Singer tells adoring fans to bag the bagged panties

Las Vegas Tom Jones says he’s insulted when women throw their underwear at him but only if they haven’t been wearing them.

Jones is fed up with women bringing extra pairs of panties in plastic bags to his concerts to throw at him, saying that when the tradition began in the ’60s, “the whole thing was authentic.”

“Nowadays they bring along a plastic bag with their underwear in it,” Jones tells German magazine Bunte. “It has nothing to do with enthusiasm anymore. I actually take it as an insult.

“I give it my all onstage because I want to fill the crowd with enthusiasm but that which comes from the heart and not out of a plastic bag.”

Songwriting added to resume

Los Angeles Art Garfunkel freely admits that Paul Simon was the one with the words during their long musical partnership.

Now, the 60-year-old performer is trying to break out of that image as he makes his songwriting debut on his new album, “Everything Waits to Be Noticed.”

“We have an image of ourselves, and we carry ourselves all through life with some rough sense of ourselves,” Garfunkel told the Daily News of Los Angeles.

“I’ve shifted my way to respecting words, respecting what comes out of my mouth, having a little more sobriety in my expression of things.”

Songwriter Buddy Mondlock and performer Maia Sharp collaborated with Garfunkel, helping to turn some of his poetry into songs.

“I had one of the great thrills of my life just hearing my own words come back to me in song,” Garfunkel said.

Star of ‘Harry Potter’ movies contemplates three and out

London Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy magician in the screen version of “Harry Potter,” says he doesn’t know whether he’ll continue in the role beyond the third movie.

“Every film takes 10 or 11 months to do, so I won’t encounter that decision for quite a while yet,” the 13-year-old actor said Friday. “I’m just concentrating on the third one for now.”

The second film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” opens Nov. 15 in Britain and the United States. It follows last year’s hit “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”

Radcliffe’s 14-year-old co-star Rupert Grint, who plays Harry’s sidekick Ron Weasley, said he plans to stick with the franchise.

Plans call for movie versions of all seven books that writer J.K. Rowling plans for the series.

‘The Candidate’ mulls re-election

Los Angeles Robert Redford may reprise his role as idealistic California politician Bill McKay in a sequel to 1972’s “The Candidate.”

Redford, 65, and screenwriter Larry Gelbart, best known for his work on the TV series “M.A.S.H.,” are developing a script, the trade newspaper Variety said Thursday.

The report said Redford probably would also produce and direct the sequel.