Hollywood heavyweight Robert De Niro hit the 15th hole at the Gannon Golf Club in Lynn yesterday to shoot scenes for the Mel Gibson flick Edge of Darkness.

De Niro, who plays a CIA operative in the emotional thriller, spent the day trying to get out of a sand trap while the cameras rolled.

We hear that the director, Martin Campbell, of Casino Royale fame, was unable to fit the actor, the sand trap and the Boston skyline in his shot so the groundskeeping crew at Gannon spent the last week excavating the pit for the flick.

“They actually ended up liking the way it turned out, so they’re going to keep it,” said Someone Who Knows.

Gannon is open to the public today - but only holes 1 through 9: Bobby D. and the rest of the “Edge” crew have the back nine.

Source: The Boston Herald

Candids

~ Aug 23 - Mel Hearts Vitamins
~ Jul 13 - Leaving Cri-Help in North Hollywood

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The Track Girls are runnin’ with a story of Mel Gibson visiting Kings Lanes in Back Bay.

The “Aussie” star is here to scope out the local scene prior to filming Edge of Darkness beginning on August 18. Gibson shares the bill with Robert De Niro in what’s sure to be a hit among crime and sci-fi fans.’

The Girls mention that Mel also checked out Mantra and JJ Foley’s over the weekend. Why, Melly’s shaping up to be a regular ol’ Bostonian! We think we’d still be more excited to see De Niro or Bojana Novakovic about town.

Source: Bostonist

Sightings of Mel Gibson, currently in Boston filming Edge of Darkness, have been pouring in to Loaded Gun all week. The flick, a thriller about a cop who investigates the murder of his protester daughter, has taken over Albany Street near Harrison and Mass Ave.

Some tips have been off the record sent via e-mail while one reader gives a detailed account:

“Been spotting him all week around 670 Albany Street where the mock Boston Police Deptartment was set up for the film,” the source writes. “He looks incredible–tanned and fit.”

The source continues, “Today, he stopped to speak to us from the rented blue Cadillac Escalade while on lunch break. Exciting times in the South End.”

Source: The Loaded Gun

Edge of Darkness star Mel Gibson landed in town and, making like Braveheart, he’s stormed a few of the local fun spots and watering holes!

The Aussie actor, who begins filming the big-budget thriller with Robert De Niro and Bojana Novakovic Aug. 18, checked out the rockin’ weekend scene at Mantra in the Ladder District to hang with his 25-plus production posse.

Source: The Boston Herald

Media’s so bored and lame, lol.

Hollywood star Mel Gibson moved to quash speculation surrounding his love life today following reports he has become close to a glamorous Russian musician.

The Australian publication Women’s Day said that married Gibson had become close to an Eastern European known only as Oksana while filming his new movie Edge Of Darkness.

The publication cited numerous occasions when the pair had been seen together in Gibson’s trailer, claiming that tongues were wagging about the pair’s relationship on the set.

However, Gibson’s spokesman Alan Neirob shot down the reports.

He told MailOnline that Oksana is merely ‘one of the artists on Mel’s recording label Icon and is currently in the US recording a new album. She’s a musician.’

Women’s Day claimed Gibson had become close to the slim brunette on the Boston movie set.

The publication reported Oksana has been spotted on the set three days in a row, on one occasion emerging from the 52-year-old actor’s private trailer.

The photographs have caused a stir in the actor’s native Australia.

The Lethal Weapon star’s wife, Robyn, 52, was expected to visit the set from LA, however she is yet to do so, according to a report.

The pair have been married for 28 years and have seven children together.

Gibson has previously credited his wife for her support during his high-profile scandals.

Gibson was famously arrested in 2006 with his blood-alcohol level one and a half times over the limit.

At the time of his arrest the staunch Catholic swore at the officer who stopped him, saying: ‘The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.’

Gibson, who was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, repeatedly apologised for making the derogatory comment, later explaining that he had battled with alcoholism his whole life.

Asked in a television what he told his wife, he said: ‘I just told her straight out - “Slipped again”. And, uh, she was like - of course, she doesn’t like that. But she was gracious, compassionate.’

