People makes a Jew-diciously sexy choice

MAZEL TOV, Adam Levine.

Even though you're not religious or go to synagogue and weren't bar mitzvahed, you're still the first Jew to be named People's "Sexiest Man Alive."

After 28 years, it's now Jews: 1, African-Americans: 1 (congrats Denzel Washington, 17 years ago).

And what did you say, Adam, when CeeLo Green took your magazine and started mocking you? You said, at least in our reimagining of the story, "Let my People go."

Moving on.

So what does it mean to be the Sexiest Man Alive? How is such sexiness measured? Is there some kind of scale that weighs abs against pecs against dreamboat eyes to pick a winner?

Do tats help or hurt? (We're guessing, in Adam's case, they helped, since his arms are like a coloring book.) What about writing a gossip column for a daily Philadelphia newspaper? (That doesn't seem to help at all.)

Does wealth help? Uh, yeah.

Do only women (and gay men) get to vote?

Is it relevant how many women want to have sex with the sexiest man or is the "sexiest" moniker sort of divorced from actual sex?

In Adam's case, wouldn't "Prettiest Man Alive" be more fitting?

It's all so complicated.

"Voice" judge and Maroon 5 front man Adam, 34, engaged to Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo (she's kind of sexy), takes the "sexiest" crown from Channing Tatum (but only because Channing, who would kick Adam's skinny metrosexual behind, let him).

When we first heard about a possible sequel to "It's a Wonderful Life," we thought it was a joke and left it out of the column.

Paramount Pictures isn't sure it's a joke, so the studio is going all Mr. Potter on it, saying it wishes the idea had never been born.

A studio spokeswoman said yesterday that the studio would fight the proposed follow-up to the 1946 Frank Capra-Jimmy Stewart holiday classic.

Star Partners and Hummingbird Productions announced plans Monday to create a sequel, titled "It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story."

Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville-based Hummingbird, told Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter, Zuzu, in the original film.

"No project relating to 'It's A Wonderful Life' can proceed without a license from Paramount," the studio said in a statement. "To date, these individuals have not obtained any of the necessary rights, and we would take all appropriate steps to protect those rights."

While a lapsed copyright led TV stations in the 1970s, '80s and early '90s to repeatedly broadcast crappy prints of "It's a Wonderful Life," Paramount has controlled the rights for the past 14 years, after the studio acquired Republic Pictures as part of its acquisition of Spelling Entertainment. Paramount has since licensed "It's a Wonderful Life" to NBC, which airs it sparingly during the holiday season.

* Chris Brown is going back to rehab.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin has ordered Brown to serve three months in a residential treatment facility and to submit to drug testing. Yesterday, he also ordered Brown to perform at least 24 hours of community labor per week.

Brown has agreed to the terms.

* Miley Cyrus has shaved her . . . eyebrows.

When they grow back, she'll call them Mi-brows.

* Joe and Teresa Giudice ("The Real Housewives of New Jersey") pleaded not guilty yesterday in federal court in Newark to one count of bank fraud and one count of loan-application fraud.

Authorities allege that the couple prepared a mortgage loan application stating that Teresa worked as a real-estate agent and made $15,000 a month. In reality, authorities said she was not employed.

The charges each carry a maximum of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

* Life & Style reports that Lindsay Lohan has achondroplasiaphobia, according to an unnamed source.

OMG! Is it serious?

Heck, yeah. It's a fear of little people.

"In 2006, at the Chateau Marmont, she was with pals when two little people walked by and she started having a major anxiety attack!" the insider told L&S in the silliest LiLo story ever. "She hyperventilated. Someone had to give her an anti-anxiety pill to calm her down. She kept saying, 'I'm so scared of them!' "

Little People of America, a nonprofit organization that provides support and information to people of short stature, actually bothered to respond to the story.

"Lohan should treat her fear the same as she would a fear of any other protected minority population," the group said in a statement. "If that fails, she might find diversity training to be useful."

Tattle sort of thinks L&S needs to get over it's nolilostoryphobia.

* An In Touch magazine anonymous source says Kanye West "dropped over $20,000 on women's shoes" during a stop at Barneys New York in Beverly Hills.

"He could've bought them because he's starting a women's shoe line and he wants some ideas, but it seemed like he was buying them for Kim," the unnamed employee said.

Or he might just like the way he looks in heels.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.