Hannah makes splash at mine

Daryl Hannah ("Roxanne"), NASA scientist James Hansen and more than two dozen other mountaintop-removal-mining opponents were arrested yesterday during a protest in southern West Virginia.

State police said about 30 people were charged after they sat on the road and blocked a coal-processing plant in Raleigh County.

They were among several hundred protesters who rallied outside an elementary school that sits about 300 feet from the plant's coal-storage silo.

So that's why the blackboard's black.

You light up my cell

Joseph Brooks, 71, the songwriter and director behind one of the most annoying songs/films of all time, "You Light Up My Life," has been indicted in New York on charges of raping or sexually assaulting women who answered audition ads on Craigslist.

He was arraigned yesterday.

Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau says nine of the 11 victims answered an ad seeking women for acting roles.

Brooks, however, allegedly had only one act in mind.

Catfight

GLAAD is mad at Perez Hilton.

And the gossip blogger is mad at GLAAD.

TMZ.com reports that the gay- and lesbian-rights organization asked Perez, a gay rights advocate and former GLAAD employee, for an apology after he called will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas a "faggot," before getting punched in the face Monday morning in Toronto.

Perez say GLAAD is piling on.

"I am saddened GLAAD chose to victimize me further by criticizing me for how I non-violently dealt with a very scary situation that, unfortunately, turned violent," he told TMZ.com.

"While I doubt I will get an apology from GLAAD, nor do I expect one, I would just hope people know how difficult it is to intellectualize a situation and think rationally when a thug disguised as a musician is screaming at your face and intimidating you. I am just very fortunate and grateful that nothing more serious happened to me."

* Hollyscoop.com, meanwhile

spoke with Fergie's mother, Terri Jackson, about the altercation.

"Thank God it wasn't Fergie," Terri said. "I think she could have taken him out."