He was also asked how many times he could expect her to bear the brunt of his behavior, to which he responded: ‘Boy, I don’t know. Good question. I don’t know the answer to it.’

An email to Mel Gibson’s representative was not immediately returned.

Source: Mail Online

This is the least judgmental article I’ve read in a long while. Thumbs up for Mel.

Mel Gibson has been frequently visiting the bars in Boston since his arriving there last week, buying alcoholic drinks for his friends, after being charged with drunk driving in 2006.

Close friends insist that Gibson doesn’t drink, though he was spotted buying shots for pals at Mantra last week and showed up over the weekend in Sullivan’s Pub, Charlestown, where he signed autographs.

“Not at all. He goes out; he socializes and has a good time. Maybe the people he’s with are drinking but he doesn’t”, said a source close to Gibson.

Still, there was one patron at Mantra who swears he saw Mel drink a shot and a beer there. And one of the boyos at Sullivan’s said the “Passion of the Christ” impresario hoisted a Guinness or two at the pub.

But Gibson has been a model citizen since following court-ordered treatment for alcoholism two years ago.

The actor received charges of drunken driving in 2006, serving three years’ probation, a fine and alcohol-rehabilitation classes.

During his arrest, Gibson apologized deeply.

Yesterday, Gibson began filming Edge of Darkness in Boston. This flick is a thriller about a cop who investigates the murder of his protester daughter. The flick co-stars Robert De Niro, and it marks Gibson’s comeback in front of the camera after a 6-year-break.

Source: International Business Times

Earlier this year, Hollywood transformed Rockport into the picturesque fishing town of Sitka, Alaska.

Now, another Tinseltown crew has struck a deal to film here. Only this time, Rockport — specifically Cape Hedge Beach — will appear on the big screen as itself. And on center stage for the drama Edge of Darkness when it films here will be Mel Gibson.

Filming is set to take place on Cape Hedge Beach on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 25 and 26. According to Town Administrator Michael Racicot. The scene is said to feature Gibson’s character returning to Cape Hedge Beach, his daughter’s favorite childhood place, to scatter his daughter’s ashes into the sea.

According to a plot outline on the Internet Movie Data Base Web site, Gibson plays Boston homicide detective Thomas Craven, who while investigating the death of his activist daughter, uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts a CIA agent (Robert DeNiro) tasked with cleaning up the evidence.

DeNiro will not take part in the Rockport shoot, Racicot said.

Selectmen voted unanimously last week to approve a location agreement with a film crew requesting to shoot scenes for Edge of Darkness.

A representative from the crew met with the Conservation Commission, harbormasters and Police Department in preparation for requesting the location agreement. The crew will only need use of the nearby parking lot and a section of the beach, Racicot said. No structures will be built on the beach, he said.

As part of the location agreement, the production company, which was not identified, agreed to donate $2,000 toward Rockport’s yet-to-be-constructed animal shelter.

Prior to this year, it had been five years since Rockport’s rugged coastline or quaint downtown shops had served as a backdrop for a major Hollywood production.

Before the Walt Disney production The Proposal, filmed on Bearskin Neck back in April, the last film shot in Rockport had been scenes for 2003’s Stuck on You, which starred Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear. Rockport received $5,000 from 20th Century Fox to film Stuck on You; selectmen used the money to renovate Boy Scout Hall.

Filming for Edge of Darkness began in the South Boston neighborhood last week. The movie is slated for a 2009 release.

Source: Gloucester Times

Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro stopped at Abe & Louie’s the other night, huddling in the private dining room downstairs.

The A-list actors, who are in town to shoot Edge of Darkness, were accompanied by their bodyguards. De Niro, we’re told, had the crispy pork dish, while Gibson didn’t order dinner.

Source: The Boston Globe

The Track Girls are runnin’ with a story of Mel Gibson visiting Kings Lanes in Back Bay.

The “Aussie” star is here to scope out the local scene prior to filming Edge of Darkness beginning on August 18. Gibson shares the bill with Robert De Niro in what’s sure to be a hit among crime and sci-fi fans.

The Girls mention that Mel also checked out Mantra and JJ Foley’s over the weekend. Why, Melly’s shaping up to be a regular ol’ Bostonian!

Source: Bostonist