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B16 The Boston Globe TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009 Names Mark Shanahan Meredith Goldstein Gately fans complain Britain's press watchdog said yesterday it had received 21,000 complaints about a newspaper column on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately after critics used Twitter to brand the article homophobic and insensitive. Gately, 33, died Oct. 10 while vacationing on the Spanish island of Majorca. An autopsy found he had died from pulmonary edema, or fluid in the lungs. Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir wrote Friday that Gately's death was "not, by any yardstick, a natural one" and said he died in "sleazy" circumstances.

She noted that Gately had been to a bar and invited a young man back to his apartment the night before he died. Anger at the column swept social networking site Twitter soon after Moir's piece appeared on the paper's website. Actor Stephen Fry urged his 860,000 Twitter followers to contact the Press Complaints Commission. Other prominent Tweeters followed suit. (AP) What will Rod say? Prosecutors said yesterday they are worried about what ousted Governor Rod Blagojevich might say on Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" TV show.

The show is likely to air just as jurors are being qualified for his corruption trial, which is scheduled to start June 3, and anything Blagojevich (inset) might say Bx jjjjlB ROGER FARRINGTON Governor Deval Patrick shared a laugh with Christina Economos at the Millennium Bostonian Hotel. Celebrating pioneers in health Aerosmith in Hawaii for court-ordered gigs Aerosmith climbed back in the saddle yesterday, if only briefly, to play the first of two court-ordered shows in Hawaii. The creaky classic rockers, whose future has been very much in doubt since Steven Tyler tumbled off the stage in August, played in Honolulu to make up for a concert it abruptly canceled in 2007. (Disaffected fans had filed a class-action lawsuit forcing the Boston bad boys to make good on the canceled gig.) Yesterday's appearance at Blaisdell Arena was actually the band's second since Tyler took a header at the Sturgis Motorcyle Rally in South Dakota. Last week Aerosmith made big bucks performing a private concert in San Francisco sponsored by software giant Oracle.

Though they're once again sharing the same stage, it's not clear whether Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry are even speaking to one another. Tyler had largely retreated from public view after breaking his shoulder in the fall, and it looked for a while like the band might finally be kaput. (In a photo taken at a Pembroke package store a few weeks after Sturgis, the 61-year-old singer looked more like a retiree than a rock star.) Joe Perry's wife, Billie, took to Twitter yesterday to critique the Oahu show, raving: "Joey Tom were locked into a pounding groove that pushed it home. Aerosmith players moved like a big black freight train traveling at bullet-train speed through the whole set. Unstoppable band." But asked by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin if Aerosmith intends to carry on, Perry sounded iffy: "We still feel we can do it.

But it's like driving your old car one day it doesn't start." The band plays its second Hawaii show, at War Memorial Stadium on Maui, today. Cinematographer Willis would happily skip trip He doesn't want to sound ungrateful, but Gordon Willis isn't all that excited about going to LA. "I don't know if I can get into a black suit and talk to people," said the cinematographer, who's been chosen to receive an honorary Academy Award. "Talking to people is a real pain in the expletive, and then there's the Wolfgang Puck cuisine and all that." Willis, who lives on the Cape, is one of the most influential cinematographers of his era. He worked on seven movies that garnered 39 nominations and 19 Oscars, including "The Godfather," "The Godfather: Part II," and Woody Allen's "Manhattan" and "Zelig." Of course, Willis is pleased he was picked, even if he's not enthused about the prospect of traveling.

"I was kind of hoping they could Fed Ex it out here," he said. "Oh, well, I have a lot of friends there I can see." Not coincidentally the Harvard Film Archive is hosting a retrospective of Willis's work next month. The title? "The Man Who Shot the Godfather." Melrose is 'The Town' Ben Affleck drew quite a crowd yesterday at the corner of Main and West Foster streets in Melrose, where the director of "The Town" was filming in and around an abandoned bank building. Nicole Waldert, who lives nearby, managed to snap a picture of the homeboy sipping coffee. "It was cool," said Waldert, who stood around watching and waiting for about 90 minutes.

Mayor Robert Dolan said in an e-mail that the crew would film in the city again today, adding that it's business as usual for Main Street merchants. "No complaints," he said. The New England Healthcare Institute presented its annual Innovators in Health Awards the other night, and recipients included Dr. Atul Gawande of Brigham and Women's Hospital (and writer for The New Yorker); Eric Lander, a lead researcher on the Human Genome Project and a founder of the Broad Institute; Dr. Barry Zuckerman, chief of pediatrics at Boston Medical Center; and Christina Economos of Tufts University and "Shape Up Somerville" fame.

