Rosie not so nice anymore

Uncasville, Conn. In her first standup show in six years, Rosie O’Donnell trashed Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Anne Heche and Sharon Stone.

“When you have a show, you have to be nice to people,” she said Saturday at the Mohegan Sun casino. “Now I can say what I want.”

Rosie, a die-hard Democrat, said she refused to speak to Clinton before he wailed on his sax Friday with Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi’s star-studded band because he lied about his relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.

“He disgusts me,” Rosie said.

Rosie also unloaded on Jackson, calling him a freak and a pedophile; on Stone for reciting John Lennon’s “Imagine” at an AIDS fund-raiser; and on Heche for telling Barbara Walters she was never really gay.

Napoleon project came up short

Los Angeles Details on late director Stanley Kubrick’s unfulfilled plans to make a movie about Napoleon will be published in a book next year, his family said.

His widow, Christiane, and her brother, Jan Harlan the director’s executive producer are assembling the book “Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon His Greatest Film Never Made,” The Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday.

Kubrick, who died at 70 in March 1999, was obsessed with the project for 30 years. Kubrick’s film would have chronicled Napoleon from birth to death, Harlan said, and was planned as a follow-up to his 1968 sci-fi epic “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

But the 1970 film “Waterloo,” starring Rod Steiger as Napoleon in the days before the title battle, flopped at the box office, and Kubrick never got funding.

A hunk, a hunk of memorabilia

Indianapolis Like the white jumpsuits an overweight Elvis Presley wore in his later years, a time capsule commemorating the King’s last performance was just a little too tight.

The container of fan letters and other memorabilia was to be sealed Tuesday in a marker on the former site of Market Square Arena downtown, where Elvis performed his final concert on June 26, 1977. He died less than two months later, on Aug. 16.

But the capsule was too wide to fit inside the marker. So it was sent to a welder for repairs in time for the memorial’s dedication on Wednesday.

A plaque with pictures of Elvis and Market Square Arena will sit atop the memorial, with a dedication reading in part: “Elvis has left the building.”

Pavarotti plans his finale

New York Luciano Pavarotti has picked a date to sing his last note on his 70th birthday, Oct. 12, 2005.

The famed tenor told Connie Chung on her CNN show, “Connie Chung Tonight,” that he’d be busy for two or three more years and then would retire. He said he wouldn’t sing again, “not even when I’m taking the shower.”