Tattle: Willow Smith as Annie? Bet your bottom dollar

A REMAKE OF "The Karate Kid" worked so well in making 12-year-old

Jaden Smith

a movie star,

Will

and

Jada Pinkett Smith

are going to the remake well again for their 10-year-old daughter,

Willow

.

Willow, who scored a recent pop hit with "Whip My Hair," will not be able to whip her curly wig, as she is set to play the title role in "Annie," in a film being developed by daddy's Overbrook Entertainment, Jay-Z ("Hard Knock Life") and Sony.

Sony's Columbia Pictures first brought "Annie," based on the Broadway musical based on the comic strip, to theaters in 1982.

_ In other news of famous progeny, Bristol Palin may have to put college on hold.

A Phoenix radio station has offered the new Arizona resident a job.

And it's not a grunt-work job - surprising since Bristol is 20 and has no radio experience - it's an on-air job.

Mix 96.9 host Mathew Blades says that Bristol met with station management Friday, and that they still offered her a gig co-hosting Blades' morning show.

Bristol hasn't accepted the offer, but Blades says that she seems interested.

* Speaking of Jay-Z, BANGShowbiz.com reports that he requests four golf carts backstage at every one of his concerts.

Also included among the 57 specific requirements in his rider: hand sanitizer, "nice china," cloth dinner napkins, silver cutlery, four bottles of vodka and tequila, 2004 Sassicaia Italian red wine from the Bolgheri region - which costs more than $200 a bottle - sugar-free Red Bull, orange juice (which "must not contain fruit pulp"), fresh fruit, organic bread and a bottle of honey.

What a diva.

A degree in Beatleology

"When I find myself with finals trouble/Mother Mary comes to me . . ."

Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy, a former Miss Canada finalist, has become the first graduate of Liverpool Hope University's groundbreaking course of study analyzing the Beatles' music and the band's impact on Western culture.

"Help!/I need some answers/ Help!/Not just any answers . . ."

Zahalan-Kennedy graduated yesterday. She is one of 12 full-time students of the program, "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society."

The program also deals with how Liverpool helped shape the group's identity.

Yeah, sure it does. But first, let's listen to "Revolver."

Tattbits

* Motley Crue singer Vince Neil took a plea deal that calls for two weeks of jail time, plus two weeks of house arrest, for driving drunk last summer near the Las Vegas Strip.

Neil pleaded guilty yesterday morning before a Las Vegas justice of the peace to misdemeanor driving under the influence. He's expected to begin serving his sentence Feb. 15, a week after his 50th birthday.

The rocker could have faced up to six months in jail if convicted at trial.

Police stopped Neil in his black Lamborghini last summer after leaving the Las Vegas Hilton, where he owns a bar.

* At the Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Susanna Lo announced that production will start this spring on "Manson Girls," focusing on the female followers of cult leader Charles Manson.

It's like "Mean Girls," but meaner.

* Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem are parents of a baby boy.

A spokeswoman for Penélope confirmed yesterday that she gave birth to a boy last week. She said that "both parents and baby are doing great," but provided no other details.

Not even a name.

* Mike Tyson's new son, born Tuesday in Las Vegas to wife Lakiha Spicer Tyson, does have a name.

Morocco Elijah Tyson. He tipped the scales at 8 pounds, 13 ounces, so he could be a heavyweight.

Since this is Iron Mike's kid, we have only one comment: Great name.

* According to the Hollywood Reporter, Halle Berry has said that she couldn't play Aretha Franklin in a biopic about her life because she can't "carry a tune."

See, she's not perfect.

Aretha, who, by the way, couldn't carry Halle's Catwoman suit, doesn't care. She wants Halle.

"Many actors have portrayed vocalists by lip-synching to the artist's original recordings," Aretha wrote in a letter read on the "Wendy Williams Show" on Monday.

* Jimmy Buffett was rushed to the hospital after falling from an Australian stage yesterday. The 64-year-old "Margaritaville" singer was unconscious for five to 10 minutes and had a large gash in his head, according to concertgoer Sean Fogarty, who spoke with TMZ.com.

Paramedics arrived 15 minutes after the fall, at which point stoned members of the audience finally realized that Buffet was no longer onstage.

* Now that Colin Firth has nabbed an Oscar nomination, does Paul Bettany regret passing on "The King's Speech"?

"I regret not working with such amazing, amazing actors and directors and writers," Bettany said at Sundance. "But no, I have to do the right thing by my family every time."

* Today in world censorship, China has removed from websites a satirical cartoon clip featuring flesh-tearing rabbits. The film's director, Wang Bo, says that the clip is meant to draw attention to injustices over the past year.

Watch it, fella, or it won't be long before China removes you.

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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