If only online.

At 2 p.m. today, WB.com is scheduled to launch with a mix of old and new programming that includes favorites from the old WB - early episodes of "Everwood," "Gilmore Girls," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," "Roswell" and "Smallville" - as well as some shows you might not expect, such as NBC's "Friends," UPN's "Veronica Mars," Fox's "The O.C." and "Firefly," the short-lived cult fave from "Buffy" creator Joss Whedon (with episodes presented in the order he'd intended).

There's an Australian series, "Blue Water High," a quirky little set of instructional webisodes called "A Boy Wearing Makeup," and, coming Sept. 8, a Web-only series from "The O.C.'s" McG called "Sorority Forever."

For those not content to merely watch - presumably that includes most of the WB.com's target audience - there's the inevitable Facebook component, as well as something called wBlender, where users can remix shows, combining scenes and adding music and effects.

"And, no, we're not going to come after you and ask you to take it off your Facebook or MySpace page," promises site GM Brent Poer.

On my wish list? A button fans of "Veronica Mars" and "Everwood" can press to order more.

Some like it busy

Though the lineup includes some films Curtis said he hopes he'll be remembered for, including "The Vikings" (8:45 a.m.), "Some Like It Hot" (8 p.m.), "Sweet Smell of Success" (10:15 p.m.) and "The Defiant Ones" (midnight), a day only scratches the surface.

"In 55 years, I made 147 movies. That's a lot of movies," said Curtis during a party in Beverly Hills, Calif., last month.

Does he remember them all?

"I can when I see them," said the 83-year-old actor, who uses a wheelchair these days.

"I'd make three, four pictures a year. Lew Wasserman, who was my agent, said, 'Tony, if you want to be an international player, you've got to make movies that'll get everywhere . . . The way to do it is three pictures a year.' I never forgot that he told me that, and I went ahead and did three, four pictures a year.

"Never lifted my head, just one picture, next picture. I did that for 10 years, and at the end of the 10 years, I was a player all over the place," he said.

Actors today "get stuck in some series, playing a certain type, and if they're doing that two years later, they haven't had a chance to try different things. And if you go from picture to picture, you're almost forced to do that," he said.

Playing different roles, "you had to become very open in your brain, in your thinking, so there was nothing in your sense of who you are that you objected to . . . I'm sitting here talking to you, and if I saw little slivers of my movies, I would remember that I was a hairdresser, a boxer, a female impersonator, a Viking, a trapeze artist," he said.

"I had to mentally psych myself, so that when I put on those clothes, that wardrobe, I believed it, and everybody else started to believe it."

Curtis, whose chief interest these days is painting, not acting, has a memoir, "The American Prince," coming out in October.

He didn't choose the title, but likes it.

"Better than 'The American Princess.' "*

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