Stupid human tricks

New York David Letterman had a little problem at the home office in Manhattan: A thief made off with $4,000 from a desk inside the Ed Sullivan Theater, police said.

On Monday, an employee at Letterman’s “Late Show” found a desk drawer forced open and $4,000 cash missing, police spokesman Sgt. Kevin Hayes said Tuesday.

A surveillance camera reportedly caught the burglar slipping into the office on Sunday afternoon, but police had made no arrests. The thief, wearing a hooded sweat shirt, managed to cover the camera before opening the desk.

Teri Garr discloses MS

Los Angeles Teri Garr, nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in the 1982 hit movie “Tootsie,” has announced that she has multiple sclerosis, reports Agence France-Press.

In a brief statement issued Tuesday, Garr said she had suffered symptoms of the disease for 19 years.

“I didn’t tell people because I didn’t want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn’t get work,” said Garr, 52, who also starred in “Young Frankenstein” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic auto-immune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, characterized by muscle weakness and blurred vision. The disease afflicts about twice as many women as men typically between the ages of 20 and 40.

Off-Broadway’s hottest ticket

New York The four-week run is practically sold out, and tickets are $100 an off-Broadway record for every seat in the theater, located on a college campus near City Hall.

But then the star is Al Pacino, heading a cast that also includes Charles Durning, Billy Crudup, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, in a revival of Bertolt Brecht’s Nazi allegory set in Chicago, “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.”

The project is a production of the National Actors Theater, founded in 1991 and still run by Tony Randall.

The production, which reportedly cost $1.25 million, runs through Nov. 3 at Pace University. Show spokesman Gary Springer said it was unlikely the engagement would be extended because of the actors’ previous commitments.

Jagger gives back

London Rolling Stone Mick Jagger hasn’t forgotten where he got his start, donating 100,000 pounds ($150,000) to help youngsters at his old school.

Dartford Grammar School in Kent County, southern England, said Monday the 59-year-old singer wants the money to be used for programs that will encourage children to study music.

“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age,” Jagger said from the United States, where the Rolling Stones are on tour. “It is so important that they have somewhere like this where they can share their musical ideas and vision and be able to practice for as long as they like,” he said.