FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, October 17, 2003

BROKEN SILENCE: Folk-rockers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel kicking off a 40-date world tour Thursday. It's the first time the duo have toured together as Simon & Garfunkel since 1982-83.

SIMON & GARFUNKEL ADD: Rock and roll pioneers the Everly Brothers joining Simon & Garfunkel's Old Friends Tour, promoters confirmed on Friday. Don and Phil Everly made a surprise appearance at Simon and Garfunkel's first tour stop in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

ELEVATION: U2 giving a financial lift to a sex abuse charity facing closure because of a funding crisis, donating more than $46,000 to keep the Irish branch of the One in Four support group going.

TERMINATED: The Los Angeles City Attorney going to court this week to have a mural of Arnold Schwarzenegger advertising the DVD release of T3 removed from a building. The mural allegedly violates billboard restrictions.

TRESPASSERS WILL BE TERMINATED: A man pleaded no contest to charges of trespassing at Arnold Schwarzenegger's Brentwood estate; he was ordered to undergo psychological counseling and sentenced to three year's probation in Los Angeles Superior Court.

HE'LL BE BACK? Organizers of Hollywood's annual Christmas Parade hoping to lure Governor-elect Schwarzenegger to be grand marshall for this year's event, set for November 30. The actor-turned-politician served as grand marshall in 1990.

MUST-SEE RADIO: Pamela Anderson will be doing a topless radio show for Sirius satellite radio. The hourlong Club Pam show, broadcast from the ex-Baywatcher's bedroom, debuts October 24.

AMAZING CAREER BOOST: Reichen Lehmkuhl, winner of The Amazing Race, will appear on three October episodes of CBS' The Young and the Restless; Lehmkuhl, who calls appearing on the show "a highlight" in her life, will play a waiter.

NOT DECONSTRUCTING WOODY? Woody Allen's publicist telling the Associated Press on Friday that Allen is not close to a deal to write his memoirs, contradicting an earlier report. There is no timetable for the book, the publicist says.

FINDING MIDDLE GROUND? Hollywood's major film studios on Thursday hinting they may strike a compromise on their strict ban on Oscar screeners that has angered independent filmmakers and actors and actresses.

SIMPLE CASTING: Suzanne Pleshette will play the grandma on at least one episode of the late John Ritter's sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. James Garner is already to set to guest star as the grandfather.

WELL DESERVED: Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep set to receive the American Film Institute's 32nd AFI Film Life Achievement Award at a gala tribute on June 10 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

GOODBYE, CHARITY BALL: Elton John abruptly backing out of a benefit concert he was supposed to coheadline Thursday in Los Angeles with former Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Elton cited unspecified personal reasons for his withdrawal.

FOR HIS SERVICE: Wayne Newton set to receive the Bob Hope lifetime service award at the upcoming Las Vegas Comedy Festival for his years entertaining U.S. troops

GETTING THE BOOT: Michelle Tesauro, a 22-year-old student from New Jersey, voted out of the Drake tribe on last night's episode of Survivor: Pearl Islands.

OUT OF THE BLUE: TV Guide reporting that NYPD Blue's Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) will be getting married to his girlfriend, played by Charlotte Ross in order to work her real-life pregnancy is going to be worked into the show.

JAILHOUSE ROCKS: A man dressed as Elvis Presley attempted to rob a Shoney's restaurant in Virginia on Thursday. He managed to leave the building without getting caught.

IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR: Robert Redford set to helm the romantic thriller The Company You Keep, about a single attorney whose life is disrupted when his past as a Weather Underground militant comes back to haunt him and he's forced to look up an old flame to prove his innocence.

ON A ROLL: Narc helmer Joe Carnahan signing on to direct Void, a gritty crime drama about a female Chicago cop who must transfer a dangerous criminal she helped out behind bars.

KUDOS: Kim Novak, who starred in the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo, named the recipient of the 2003 George Eastman Award. The award, presented by the Eastman House, honors actors and directors for distinguished contributions to the art of film.

HIS STORY: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's Warner Bros.-based production company optioning the feature film rights to A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, Mariane Pearl's memoir about slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.