LEGAL BRIEFS ''Bachelor Party'' star Tawny Kitaen is about to be single again, now that her allegedly abused husband, Cleveland Indians pitcher Chuck Finley, has filed for divorce. In court papers filed April 4, three days after Kitaen was charged with two counts of misdemeanor spousal abuse, Finley sought to end the couple's five-year marriage and also got the court to issue two restraining orders, keeping Kitaen away from both Finley and the couple's two daughters (ages 9 and 4). Kitaen was arrested April 1 in Newport Beach, Calif., on charges of attacking her husband with a high-heeled shoe while he was driving -- not atypical car behavior for her, he alleges. (His injuries were serious enough to cause him to miss a game the next day.) He says she's not only a dangerous driver, but she also is addicted to prescription drugs and keeps knives under the bed. In papers she filed in response, Kitaen acknowledged her drug problem and said she'd checked into a 30-day rehab program last week. ''I am seeking treatment for this issue so I can be the healthiest and best mother possible to my two daughters who mean the world to me,'' her statement says. She still faces arraignment for the car incident on April 29 and could wind up with up to $6,000 in fines and a year in jail....
Tammy Wynette's four daughters have reached a confidential, out-of-court settlement in their wrongful-death suit against the doctor they had blamed for contributing to their mother's demise in 1998. The country legend died at age 55 of heart failure caused by chrionic blood clots. Her daughters alleged that her fatal seizure was brought on by the painkiller Versed, which Dr. Wallis Marsh had prescribed her. They sued him for $50 million, but Wednesday's agreement forestalls the trial, which was to have started May 7.
REEL DEALS Two generations of hunks may join forces if Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett agree to star in Revolution Studios' untitled drama about a pair of Los Angeles cops investigating a crime in the music industry. (No, it's not a new Christina Aguilera record.) Directing will be Ron Shelton, who did so well with the aging pro/callow rookie thing in ''Bull Durham.''...
TV producer Darren Star, credited with transforming Candace Bushnell's column-turned-book ''Sex and the City'' into a successful TV comedy, plans to do the same with a similar property, this time on the big screen. He's going to write and direct a film version of Tracy Quan's ''Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel.'' Quan's book originated as a column on Salon.com, a fictionalized version of her own exploits as a high-priced New York call girl. The movie will mark Star's feature directing debut....
Will Ferrell is so money. The ''Saturday Night Live'' star will play the lead in ''Elf,'' a comedy Jon Favreau is directing for New Line. He'll play a man raised by elves at the North Pole (he fell into Santa's gift sack as a tot). Fully grown, he's too tall and klutzy to join in any reindeer games (or something like that), so he's sent back to New York City to reunite with his real family. Favreau (''Made,'' ''Swingers'') may not be the first guy you'd think of to direct a family film, but Christmas movies seem to be getting curiously edgy nowadays.
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