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Tattle: Dead these 10 years, Sinatra makes a big comeback

TATTLE DOESN'T usually give much space to DVD releases, but this is Frank Sinatra, so the usual just doesn't cut it.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of the Chairman of the Board tomorrow, Warner Bros. is releasing 22 Frank films in five DVD sets.

There's junk like "The Kissing Bandit," cornball schlock like "The Tender Trap," interesting fare like the Otto Preminger-directed "The Man With the Golden Arm" and the Vincente Minnelli-directed "Some Came Running," with Dean Martin. Unfortunately, Sinatra's best films, "From Here to Eternity" and "The Manchurian Candidate," are not part of the packages.

If you can only buy one of the new sets, we recommend "The Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly Collection," featuring "On the Town," "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" and "Anchors Aweigh."

Tattbits

* A judge in London granted a preliminary divorce yesterday to Paul McCartney and Heather Mills - and isn't it about time.

If no one objects - and no one better object - the divorce will be final in six weeks.

Heather will receive a settlement of $47.5 million and the enmity of an entire generation.

Neither McCartney nor Mills was in court yesterday, which might have been a good thing. At the end of a hearing in March, Mills emptied a pitcher of water on the head of McCartney's lawyer, Fiona Shackleton.

"Mrs. Shackleton said something under her breath so I cleansed and baptized her," Mills said afterward. "I thought she looked fantastic - I thought it did her the world of good."

Mills will retain custody of the couple's 4-year-old daughter, Beatrice. McCartney will retain the bulk of his fortune, estimated by the court at $880 million.

He'd probably rather have Bea.

* The Hollywood Reporter says that Natalie Portman has pulled out of John Maybury's adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" just days before the film was to be pre-sold to world markets at the Cannes Film Festival.

Portman was to play the female lead, Catherine Earnshaw.

* Audrina Patridge, of "The Hills," is making the leap to movies, implying there are still a few ticks left in her 15 minutes.

The Hollywood Reporter says that she's joining the cast of "Into the Blue 2."

Patridge will play a spoiled beach babe, so it won't even be like acting.

_ Creator/writer David E. Kelley must still have issues, and actor James Spader must still have a few long speeches in him.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that "Boston Legal" will return next season.

_ Billboard.

com reports that Jack Black and Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo will team for a cover of that old Carl Douglas chestnut, "Kung Fu Fighting."

The song will appear on the soundtrack for the animated "Kung Fu Panda" (opening June 6), featuring the voices of Black, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman.

* In Draft magazine, which is about beer and not the military's needs for Iraq, "Damages" star Tate Donovan talks about why he likes to drink beer at his pal George Clooney's house.

A lifetime supply of Guinness.

It's "one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen in my entire life," Donovan says. "He has his own draft spigot installed in his house and Guinness has given him a lifetime supply. So whenever I head over there, I sneak off and pour myself one."*

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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