NEWS LITE : BOGEYMAN STEALS PRO'S GOLF CLUBS.

The Shark has fallen prey to a thief.

Someone made off with two sets of custom golf clubs Saturday from the garage of golfer Greg Norman at his home on exclusive Jupiter Island, Fla., police said.

Norman said the clubs, engraved with his name, ``mean a lot to me, but I doubt they would have any value to anyone else, since who in their right mind could ever market them as my stolen golf clubs?''

Norman is nicknamed the Shark because of his passion for hunting the predator.

Actor adding body to household voice

Dan Castellaneta has one of television's most recognizable voices. His face is a different matter.

Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson on ``The Simpsons,'' says he ``was never able to develop a persona as an actor.''

All that could change.

The 41-year-old actor is taking his rarely seen face to the stage at Los Angeles' Acme Theater, where he will appear Wednesday nights through July 28.

The actor will play about 20 characters - such as a ventriloquist's dummy and a Billie Holiday impersonator - in a 90-minute, one-man show he wrote. It is titled ``Where Did Vincent Van Gogh?''

Rocker's divorce proceedings to start

Preliminary proceedings in the divorce of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall will begin this week.

Jagger's lawyers are contesting her divorce petition on grounds the couple never were officially married.

In a statement confirming Friday's court date, his representatives said Tuesday that they expect the judge won't rule on the validity of the marriage, ``but will merely make directions as to the future progress of the case.''

Neither Jagger nor Hall is expected to be in court.

Jagger, 55, and Hall, 43, have been together for 21 years and have four children. The wedding ceremony didn't take place until 1990.

Hall filed for divorce after a Brazilian model claimed she was pregnant after a fling with Jagger.

SNL player shuns career in politics

Seriously, folks, comedian Chris Rock says he has no interest in politics, despite urgings from the Rev. Jesse Jackson that he become more involved.

``I'm in show business,'' Rock says in a TV Guide interview. ``I wanna hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.''

Rock also reflects on the deaths of comedians Chris Farley and Phil Hartman, whom he worked with on ``Saturday Night Live,'' calling them victims of ``the comedian curse.''

``We're performers - a bunch of geeks no one liked,'' he says. ``Now, people finally like us, and we're willing to put up with a tremendous amount . . . and make ourselves miserable, to maintain it. Then, you know, we explode. Our wives shoot us, we OD or whatever.

Charge! Bulls, brave to meet in Pamplona

Corks popped from bottles of champagne and rockets burst at noon sharp Tuesday, signaling the start of the San Fermin Fiesta, the bull-running event popularized worldwide by Ernest Hemingway's novel ``The Sun Also Rises.''

Mayor Yolanda Barcina shouted, ``Viva San Fermin!'' and, in the regional Basque language, ``Gora San Fermin!'' as she lit the wick on the first rocket fired from a balcony of the town hall.

The ceremony, known as the ``Chupinazo,'' or the first firework, marked the beginning of the traditional 8-1/2-day party that will end at midnight July 14. An estimated 10,000 Americans will be among the crowds.

In the plaza below, tens of thousands of people - mostly young and many a bit drunk - waited for the rocket blast, waving red kerchiefs and dousing others with sparkling wine, eggs and flour.

The northern city of 180,000 residents is expected to draw at least as many visitors during the week for its famous running of the bulls.

This morning, Pamplona was to hold the first of eight daily bull runs in which thousands of runners, dressed in traditional white shirts and trousers with red kerchiefs and sashes, race down cobblestone streets with six fighting bulls and a herd of steers.

The half-mile stampede from the corral to the bullring takes about three minutes, with the bulls scattering and sometimes goring runners along the way. The bulls face certain death in the afternoon bullfights.

The fiesta has an ancient history and was first recorded in chronicles from the 13th and 14th centuries, but only became an international celebration after Hemingway wrote about it in his 1926 novel.

Large crowds now have made the runs extremely dangerous. Since record keeping began in 1924, 13 runners have been killed and more than 200 injured by the bulls. The last fatality was an American in 1995, the first death since 1980.

Dutch diner's 20-year scam lands him in the slammerdlim

For nearly 20 years, he feasted for free. Now the man the Dutch have dubbed the ``dinner pirate'' will have to make do with jailhouse grub for the next three months.

A judge in the northern city of Leeuwarden ordered the felon diner to serve a three-month jail term Monday after he confessed to ordering meals and wine at restaurants around the Netherlands, only to plead poverty when the bill came. The man was identified only as Albert B., as per custom in Dutch courts.

Police said the 54-year-old former tour bus driver with a taste for Chinese and Indian cuisine began his caper in the early 1980s, and now has a police file 33 pages thick. He was arrested after visiting the same restaurant twice within two weeks.

News Lite is compiled by Tim Epperson from Daily News staff and wire reports

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Dave Bernier of South Hadley, Mass., finds a creative way to beat the heat in the water-filled bed of his Ford pickup truck as temperatures in the area soared well into the 90s.

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