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The independent feature film Boston Girls, which has been shooting in and around Pawtucket since early December, is expected to wrap up filming this week. “It feels like we are shooting eight days a week with blizzard conditions and bitter cold,” said John Waterman, a spokesman for the film company. Waterman said that locations have included McCoy Stadium, the carousel at Slater Park and the Modern Diner.

Camille Solari and Shay Astar co-star in the film, which was written by Solari. The plot revolves around a New Year’s resolution by the two Boston girls of the title, who have had it with their cheating boyfriends and decide to murder everyone who has wronged them.

Also in the film are Danny Trejo of From Dusk Till Dawn, Renee Taylor of TV’s The Nanny, Robert Miano of Donnie Brasco and Damien DiPaola of Showtime’s Brotherhood. The film is directed by Gabriel Bologna, son of Taylor and actor Joseph Bologna.

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A school lunch lady who gained fame as a contestant on the CBS reality show Survivor: China wasn’t telling the truth when she claimed during Sunday’s season finale that she’d been demoted to janitor, her boss says.

Denise Martin of Douglas, Mass., finished fourth in the competition, missing out on the $1 million grand prize.

“They didn’t give me my job back,” Martin, 40, said during the live broadcast. “I’m a janitor now. I clean the toilets. I wash the floors in the bathrooms. I vacuum the kids’ rugs.”

Producer Mark Burnett surprised Martin with $50,000 to help get her life back. But Martin may have some damage control to do when she returns to work.

In an interview yesterday on CBS’ The Early Show, Douglas Schools Superintendent Nancy Lane said Martin had been promoted, at her own request, to custodian in late March, a job that came with more benefits and higher pay.

“We granted her a leave to go to participate in Survivor. And did everything possible to support her,” Lane said. “And when she returned, she of course returned to the position that she left. Which is the custodial position.”

“That’s perfectly accurate, yes,” Martin said in response.

Martin said she decided while she was taping Survivor that she wanted to go back to her lunch lady job. Lane said the job was no longer available, but Martin could apply when there is an opening.

“It was not my intention to be misleading,” Martin said. “I’m sorry and I apologize to everybody.”

Will she accept the $50,000 if it is still offered to her?

“I had no idea that I was going to be awarded that,” she said. “I did not do this for myself, I’ve done this for my family, I’ve done this for my town.”

Margaret Reed, chairwoman of the School Committee, said she was puzzled by Martin’s story.

“Everyone was cheering her on,” Reed said. “And then we get this slap in the face.”

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Ali Larter is engaged to her boyfriend, actor Hayes MacArthur.

“It happened over the weekend,” Larter’s publicist, Dominique Appel, told The Associated Press yesterday. Appel didn’t provide any details.

Larter, 31, plays supermom Niki Sanders on NBC’s Heroes. Her movie credits include Varsity Blues, Legally Blonde and two Final Destination films.