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Actor Kevin Spacey has installed an ''autograph" flap at London's Old Vic Theatre, so he can meet and greet fans after performances. Since becoming artistic director at the historic venue, Spacey has drawn huge crowds to watch his plays. They've grown so large that he's fitted a contraption that allows him to reach out and grab programs and scraps of paper to sign without greeting fans in person.

Jailhouse rap

Rapper Beanie Sigel, whose music frequently glamorizes a criminal lifestyle, spent about an hour in jail yesterday after a judge ruled he had to pay $26,000 in child support and $2,000 in fines. A Philadelphia Family Court judge sentenced Sigel, 31, to six months in prison, but said the rapper could get out if he paid the money to his children by two different mothers.

Beatle serenade in space

Paul McCartney will sing ''Good Day Sunshine" and ''English Tea" tomorrow to NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, who are on an international space station 220 miles above earth. McCartney will sing from California via NASA television.

Cash daughter: Mom's portrayal unfair

Kathy Cash, one of Johnny Cash's five children, was so bothered by how her mother is portrayed in the new movie ''Walk the Line" that she walked out of a family-only screening five times. She actually thinks the movie, which opens Nov. 18, is good. But she says the film unfairly shows her mother, Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto Distin (played by Ginnifer Goodwin), as a shrew. ''My mom was basically a nonentity in the entire film except for the mad little psycho who hated his career," Kathy Cash says. ''That's not true."

DiCaprio eyes 'Blink' role

Leonardo DiCaprio may star in a film based on Malcolm Gladwell's nonfiction bestseller ''Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking." Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for writing the drugs saga ''Traffic," is adapting and directing the Universal Pictures project. ''Blink" is a story about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. The studio is shelling out $1 million for the rights from Gladwell and $2 million for Gaghan to write the screenplay.

A change would do them

'When our publicists called these magazines to say we haven't split, [they] were all so disappointed because . . . that's what sells the magazines.' Singer Sheryl Crow, whose significant other is Lance Armstrong, on the downside of dating a celeb.

FROM WIRE REPORTS