Governor Deval Patrick was there to congratulate the honorees. O'Reilly comes to BU Fox News yakker Bill O'Reilly will hold forth Friday at his alma mater. The right-wing host of "The O'Reilly Factor" returns to Boston University as part of the College of Communication Distinguished Alumni Awards event. O'Reilly, who graduated in 75, will be joined by former NBC News VP Bill Wheatley, Class of '70, for a one-on-one conversation billed as "A Bold, Fresh Look at the Future ofNews." The big sell In her never-ending bid to hype her website, Boldfacers founder Lisa Pier-pont installed a "pop-up store" at her offices the other night. The gone-in-a-flash guerilla shopfest featured the work of Mexican-born graffiti artist Victor "Marka 27" Quinonez, artist Ryan Lombardi, Karmaloop buyer-turned-children's wear designer Renatta Hos-sein, and former Heyday footwear founder Darin Hager, who used to ply his talents for Puma.

about the evidence could cause complications, prosecutors told US District Judge James B. Zagel. Blago jevich has "repeat edly commented on the evidence" on TV and radio shows in the months since he was indicted on charges of scheming to trade or sell President Obama's former US Senate seat, Assistant US Attorney Reid Schar told Zagel. Prosecutors did not ask Zagel to bar Blagojevich from going on the show. The judge told Blagojev-ich's attorneys to work out an agreement with prosecutors that would allow Blagojevich to appear on the show but prevent the sort of remarks that might cause concern.

(AP) CBS honors newsman A month after a public memorial service for CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite, the network brought back many of its old-timers yesterday to pay tribute to Don Hewitt, a CBS News lifer who created "60 Minutes." Hewitt, who ran TVs first newsmagazine from 1968 to 2004, died in August of pancreatic cancer at age 86. Joan Ganz Cooney, a friend who helped create "Sesame Street," said Hewitt ranked with Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, and ABC executive Roone Arledge as the four most important men in the development of TV news. "They're the ones who showed what television news could be," Cooney said. "They're the ones that others followed." (AP) 'Good Hair' gets nod A judge has refused to halt the release of the Chris Rock film "Good Hair." Rock and the film's producers were sued by Regina Kimbell, who claimed the comedian stole several ideas for his film from her work.

Kimbell, who produced the documentary "My Nappy Roots," said she screened her film for Rock in 2007. US District Judge Dale S. Fischer watched both films and says she didn't see substantial similarities. "Good Hair" has been in limited release and will open nationwide Friday. (AP) Brahms The A-major, Op.

26 Piano Quartet of Johannes Brahms, featuring all four players, was, at least on the surface, more hospitable chamber-music comforts, but, like Haydn, its geniality is hardly naive. The group's sound a dark, Rembrandt-like varnish suited the rhetoric, in which even the most seemingly clear-cut statements tend to blur into shadow and storm. (Thompson and Mark were particularly well-matched in this, their urgency heightened by expressive reticence.) After the Harbison, I overheard one concertgoer assure another that the Brahms would be maybe, but only if you're in the habit of taking happy endings for granted. Brahms earns his sun by lasting through the night. Playing around Vertical Horizon Matt Scannell, Jason Sutter, Corey McCormick, and Keith Kane (above) played a few numbers from the band's new album, "Burning the Days," at the Mix 104.1 Lounge yesterday.

Echo the Bunnymen snuck into Boston for a show Sunday at Great Scott. Though not widely advertised, the gig, part of the Fenway Recordings Sessions promoted by Mark Kates, was sold out. (We saw state Representative Kevin G. Honan in the packed house.) After the show, Kates joined Echo the Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch at Eastern Standard for a steak. RANDY GROSS Victor "Marka 27" Quinonez and Lisa Pierpont at the "pop-up store." via Schubert, contrasts to the Schubert, everything projected outward, even the body language more extroverted (especially from Deveau, his theatrical physicality matching his incisive playing).

Harbison's program note claimed a connection with Haydn's style, but the music is heavy with baggage picked up on its journey back to Haydn's time the opening movements carry the perfume of Romanticism, a scherzo burst provides plenty of early-modernist motions to go through, while the finale opts for a gnomic expressionism, hollow plucks and the rough buzz of paper on the piano's strings. The drama broods, but the dramatic energy is always pushed to the fore, the music working out its trials on a public stage. 'He had this amazing Mekia Cox, a backup dancer for Michael Jackson, saying the King of Pop's natural musk triggered a positive response in those around him A sly salute to Haydn Globe correspondent Travis Andersen contributed to this report. Read the Names blog at www.boston.comnamesblog. Names can be reached atnamesglobe.com or at 617-929-8253.

Marcus Thompson, Boston Chamber Music Society's artistic director. By Matthew Guerrieri GLOBE CORRESPONDENT CAMBRIDGE For his first concert as the Boston Chamber Music Society's new artistic director, violist Marcus Thompson honored an absent guest, as he remarked to the audience. Nothing by Joseph Haydn appeared on Sunday night's program, but the music that did could claim at least a tenuous link to that Classical master. Franz Schubert, for instance, might have been more influenced by Haydn's onetime student Beethoven, but Schubert's B-flat major String Trio (D. 581) made an unpretentious, Haydnesque opener.

It sounds like music written for friends, and Thompson, violinist Ida Levin, and guest cellist Andrew Mark MUSIC REVIEW BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY Marcus Thompson, artistic director At: Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Sunday rendered it that way: not playing to the crowd so much as letting them eavesdrop, the work's compact phrases gently rounded off, like the shorthand of familiar conversation. For John Harbison's 2003 Piano Trio No. 2, Levin and Mark were joined at the piano by Thompson's (and Harbison's) MIT colleague David Deveau. Both piece and performance were temperamental RED Black GL B16 20:11 FIRST.