William's office, St. James's Palace, declined to comment on the song and said arrangements for any parties would be private.
The sun of man
The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI would gladly use a solar popemobile as another sign of his efforts to promote sustainable energy, but one has yet to be offered.
Offered? The pope's got enough dough to commission a car. He doesn't have to wait for an end-of-year sale.
The German firm SolarWorld said yesterday that it has discussed the idea of providing the pope with a sun-powered electric car.
SolarWorld marketing chief Milan Nitzschke said the main hurdle is to get Vatican security to sign off on it, since some still have concerns - unfounded, he said - that electric cars don't accelerate as quickly as gas-guzzling, bulletproof limos.
"It's really no problem," he said, noting that electric cars can go from 0-100 kph in three seconds.
If they're really concerned, they should ask the teenagers from the West Philadelphia High School Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering to build it.
Tattbits
* The late Heath Ledger will not appear in "The Dark Knight Rises," according to director Christopher Nolan and his wife/producing partner, Emma Thomas.
At an awards-season party Tuesday for "Inception," the Hollywood Reporter asked the filmmakers about a report on a New Zealand website saying that Nolan and Warner Bros. were thinking of inserting unused footage of Ledger's Joker into the movie.
"I heard the rumor," Thomas said. "We're not doing that."
Now if they could get unused footage of Victor Buono as King Tut, Otto Preminger as Mr. Freeze or Vincent Price as Egghead . . .
* Wesley Snipes was ordered yesterday to voluntarily surrender at a federal prison next week to start his three-year sentence for failing to pay taxes.
