Brian Littrell is the married Backstreet Boy,...

Brian Littrell is the married Backstreet Boy, and he thinks his bandmates should consider settling down to avoid the temptations of celebrity. Littrell told our colleague, Geoff Boucher, that the heartthrobs are eager to get back on the road after waiting more than a month while A.J. McLean, who’s 23, deals with a drinking problem.

There’s no better rehab than the love of a good woman, the 26-year-old Littrell says. “The good thing about Leighanne and I is we can always pack up and go home and be away from everything.” The couple celebrate their first anniversary Sept. 2.

“We’ve got the stability. Some of the guys in the group don’t. I long for them to have what I have,” Littrell said. “Life is too short to live a million miles an hour.”

The Littrells are launching a music label and production company called Brileigh (catchy, huh?). First up is a straight-to-video romantic comedy called “Olive Juice,” starring and co-produced by Leighanne.

The Backstreet Boys will play Milwaukee on Friday night, their first show since the July 9 announcement that McLean was entering rehab.

“I think the emotional health of the group is really on the up and up,” Littrell said before heading to a video shoot for the new single, “Drowning.” He added, “A.J. is doing fine .... The situation we’re in, you feel like you have life handed to you on a silver platter and you kind of miss the true meaning of what life is all about.”

Mob Scene

It ain’t the Bada Bing, but David Proval, who played the mobster whacked by Tony Soprano’s sister, Janice, was alive and well and ordering lunch at Chin-Chin the other day.

The restaurant is just down Sunset Boulevard from the Tiffany Theater, where the actor formerly known as Richie Aprile opens Sept. 15 in “Seltzer-Man.” Proval and his director, Lisa James, are Chin-Chin regulars. But we’re told that initially the waitresses pretended to be too scared to take the actor’s order, huddling in the back and giggling until their manager came to the rescue with a word-for-word reenactment of the Sopranos scene in which Richie gives mob boss Tony a leather jacket.

He Don’t Like Cocaine

Guitar god Eric Clapton recently drove Staples Center audience members into a frenzy with his Me Generation anthem, “Cocaine.” Off stage, however, Clapton is Mr. Intervention. We recently heard a story about how Clapton picked up a multi-platinum, Grammy-winning R&B; duo at LAX and tried to talk to them about the dangers of substance abuse as he drove them to their hotel. Clapton founded Crossroads, a rehabilitation center in Antigua three years ago.

Ambassador Jolie

Although she’s better known for her tattoos and wearing a vial of husband Billy Bob Thornton’s dried blood around her neck, Angelina Jolie has her diplomatic side. The actress will be named a United Nations celebrity ambassador during a ceremony Monday in Geneva.

Jolie, who visited Cambodian refugees after scenes for her film “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” were shot there, also has traveled, at the U.N.’s invitation, to refugee sites in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Tanzania.

“She is the kind of person who can get our message across to young people,” said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

Other celebrity ambassadors include Muhammad Ali, Michael Douglas, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and French soccer star Zinedine Zidane

Sightings

Matt Dillon, dining with a friend at Pane e Vino ... Elisabeth Shue, having dinner at Asia de Cuba ... Traci Lords, listening to former Meters guitarist Leo Nocentelli at The Knitting Factory ... Mike and Lou Conners , hosting their annual bash at Granita for friends Dick and Dolly Martin, Tom and Marla Rowan, Tim and Sharkey Conway, Barbara Sinatra, Richard and Penni Crenna, Merv and Thea Adelson, Bob and Ginny Newhart, Dick and Michelle Van Dyke, R.J. Wagner and Jill St. John, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gourmet, Larry and Pat Gelbart, Grant Tinker, and Angie Dickenson.

Quote, Unquote

The following blurbs recently were compiled by the New Republic from Larry King’s USA Today column. King has played himself in more than 20 films over a long, long time.

* “I have a cameo role in the movie ‘America’s Sweethearts,’ opening Friday. That said, it is one of the funniest comedies to come down the pike in years.” (July 16)

* “Put aside the fact that I make a cameo appearance in the film ‘Dave.’ Ivan Reitman’s latest ... is one of the funniest movies to come down the pike in a long, long time.” (April 26, 1993)

* “Even though I appear as myself in the coming film ‘Crazy People,’ you’ll have to take my objective view that it’s one of the funniest movies to come down the pike in a long, long time.”--March 19, 1990.

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Times staff writers Louise Roug and Gina Piccalo contributed to this column. City of Angles runs Tuesday through Friday. E-mail: angles@latimes.com.