Close encounters
Glenn Close is having a close encounter of the third kind and she likes it.
"I call actors the alien nation," she tells Us Weekly in the March 26 issue. "It's hard for me to be away from my own kind. I'm very happy with my fellow aliens."
Close says her oldest and dearest friend is Mary Beth Hurt, whom she met in the 1970s in the Phoenix Theater Company, and the two live down the street from each other.
She also spends a lot of time with Robert Pastorelli, her co-star in the television version of "South Pacific," which will air on ABC on March 26. But she says despite the rumors, she is not dating Pastorelli, best known for playing Eldin the house painter on "Murphy Brown."
"You will see us hanging out," the 54-year-old actress says. "He's a great friend. I love his company. And we probably would see more of each other if we had the time."
Letterman lineup
Who's that new comedian doing stand-up on David Letterman's "Late Show"? Or, more specifically, that old comedian?
It's Jerry Seinfeld, who next Wednesday will make his first TV appearance doing his stand-up act since his HBO special in August 1998.
Seinfeld has made 41 guest appearances on the Letterman show, most recently singing "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" from "The Sound of Music" with "Seinfeld" pal Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
The rock band Aerosmith will also appear on the show, two days after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Management dispute
Singer Kenny Rogers has sued his manager of 33 years after firing him two months ago.
Rogers last week filed a lawsuit in Davidson County Circuit Court against Ken Kragen, who also has guided the careers of Trisha Yearwood, Travis Tritt, Lionel Richie, Olivia Newton-John, Burt Reynolds and the Smothers Brothers, among others.
The suit claims Kragen had been disloyal and lured away the new teen trio 3 of Hearts from Rogers' Dreamcatcher Management Co. to Kragen's own management company. That group is scheduled to release its first album on RCA Records this summer.
Rogers charges Kragen tried unsuccessfully to steal country acts Diamond Rio and Sara Evans from Dreamcatcher.
The 62-year-old singer fired Kragen on Jan. 22 as his personal manager and as president of Dreamcatcher Management.
Driven to the track
Jason Priestley has a new zip code 46222.
That's part of the shipping address for Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the former star of "Beverly Hills, 90210" will be pursuing a new line of work.
Priestley, who has dabbled in race car driving, signed on to be the third man in ABC Sports' broadcasting booth for its Indy Racing League season coverage, which starts Sunday in Phoenix and includes the Indianapolis 500 in May.
He'll join anchor Bob Jenkins and new analyst Larry Rice.
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