Boston Best Guy

By Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan | August 28, 2006

Just a few hours before his sold-out show at Avalon, a scruffy Justin Timberlake answered questions from fans on the second floor of the CambridgeSide Galleria Best Buy. About 200 Timberlake followers were let in to the exclusive listening party (most lined up at 8 a.m. to get in), where Justin sat on a couch in a Chevelle T-shirt, Lacoste sneaks, and jeans and casually played a few of his new songs. He told fans his new favorite sport is golf (because he's ``too old" to run the basketball court), that Nelly Furtado did not sell out on her new album (``I like it better than her old stuff," he said ), and that he'd be playing early that night because, as he put it, ``Boston has a crazy curfew." Two lucky fans -- Emily Magee, 15, of Brighton, and Chantha Lim, 23, of Revere -- were called up to sit with Justin during the event. Magee said that when the microphone was off, the pop star offered her some advice. ``He told me to stay away from boys because boys are trouble. He said that's one of the reasons he was home schooled -- because he had trouble with girls."