Tattle | Comic Eddie Griffin totals $1.5M Ferrari, maybe

WHILE TAKING practice laps Monday for a charity race to promote his upcoming film "Redline,"

Eddie Griffin

(the comic, not the ex-Roman Catholic hoops star) took a curve at the Irwindale Speedway too quickly and crashed into a concrete barrier.

Griffin was unhurt.

The car was totaled.

And we're not talking some off-the-lot clunker.

Griffin's smack-up ruined a Ferrari Enzo worth $1.5 million.

(You know, Eddie, when Tattle needs new wheels, we always check out phillycars.com.)

"Undercover Brother's good at karate and all the rest of that, but the Brother can't drive," Griffin joked, referring to his 2002 movie.

The film's publicist, Wendy Zocks, said Griffin "Walked away completely unscratched, but probably a little shaken."

The Enzo is owned by "Redline" exec producer Daniel Sadek, whose fancy car collection is featured in "Redline."

"I'm glad Eddie came out of the crash OK, but my dream car got destroyed," Sadek said. "I went to my trailer for about 15 minutes and I thought,'There's people dying every day. A lot of worse things are happening in the world.' "

Hey, if you can afford to have a car worth $1.5 million, you can afford to lose a car worth $1.5 million.

But did Sadek really lose anything or was this merely a case of "Redline" guerrilla marketing to the YouTube generation?

According to TMZ.com, L.A.'s CBS2 News got footage of the smack-up, which made its way around TV and the Internet faster than you could say "Anna Nicole's autopsy results are in." In the video, TMZ points out that a man standing yards away from the impact doesn't move a muscle as the car comes speeding toward him.

Odd behavior. Odd footage. Anyone detect the odor of fish?

See the video and decide for yourself at TMZ.com.

Yo, networks, what the Falk?

If the TV powers have their way, it looks as if there won't be another "Just one more thing."

David Walstad in the New York Daily News reports that the producers of "Columbo" (created by Philadelphians/Penn grads William Link and the late Richard Levinson) can't get a final mystery movie off the ground because no one is interested in backing veteran actor Peter Falk.

"Peter approved a final script some time ago. It's called 'Columbo: Hear No Evil,' " said Charles Engel, a big shot at NBC Universal. "It took a while to find the right one and for Peter to give it the OK. Now we're anxious to film it, but ABC has passed. No one wants to buy a movie with an 80-year-old lead."

"We've tried to sell it to the networks," said Angela Bromstad, president of NBC Universal Television Studio. "Didn't happen. I then offered 'Columbo: Hear No Evil' to USA, but they wouldn't buy it."

And they're the same company.

Falk starred as Columbo in 1968's "Prescription: Murder" so some Scrooge-like network should get behind a 40th anniversary of the rumpled detective.

And here's how to do it: Bring back the talent behind 1971's "Columbo: Murder by the Book." That entry in the series was written by a young Steven Bochco ("Hill Street Blues," "NYPD Blue") and directed by a just-starting-out Steven Spielberg.

Tattbits

* The upcoming Star reports Kevin

Costner, 52, and wife Christine Baumgartner, 33, are having a boy! Christine wants to name him Crash (after "BullDurham's" Crash Davis). Kevin wants to call him Henry (after someone named Henry).

It will be the couple's first child together. Kevin has four kids from previous relationships.

* While Britain's News of the World is

reporting that Lindsay Lohan has hooked up with whiny pop star James Blunt, the Star is saying Lindsay has coupled up with Jude Law.

Another day, another conquest.

"It's been going on for a few weeks," an anonymous Lindsay source tells the Star. "She thinks he's hot. She likes him."

Adds another source, Jude, "is cute, funny - and he's Jude Law!"

He's also a father of three, Auntie Lindsay.

Lohan has been telling friends she is "taking things slowly."

So no sex in the relationship's first 10 minutes.

* A trio of gal pals like Courteney Cox

Arquette, Jennifer Aniston and Sheryl Crow may seem to have the world on a string, but the Star says Jen's and Sheryl's constant negativity is hurting the Arquette marriage.

"Some people think [Courteney's girlfriends] have it all," said a source, "but they are a 'glass half-empty' bunch. They're down on love, and they seem to complain a lot."

Think "Friends" with all the characters named Ross.

* TMZ.com reports Paris Hilton may

have a new boyfriend - "Desperate Housewives'" Josh Henderson.

Josh, your fame clock is now ticking - 4:59, 4:58, 4:57 . . .

* A group of Martha Stewart's neigh-

bors are opposing her efforts to trademark the name of her tony hometown, Katonah.

The Katonah Village Improvement Society voted Monday to take whatever action it deems necessary to keep Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia from using the Katonah name for lines of furniture, paints and other homemaking products.

The society's vote allows the trademark committee to file formal opposition to Stewart's plans, and it authorized spending $200 toward legal costs.

Two hundred whole dollars? Better be a lawyer who can win the case in less than 30 minutes.

* "Extra" reported yesterday that

Wynonna Judd filed for divorce from her estranged husband Dan R. Roach, following Roach's arrest for sexual assault against a minor.

Those country songs just write themselves. *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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