Sideshow: Of Marilyn and a pretender

Forty-five years after her death, screen legend

Marilyn Monroe

continues to make news. First up, Las Vegas resident

Lawrence Nicastro

today plans to unveil a rare photo of the screen siren posing as a nude hitchhiker.

Nicastro said he ran a service station in the Bronx in '62 when a man dropped off a convertible for repairs. When the guy never returned, Nicastro put the contents of the car in storage. He said he found the picture last year when he was going through all that junk.

Meanwhile, our generation's greatest actress,

I Know Who Killed Me

star

Lindsay Lohan

, appears nude on the cover of New York mag made up to look like Monroe. The pic, which was taken by

Bert Stern

, re-creates a famous '62 photo Stern took of Monroe. Asked about the nudity, LiLo said, "I was comfortable with it."

LiLo threw light upon the Truth by comparing Monroe's death with

Heath Ledger

's: "They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone." Call her Blue

Doylestown's first daughter,

Pink

(

Alecia Moore

), and her husband, motocross racer

Carey Hart

, have agreed to call it quits after two years of marriage. (That's equivalent to 12 years of wedded bliss in normal-people time.)

"This decision was made by best friends with a huge amount of love and respect for one another," Pink's rep yesterday said. "While the marriage is over, their friendship has never been stronger."

Carey, who often sports a (very silly looking) little soul patch, met Pink at the 2001 X Games in Vegas. The couple wed Jan. 7, 2006, in Costa Rica.

A complex day in BritneyLand yesterday, which had the major players face off in court before Superior Court Commissioner

Scott Gordon

to sort out the ongoing custody dispute between

Britney Spears

and

Kevin Federline

.

Here are some highlights from the day:

Gordon denied a request by Brit's people to issue a gag order in the case. Gordon disputed Brit's attorney's claim that media coverage was "emotionally and physically" dangerous to Spears.

TMZ says lawyers on both sides agree in spirit that Brit, who has not seen her sons

Sean Preston

, 2, and

Jayden James

, 1, for six weeks, should have visitation rights. But they could not reach a concrete agreement on all the details. They'll try again today.

The sixth season of ABC's

Dancing With the Stars

, which is set to begin March 17, will feature a dozen new celebs and pseudo-celebs including

Priscilla Presley

, R&B singer

Mario

, magician

Penn Jillette

, Olympic gold medal figure skater

Kristi Yamaguchi

, tennis great

Monica Seles

, thesps

Marlee Matlin

and

Shannon Elizabeth,

and Miami Dolphins star

Jason Taylor

.

Ex-con

Martha Stewart

's corporate juggernaut, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., has kicked it up another notch, as it were, by buying the rights to the

Emeril Lagasse

franchise of cookbooks, television shows and kitchen products. And she got it for a song: $45 mil in cash and $5 mil in stock at closing. Don't worry, Emeril will still feed you: Martha did not buy Emeril's 11 restaurants. And Emeril will continue to host his cooking shows on the Food Network.

British actor

Sean Bean

(

Lord of the Rings

), who last month called off his wedding to

Georgina Sutcliffe

just 24 hours before the ceremony, made up for it yesterday by finally marrying the 29-year-old actress at a low-key ceremony in London attended by 15 guests.

Bean, 48, who has already worked through three previous wives, has three daughters,

Lorna

20,

Molly

17 and

Evie

, 9.

CBS3 is bringing home two reporters, both of whom were interns: Ambler's

Elizabeth Hur

(Upper Dublin High 1998), last at New York's WCBS after a stint as

Larry Kane's

intern, starts this week. She was a kid when her family emigrated from South Korea; her parents own Royal Cards & Gifts at Broad Street and Olney Avenue. Spring City's

Ben Simmoneau

(Spring-Ford High 1999) starts April 16. He's worked since 2003 at Lancaster's WGAL, where he won two Mid-Atlantic Emmys and a regional

Edward R. Murrow

award for investigative work.

- Michael Klein

Panic in the streets of London following a report by Brit tabloid the Daily Mail that on a recent night out,

Kate Moss

"revealed a pair of unsightly knobbly knees." Such knees, the Mail suggests, are "not often associated with a world-class beauty." Kate is not alone. The tab says

Angelina Jolie

and

Victoria Beckham

also have "severely bony knees on ultra-slim physiques." Time to open a U.K. chapter of KKA (Knobbly Knees Anonymous).

Hayden Christensen

tells Details mag that even though he thanks

George Lucas

for turbocharging his career by casting him in the

Star Wars

franchise, he's not very keen to do any more movies of that ilk. They are, after all, not art. "It wasn't necessarily anything you could feel good about creatively," he says of Lucas' films. "It's not why you become an actor, to do stuff like that."

WXPN (88.5-FM) DJ

David Dye

will pay homage to

Mike Doughty

's single "27 Jennifers" by playing 27 songs about girls named

Jennifer

today from 2 to 4 p.m. on

World Cafe Live.

Doughty is scheduled to perform live on tomorrow's edition of the show.