Sexiest woman alive

Los Angeles — Angelina Jolie, who manages to mesmerize men — and fight off robot invaders — with just one eye in her most recent movie, has been named the “sexiest woman alive” in the latest edition of Esquire magazine.

Jolie, featured as the alluring fighter pilot with an eye patch in “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” was the top pick of the magazine’s editors and mostly male readers to grace the cover of Esquire’s annual Women We Love issue.

The 29-year-old Jolie received 7 percent of all votes cast by readers.

Halle Berry ran a close second with 6 percent, while newlywed pop princess Britney Spears made the cut this year at No. 3.

‘Shrek’ Broadway-bound

New York — “Shrek,” the tale of a lovable green ogre, was one of the biggest movies of the last several years. And its sequel was equally successful.

So what is left to conquer?

Broadway, says Sam Mendes, director of the Oscar-winning “American Beauty” and creative producer of the upcoming stage version of “Shrek.”

Workshops of the musical will be held sometime in 2005, according to Mendes, whose Scamp Film and Theatre Ltd., will co-produce the musical, along with DreamWorks, which did the movies. No timetable has been set for the opening.

Decide to stay home

San Francisco — “South Park” co-creator Matt Stone has a message for all you undecided voters: “Stay home. It doesn’t matter who you’re gonna vote for. If you really don’t know who you’re gonna vote for, or are uninformed, or haven’t really thought about it? Just stay home.”

Stone and Trey Parker have teamed up for the puppet parody, “Team America: World Police.” A parody of 1980s action movies, the film ridicules both Democrats and Republicans.

In person, Stone has little patience for those on the political fence. “If you really don’t know or you’re just going to vote for George Bush because he’s already in office, or you’re gonna vote for John Kerry because he’s on the cover of Rolling Stone, don’t do that. That’s lame. Just stay home,” Stone told the San Francisco Chronicle in Sunday’s editions.