Tattle: Paris Hilton lands another cover shot

PARIS HILTON has been on virtually every other magazine cover, so why not National Geographic?

After all, as we mentioned last week, she did discover the nation of West Africa.

Psych!

It's the Harvard Lampoon's April Fool's spoof of the venerable nature mag, which hit stands yesterday.

The folks at the Lampoon even persuaded NG employees to help with the parody, which includes a satire on Mongolia's wildest waterparks and "Native Girls Gone Wild."

"My guess was they were just extremely bored and they were tired of working with animals and scientists and wanted to hang out with college students," said Hayes Davenport (now there's a Harvard name), who edited the magazine with fellow senior Ross Arbes.

Davenport said that other publications have helped with their parodies in the past, such as when USA Today printed the Lampoon's version on its press in 1989. National Geographic not only helped print the parody and distribute it, Arbes said, but also a designer helped lay out the mag to make it look as much like the original as possible.

"They provided things that were really valuable to us," Arbes said.

In one jab at National Geographic's staid image, the Lampoon created three new editions to help keep the magazine relevant for younger generations, and features Hilton in a "Your Wildest Animal Fantasies" story.

Of course, the Lampoon's version offers a send-up to anthropological nudity. A photo of a lion is actually made up of dozens of images of women's bare chests.

High price for 'Low Dweller'

Brad Ingelsby used to sell insurance and write screenplays on the side. Now he's a screenwriter. His spec script, "The Low Dweller," sparked a bidding war, Variety reports, with Relatively Media paying a minimum of $650,000 for the drama, said to combine elements of "No Country for Old Men" and "A History of Violence."

It was quite the payday for the 27-year-old from suburban Philadelphia, who was contacted by his William Morris agents at his parents' house.

Brad's dad, by the way, is former Villanova basketball star Tom Ingelsby, and brother Marty was a hoops star at Archbishop Carroll and Notre Dame.

Brad played, too, but wisely stuck to writing.

Ridley Scott will direct "The Low Dweller" and Leonardo DiCaprio will star.

He's not with the band;

yes he is

Velvet Revolver founding members Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner announced yesterday that they are giving the boot to singer Scott Weiland.

"This band is all about its fans and its music and Scott Weiland isn't 100% committed to either," Slash said. "Among other things, his increasingly erratic on-stage behavior and personal problems have forced us to move on."

But Weiland won't be out of work long. Billboard.com reports that his old band, Stone Temple Pilots, has reunited and may add a summer tour to previously announced festival dates.

When one door closes, another one opens.

Tattbits

* Adam Sandler, who's 41 and

should know better, broke his ankle over the weekend playing basketball.

It was unclear whether Sandler fell trying to jam or hurt himself while getting beaten by a sick crossover dribble.

According to his publicist he still won the game, which may say more about the competition.

* Emily Leatherman, who was or-

dered in July 2006 to stay away from John Cusack, didn't follow orders.

She has been arrested on suspicion of stalking the actor and violating a restraining order.

Emily was taken into custody Sunday after Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were called to Cusack's neighborhood, where a cab driver reported that a passenger didn't have enough money to pay for the ride to get there, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Monday.

As the deputies were responding to the situation, they were flagged down by Cusack.

"He told them he recognized the woman in the cab and that she had been stalking him," Whitmore said.

Leatherman's being held on $150,000 bail.

* The Hollywood Reporter says that

Jaime Pressly ("My Name Is Earl") will star with Paul Rudd, Jason Segel and Rashida Jones in "I Love You, Man."

The romantic-comedy is about a soon-to-be groom who realizes he has no friends and goes in search of a best man.

* The Hollywood Reporter says

that "CSI" star William Petersen will return for the forensic drama's ninth season, but take off some shows (kind of like Barbara Walters on "The View.")

Also an exec producer of "CSI," Petersen's pay is reportedly in the very ritzy Las Vegas neighborhood of $600,000 per episode.

* The Weinstein Co. and SnapTell have announced a contest to promote the release of Morgan Spurlock's documentary "Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?" (opening April 18).

The idea is to get people to search their neighborhoods to find, photograph and e-mail strategically placed "Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?"-branded reward fliers to a special address.

Philadelphia is one of the participating cities, and one local winner can win $1,000.

The contest starts Monday and runs through April 18.

More details if we get them.

By the way, if you actually find Osama bin Laden, Tattle believes the U.S. government is still offering a reward of $25 million. *

Sportswriter Ted Silary and wire services contributed to this report.

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