Quick Takes: KRLA lands Glenn Beck’s show

Glenn Beck’s radio show has signed up its 400th outlet, L.A.’s KRLA-AM (870). The conservative firebrand will be heard from 6 to 9 a.m. starting July 6.

“I have been doing radio since I was 13 years old, so this milestone is particularly meaningful to me,” Beck said in a statement. “I am glad to join KRLA and look forward to continuing to grow our show as we bring the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment to millions of listeners every day.” “The Glenn Beck Program” started on 47 stations in 2002.

—Mike Boehm

Kidman to play Hemingway wife

Nicole Kidman is back on the biopic beat, set to play Martha Gellhorn, the war correspondent and third wife to Ernest Hemingway, in an HBO original movie, “Hemingway & Gellhorn.”

Clive Owen plays novelist Hemingway, and James Gandolfini, who has nurtured the project for six years, will produce. Filming is set for next year in Northern California, with Philip Kaufman (“Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “Quills”) directing.

Playing Gellhorn will add to a Kidman collection of historical characters that includes an Oscar-winning turn as Virginia Woolf in “The Hours” (2002) and photographer Diane Arbus in “Fur” (2006).

Now on the back-burner: Brit-soul singer Dusty Springfield, whom Kidman plans to play in a biopic her representatives say is “on hold for now.”

—Hailey Eber

Chris Klein gets DUI charge

Actor Chris Klein was arrested early Wednesday in Los Angeles on suspicion of drunk driving. Klein, 31, best known for his role in the “American Pie” comedies, was taken into custody about 3:15 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol; officers reported pulling Klein over after they spotted his black 1999 Chevrolet Blazer weaving across three lanes of traffic on the westbound 101 Freeway at Woodman Avenue.

The actor was booked at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Van Nuys station for driving under the influence of alcohol and released without bail.

Klein was fined $1,800 and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service in 2005 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor drunk driving charge in northern San Diego County. He got his break in 1999’s “Election” and later played the character Oz in the “American Pie” comedies.

His onetime relationship with actress Katie Holmes was frequent tabloid fodder.

—Kate Linthicum

Artist Kinkade

is arrested

Another celebrity DUI suspect nabbed by the CHP is Thomas Kinkade, whose mass-produced landscapes have made him one of the most-collected artists in America.

Kinkade, 52, was pulled over outside Carmel on Friday night because his 2006 Mercedes-Benz didn’t have a front license plate.

The artist smelled of alcohol, said California Highway Patrol Officer Robert Lehman. He was arrested after he failed a field sobriety test. Kinkade was released from jail the next day after posting bail.

Kinkade’s arrest came less than two weeks after one of his companies filed for bankruptcy protection. The Chapter 11 petition was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Jose in the name of Kinkade’s production company, Pacific Metro of Morgan Hill, Calif.

The artist’s incandescent, spiritually infused paintings of Americana have been praised as inspirational by some and dismissed as kitsch by art critics.

—Kate Linthicum

Out of Miami, out of trouble

Prosecutors won’t file charges against Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola, a cast member of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” who had been accused of punching another woman in the face at a South Beach nightclub.

Officials in Miami-Dade County say a case of battery may have occurred on May 8, but it’s not their policy to file misdemeanor charges against those no longer in the county.

Giancola has since returned to New York.

Prosecutors could reopen the closed case if Giancola returns to the Miami area, but her lawyer, calling the accusation “a feeble attempt to get publicity,” said she doesn’t intend to return to Florida.

— Associated Press

Ballerina is mugged in N.Y.

New York City police say muggers punched a Russian ballerina in the face and took her pointe shoes while she was returning home from a performance with the American Ballet Theatre.

Natalia Osipova was walking on Manhattan’s Upper West Side around midnight Tuesday when she was attacked by two men. They stole her bag, which contained the dance shoes valued at about $100.

Osipova, 24, is a star of the Bolshoi Ballet but currently is in guest appearances with ABT.

She is scheduled to perform Saturday in “Sleeping Beauty,” and debut as Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” on July 10.

— Associated Press