Beyonce to sing ‘At Last’ for the Obamas

New York — Beyonce has revealed the song she plans to serenade the Obamas with in their first dance as America’s first couple — and no, she won’t be telling the president to “put a ring on it.”

She will sing the Etta James classic “At Last.”

Beyonce portrayed the blues great in the recent film “Cadillac Records” and sings the song in that movie.

Beyonce will sing to the Obamas at the Neighborhood Ball on Tuesday night.

In a statement, Beyonce said: “I am so honored that I will be performing for President Obama and the first lady. To sing ‘At Last’ while they have their first dance is a dream come true. I could not be more honored and excited that they have asked me to be part of this moment in history.”

Hathaway starstruck over ‘Slumdog’ star

New York — Anne Hathaway is a fan of “Slumdog Millionaire” — and the young star of the film, Dev Patel.

A starstruck Hathaway expressed her love for the actor’s performance in “Slumdog” on the red carpet at the National Board of Review Awards gala in Manhattan.

Meeting Patel for the first time, Hathaway declared: “I love you in your movie so much! … You’re so beautiful in it. You broke my heart. It was gorgeous.”

Patel, pleasantly surprised by Hathaway’s praise, asked her for a hug.

He said: “That means so much to me. You don’t understand. … Thank you Mrs. Hathaway!”

The 26-year-old actress and ex-girlfriend of Raffaello Follieri — who’s now serving a 4 1/2-year prison sentence for fraud — corrected Patel, saying: “Mrs.? Oh no. Miss, miss!”

Patel, 18, was clearly worried he’d offended Hathaway, to which she playfully responded: “No, you’re not offending me — I’m just letting you know that it’s ‘Miss!”‘

The “Slumdog” star, who portrays an orphan boy’s rise to win India’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” accepted his award Wednesday night for breakthrough performance by an actor. Hathaway was honored as best actress for her role in “Rachel Getting Married.”

Lawsuit dishes dirt on Bobby Flay restaurants

New York — A new lawsuit accuses some of celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s restaurants of cheating workers.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court by current and former employees, names as a defendant Bold Food LLC. The company owns or operates Bar Americain and Mesa Grill NYC in Manhattan. Other restaurants are in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

The lawsuit claims Flay’s company violated the wage and hour laws by engaging in improper tip-pooling practices. It also says the company failed to pay proper overtime pay and failed to reimburse employees for some expenses.

A spokesman for Flay and the restaurants did not immediately return a telephone message for comment on Friday.

It’s one of a string of similar lawsuits filed on behalf of employees of New York restaurants.

Knoxville explains grenade in blog post

Los Angeles — Johnny Knoxville jokes that he was worried airport security brought out a bomb-sniffing dog because he was carrying one of his movies.

It was a prop grenade, not “Daltry Calhoun” or “Walking Tall,” that caused the concern and could lead to a misdemeanor charge.

Police at Los Angeles International Airport detained the “Jackass” star Thursday morning over the grenade, which they say lacked explosives or a firing pin. He was released in time to make his flight to Miami, where he blogged that a “wardrobe girl” put the prop in his luggage after a shoot.

He credited police and took responsibility for not checking his own bag, adding the zinger that when he saw the bomb squad, he hoped he “didn’t bring any of my films in my backpack!”

American painter Wyeth dies at 91

Philadelphia — Artist Andrew Wyeth, who portrayed the hidden melancholy of the people and landscapes of Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley and coastal Maine in works such as “Christina’s World,” died early Friday. He was 91.

Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, according to Jim Duff, director of the Brandywine River Museum.

The son of famed painter and book illustrator N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth gained wealth, acclaim and tremendous popularity on his own. But he chafed under criticism from some experts who regarded him as a facile realist, not an artist but merely an illustrator.

“He was a man of extraordinary perception, and that perception was found in his thousands of images — many, many of them iconic,” Duff said Friday in an interview. “He highly valued the natural world, the historical objects of this world as they exist in the present and strong-willed people.”

A Wyeth retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2006 drew more than 175,000 visitors in 15 1/2 weeks, the highest-ever attendance at the museum for a living artist. The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, a converted 19th-century grist mill, includes hundreds of works by three generations of Wyeths.

Wyeth even made “Peanuts,” in a November 1966 comic strip: After a fire in his dog house destroys his van Gogh, Snoopy replaces it with an Andrew Wyeth.