Tattle: Miley would like to do a 'Sex and the City'

HOLLYWOOD'S a place where the overconfident survive. If you're simply confident, that'll be you parking my car. And maybe even overconfidence doesn't quite cut it anymore - super-hyper-ultra-confidence is what's required just to get work, let alone fame.

But in a town where a whole lot of people are full of themselves, Miley Cyrus's ego-gauge needle seems to be firmly stuck on F.

Granted, it wouldn't be normal if she didn't get a bit of a swelled head, what with all the attention and money that "Hannah Montana" has brought to her at such a young age. But, based on some comments she has made to TV Guide, this girl needs a whiplash collar just to keep her oversized head supported.

"A girl wouldn't be wearing a shirt with me on it just because she liked my show," Cyrus tells the magazine. "She must look up to me."

And, yet, this role model - who preaches chastity and purity - has appeared practically naked in several Internet-released photo sessions. And, she announces to TV Guide, "I'd love to do a younger, cleaner version of 'Sex and the City.' "

At age 15.

Would she be Carrie? Or Samantha? Is this sending mixed messages to her fan base, or what?

And then she credits her success to "a God that blesses me with the ability to do this."

What she seems like is a nice kid who needs some parental guidance and somebody to make sure she keeps her ambitions alive but her ego within measurable limits. And somebody who will remind her to enjoy it now and keep it real, because there's always another mildly talented photogenic yokel in the wings, with hyper-super-mega-ultra confidence and her eye on taking a self-reflecting Miley down . . . if she hasn't taken herself down already.

Hello, Dolly

"This isn't a show just for women or about women. It's about the workplace. It's an anti-authority piece. Anyone who's had . . . an errant boss can relate."

And who hasn't had one? Or all?

That quote came from Dolly Parton yesterday, during a news conference announcing that there's going to be a Broadway musical version of "9 to 5," the movie that she, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin starred in back in 1980. And Parton's written the musical score for the show, calling it "the most fun I've ever had as a songwriter."

Starring onstage in the role that Parton played in the movie is Allison Janney, best known as press secretary C. J. Cregg on "The West Wing." We're assuming that part of her costume will include appropriate Parton padding.

In the Fonda role will be Stephanie J. Block, and Megan Hilty takes the Tomlin part. Both performers appeared on Broadway in "Wicked." The piggish boss will be played by twice-Tony- nominated Mark Kudisch.

While the show will preview in L.A. in September, it will tour the country and then open in New York next April. No word yet on any Philadelphia dates.

Tattbits

_ Canadian band Rush, which hasn't performed on American TV since before the last gasoline crisis, will be stopping by Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" tonight. They're scheduled to play their "quintessential Rush song" (as band member Geddy Lee calls it), "Tom Sawyer."

_ Farm Aid, which has been raising money for U.S. farmers since 1985 (more than $30 million so far), will be held again this year, but in New England for the first time, announced concert co-founder John Cougar Mellencamp yesterday. Site is in Mansfield, Mass., date is Sept. 20, and the bill will include Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, and others to be announced.

_ Once the supreme label for hip-hop - with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur in the fold - Marion "Suge" Knight's bankrupt and mismanaged Death Row records has been auctioned off for $24 million. The key here for the new owners is the label's back catalog and, according to reports, unreleased Tupac material that could be fashioned into a new album.

_ When asked how he felt about his daughter Angelina Jolie giving birth to twins, Jon Voight said he was as "excited as everybody else." Let's hope more so.

_ Signs of cracks and potential settlement in the tense Screen Actors Guild/movie producers labor talks? SAG wants more; the producers group, AMPTP, says they won't budge. Yet, they've agreed to hold a meeting today, perhaps for SAG to end the negotiations, or to throw Hollywood into another messy strike. The statement from the producers was terse and chilly: "Out of respect for the SAG membership, the AMPTP has agreed to the meeting but has made it clear that the meeting will be solely for the purpose of listening to whatever SAG has to say. It is important to note that SAG has declined to specify the purpose of the meeting, and that AMPTP continues to call on SAG's Hollywood leaders to accept AMPTP's final offer."

_ Hoping to honor rocker Elton John before his first-ever Vermont performance, Burlington-based Ben & Jerry's has come up with a new flavor: "Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road." The company calls the limited-batch dessert "an outrageous symphony of decadent chocolate ice cream, peanut butter cookie dough, butter brickle and white chocolate chunks." If you want a taste, you'll have to line up at a Vermont Ben & Jerry's scoop shop sometime between July 18 and 25. Proceeds go to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.*

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.