2.

Liquor Store—because it has a mechanical bull, and Scott seems like a mechanical-bull kind of guy.

Morgan Freeman; The comedy The Lonely Maiden, which arrives midway into this month.

This septuagenarian screen legend is a serious music lover who owns his own club, Ground Zero, in Mississippi.

The Beehive, whose nightly shows drew Mick Jagger when he was in town to check in on The Women, which is being coproduced by his company, Jagged Films.

It’s a bit far afield, but Johnny D’s in Somerville has the city’s best blues, and Freeman’s a hard-core blues fan.

Cameron Diaz; The Box

Hollywood’s queen of green once swore off coffee, but she’s now swilling java again—helpful for making early calls the morning after crazy nights out.

Sonsie, and why not: Every visiting star who craves a buzzing atmosphere seems to stop in at least once.

The South End’s Garden of Eden, one of only six Boston eateries certified by the Green Restaurant Association.

Brad Pitt; Said to be on board for the boxing drama The Fighter, likely to begin filming next spring.

Brad and Angie like to get their kids some culture when they’re on the road for a shoot. They rarely eat out as a family—but Mom and Dad’ll sneak in one date night during their stay.

The Boston Children’s Museum, whose reopening gala last month was cochaired by Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, whose lil’ bro Casey did the Ocean’s flicks with Pitt.

Brangelina favors Asian restaurants for an evening away from the brood—Megu in NYC, Japonais in Chicago. The Boston equivalent: the Leather District’s O Ya.

William H. Macy; The Lonely Maiden

Working out—he does triathlons with wife Felicity Huffman. And, no kidding, woodworking, which he picked
up while making Fargo.

Sorry, Macy seekers: He’s regarded as a homebody.

This season of This Old House is set in Newton (and star Norm Abram and Macy have both been profiled by Fine Woodworking). Or maybe jogging along the Charles?

Mark Wahlberg; The Fighter

Unlike brother Donnie, who’s been spotted at the Estate, Mark seeks more-mellow haunts now that he’s a father of two.

During past visits home, Wahlberg’s broken bread at Excelsior.

The Upper Crust, where the former Dot rat can make like Bachelor No. 2’s Kate Hudson and treat his kids to a few slices.

Christopher Walken; The Lonely Maiden

The mercurial actor’s a foodie, and a suitably odd one: He eschews restaurants, and usually stays somewhere with a kitchen so he can cook for himself.

Barbara Lynch’s Plum Produce and/or its neighbor, Barbara Lynch’s demonstration kitchen, Stir.

An avowed Julia Child disciple, he might be drawn to Savenor’s, Child’s favorite gourmet shop.

Bonus!
Gisele Bündchen; In town for: Tom Brady; rankling Bridget Moynahan

The bombshell is a big shopper and likes to combine commerce with consumption—on past visits she’s been spotted at Louis Boston’s Boston Public.

We’d say KnowFat—except her ex, Leo, went there during The Departed filming. Maybe Stephanie’s on Newbury, where Kate Bosworth dined when shooting 21.

Clio’s sashimi bar, Uni, is not far from Tom’s pad—and being seen eating raw fish can fend off pesky pregnancy rumors