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Tattbits

* It shouldn't come as a much of a surprise, but the new "American Idol" has a record deal.

Billboard.com reports that Kris Allen has signed with 19 Recordings/Jive Records. His debut album is slated for fall.

* One thing that Jive should be happy about regarding Allen:

He's not Pete Doherty.

The British druggie rocker was fined by Swiss police for heroin use on a flight from London, a police spokesman said yesterday.

Geneva Convention? Try Geneva Detention.

Doherty was picked up by officers after his flight landed Friday, was held for two hours, paid a fine and was released.

What made police suspect Pete? Swiss newspaper Le Matin reported that he was discovered by a flight attendant collapsed in a toilet, near a used syringe.

* Thai police said yesterday that they would welcome FBI assistance in investigating the death of David Carradine, but only as observers.

What? They're different.

Tattle, for instance, could observe a goal in the Stanley Cup Finals without assisting on it.

* Football is not only king in Alabama, it's Shakespeare.

Officials with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival said yesterday that they will stage "Bear Country," a play about legendary Crimson Tide football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, from Aug. 6-20 at the Virginia Samford Theatre near where a statue of Bryant stands outside the main entrance of Legion Field.

Written by ASF's Michael Vigilant, the play has been a bright spot for ASF, which has struggled to fill seats during the recession. And to add a little nostalgia, the performances are being sponsored by Coca-Cola and Golden Flake, which also sponsored Bryant's popular Sunday afternoon TV shows.

Rodney Clark will play the adult Bryant. Clark said that the atmosphere during the play's run in Montgomery often resembled a football Saturday outside a stadium rather than a theater.

"We had people tailgating," Clark said. "For a theater to have people tailgating, that's a dream."