About Town: Rambling Reporter

10:57 PM PDT 11/3/2010 by Merle Ginsberg

Mark Wahlberg takes his Oscar campaign seriously and Jim Wiatt heads back to L.A., while Stephen McPherson mixes it up

WAHLBERG IS GETTING  HIS MINUTE
He’s come a long way, baby — from underwear model/rapper to star-producer (Boardwalk Empire, Entourage) — but Mark Wahlberg might go all the way. As a sign of how serious his Oscar campaign is, the star of The Fighter shot a 60 Minutes segment for later this year, spending four days in his old Boston neighborhood of “Southie” (where his 2006 film The Departed took place) with CBS chief foreign-affairs correspondent and war reporter Lara Logan.