Cruisin' wit Grant, Sinatra

Tom Cruise was in New York this week to do something besides promote "Rock of Ages."

He received the fourth-ever Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award, placing him in the same company as Douglas Fairbanks, Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra — so the Friars don't give them out to often.

Best of all, Tom didn't have to listen to a bunch of old Catskill comics make fun of him. The evening was all about how great Cruise is. Alec Baldwin presided at the Waldorf-Astoria, where speakers included such former co-stars as Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kevin Pollak. Robin Thicke and Corinne Rae Bailey were among the musical performers.

Cruise said during his acceptance speech that wife, Katie Holmes, was out of the country, so 6-year-old daughter, Suri, was his date.

Suri not only got to stay up late she got to take in a little blue humor. And numerous plugs were worked in for "Rock of Ages," coming out Friday.

In sort of related news, Jerry Lewis, 86, had a health scare Tuesday night just before he was scheduled to receive one award and present Cruise his Friars Icon prize.

Lewis publicist Candi Cazau in Las Vegas says colleagues have told her Lewis is fine. She says he is very busy and simply forgot to eat or drink and his blood sugar level took a dive.

She says she doesn't know if he collapsed, but he became weak and was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

Besides the Friars event, Cazau says Lewis is beginning three weeks of directing rehearsals for a new musical based on his 1963 film "The Nutty Professor."

Another show is biting the dust at CNN.

The cable news network is canceling John King's evening news show, "JK USA," making him the first victim of the network's bad stretch in the ratings.

In fairness, it's been awhile since CNN has had good ratings.

"JK USA" has aired at 6 p.m. since 2010. CNN said that Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room" would expand to three hours, and King will become the network's lead national campaign correspondent.

And Erin Burnett's flirty banter will have to carry the day.

Lucy Lawless has pleaded guilty to trespass after she and other activists protested aboard an oil-drilling ship docked in New Zealand.

She is due to be sentenced in September and faces a maximum three years in jail. Prosecutors reduced a more serious charge of burglary.

In February, the former Xena: Warrior Princess and five other Greenpeace environmental activists spent four days perched atop a 174-foot drilling tower in Port Taranaki in a protest against Arctic oil exploration. Eight activists pleaded guilty Thursday at the Auckland District Court.

Country music star Jason Aldean has been fined for swimming in dangerous conditions at a Florida Panhandle beach.

Authorities say Aldean was among 19 people cited for taking a dip in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday.

The Northwest Florida Daily News reports that double red flags had been up since Saturday because of dangerous rip currents. Lifeguards had ordered everyone to stay out of the water.

Aldean tweeted his displeasure over the $100 fine: "Dear officer who gave me a ticket on the beach today for swimming in the water with double red flags. Thanx for the warning Barney Fife!"

Responding to negative feedback, Aldean tweeted that he was only joking.

Sure, it's all fun and games until the Coast Guard has to spend tens of thousands of dollars looking for you at sea, because you thought "Barney Fife" was going all nanny state on you about the tide.