Buffett collects first No. 1 album

Los Angeles — In an era of teen pop and youthful hip-hop, the last person you’d expect to see at the top of the charts is a good timin’ ole boy such as Jimmy Buffett.

But the king of the parrot-heads’ new album, “License to Chill,” entered the national album sales chart Wednesday at No. 1 after selling 239,000 copies in its first week, reports Nielsen SoundScan.

The CD, the first No. 1 album in Buffett’s three-decade career, features interpretations by the 57-year-old singer of some of his favorite “bar gig” tunes, including Hank Williams’ “Hey Good Lookin’.” It also features duets with such country stars as Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and Martina McBride.

Sutherland does strip tease

Wellington, New Zealand — Kiefer Sutherland stunned a group of small-town New Zealand women with an impromptu strip routine at a club in the North Island community of Raetihi.

Sutherland slipped out of his socks and whipped off his shirt, waving it above his head to the tune of the Tom Jones hit “You Can Leave Your Hat On” at Raetihi’s Cosmopolitan Club, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported.

The 37-year-old actor, star of television’s action-thriller “24,” was then ushered off the stage. The incident occurred last Thursday but wasn’t reported until Wednesday.

“Kiefer had a hell of a night,” club President Danny Mills told The Associated Press. “He had an enjoyable evening and so did everyone that was here.”

‘Newhart Show’ statue planned

New York — Bob Newhart’s role as psychologist Bob Hartley on “The Bob Newhart Show” will be commemorated by cable network TV Land and the city of Chicago with a life-size statue.

The bronze sculpture will be unveiled Tuesday at 430 N. Michigan Ave., in front of the office building seen in the opening credits of the popular ’70s show, TV Land announced.

It’s the latest in a series of statues including Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) and his son, Opie (Ron Howard), of “The Andy Griffith Show” in Raleigh, N.C.; Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) of “The Honeymooners” at New York’s Port Authority bus terminal; and Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) of the “Mary Tyler Moore” show in Minneapolis.

Abercrombie changes focus

New York — Readers looking for nude models in compromising positions won’t see them in Abercrombie & Fitch’s new magazine. Instead, they’ll find actors and other “rising stars.”

Michelle Trachtenberg (television’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Tyler Hoechlin (“Road to Perdition”) and Poppy Montgomery (“Without a Trace”) are among those who sport a new line of Abercrombie & Fitch garb — Ezra Fitch — within the magazine’s pages.

The magazine only goes as far as a handful of shirtless men and kissy opposite-sex couples.

“This is a more creative direction,” Abercrombie & Fitch spokesman Tom Lennox told The Associated Press recently.