Tattle: Does shot of Miley Cyrus qualify as kiddie-porn?

"IM NOT TRYING to be 'slutty,' " Miley Cyrus said in a recent interview.

So? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar isn't trying to be tall.

Doesn't make him short.

"I'm not trying to be like, go to the club and get a bunch of guys," Miley added. "What I'm trying to do is to make a point with my record and look consistent, in the way my record sounds and the way I dress."

And that would be . . . ? Not slutty?

For many who still want to think of Miley as "Hannah Montana," her "sexy" new look and her provocative video for her new single "Can't Be Tamed," are jarring, controversial and skin-baring.

"I'm really comfortable with my body," Miley went on. "I work really hard to be fit and to know that I can wear whatever makes me most comfortable. I feel more comfortable dressing with a little less, which is just how I've always been," she said.

Miley admits to being partial to shorts and hot pants. But she sees nothing wrong with flashing her legs.

Or flashing something more?

What seemed to make Miley most comfortable one recent night was the short skirt/no undies look, which inevitably led to her inability to get out of a car without snatching embarrassment from the jaws of dignity. One of the requisite crotcharazzi photos ended up on Perez Hilton's Twitter feed and has been causing discomfort for the celebrity blogger. Miley, we all know, is 17.

In some places, exposing a 17-year-old's genitals is the type of crime that gets you 15 years in prison and placed on a watch list.

Perez took the photo down shortly after it was posted, and he and Miley may both argue that the photo had Miley's panties photoshopped right off her - but the damage has been done.

Thus we may soon have a new precedent-breaking case in Twitter Kiddie Porn. Will Perez be jailed for disseminating the photo? What about the paparazzo who shot it? And what about Miley? Obviously she knew that she was traveling commando.

"When you're 11, the word you would use to describe someone is definitely not sexy, and as you get older I think you grow into that," Miley said in the recent interview. "And I think I've done that but that's not my shtick. That's not what I'm trying to do to sell records. I want people to buy my record because of my music."

Yup. It's all about the music. That's why a few days before your new album drops, a photo appears of you unveiling your music box.

Coincidence? We think not.

Tattbits

* Video-game developer Ubisoft

announced Monday it would release a dancing-and-singing game featuring Michael Jackson this holiday season. The game will be among the first to use Kinect [see Page 36] and Move, the respective motion-detecting camera systems for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 due out later this year.

"Your goal is to dance like Michael," said Tony Key, Ubisoft's marketing VP. "Do what the guy on the screen is doing and you're there. It'll score you based on the quality of your performance."

You may want to skip the part of the game with the IV drip.

* HBO has aggressively sought to get its documentary on Iranian dissident Neda Agha- Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as the anniversary of her death during anti-government demonstrations approaches.

The film, "For Neda," was shown online and through Voice of America in Iran even before its debut here this week. That's an unusual step for a pay cable network that traditionally tries to keep its material exclusive for its customers.

Somehow we think more HBO subscribers were waiting for the premiere of "True Blood" than the dissident documentary.

The 27-year-old Iranian music student was shot in the heart last June 20 during a Tehran protest. Fellow demonstrators used their cell hpones to record images of her dying, and she quickly became a symbol for the crushed movement to protest Iran's questionable election results.

* For the second time in five months,

a Mercedes-Benz owned by Charlie Sheen was stolen and sent off a cliff at Mulholland Drive, authorities said yesterday.

Firefighters responding to a report of a traffic accident found the silver Mercedes S600 about 100 feet down a brushy ravine about 3 a.m., Fire Department spokesman Eric Scott said.

Nobody was in the car. However, the car was running and had its lights on.

* California painter Thomas

Kinkade has had a brush with the law.

Kinkade, whose paintings of light are so popular in shopping malls, spent Friday night in jail after being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

California Highway Patrol officials said Monday that he was pulled over outside Carmel and arrested by a CHP officer just after 10 p.m.

* It's not only celebs who say and do stupid things.

In London, cystic fibrosis sufferer Lyndsey Scott received a double lung transplant in February 2009. Sadly, she died a few months later of pneumonia.

Now her family has lodged a complaint with whomever one complains to about such things, after finding out that the donor of Lyndsey's new lungs had been a smoker for thirty years.

Thirty.

Britain's top transplant official, Chris Rudge, defended the decision and said patients should be told they are not getting a "brand new" organ.

They should be told that? Isn't the fact that their "new" organ is coming from someone recently deceased telling enough?

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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