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Frank Sinatra's daughters hate the upcoming HBO movie ``The Rat Pack.''

Starring Ray Liotta as Sinatra, Joe Mantegna as Dean Martin and Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis Jr., the film doesn't do the legendary entertainers justice, according to Sinatra kin who have appealed to Ted Turner, vice chairman of Time Warner Inc.

``It's a blatant raping of not only what my dad did, but of all those other brilliant performers,'' Tina Sinatra says in the March 7 TV Guide. ``There's no regard for the truth. It turns them all into caricatures of themselves.''

The show, scheduled for late this year or early 1999, will apparently go on. But the family is refusing to allow the use of Sinatra's recordings.

Madonna sees 2nd baby in her future

Madonna doesn't want her baby daughter to be an only child.

``I would love to have a brother or sister for Lola,'' Madonna said. ``I don't know when, but it'll happen.''

Lola is Madonna's nickname for her 16-month-old daughter, Lourdes Maria, who the 39-year-old superstar says has made her life ``infinitely richer.''

``I feel like I'm starting my life all over in some ways,'' Madonna said. ``My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me.''

The Material Girl has a new album out, ``Ray of Light,'' but wants to limit touring so she can spend as much time with Lourdes as possible, saying motherhood brought emotional growth for the entertainer often criticized for being childish.

``I got to a point where I went, OK, I've been incredibly petulant, incredibly self-indulgent, incredibly naive,'' she said. ``But I needed to do all of those things to get where I am now, and where I am now I'm very happy with.

``I don't have any regrets.''

Streisand, Brolin's wedding in limbo

James Brolin and Barbra Streisand's wedding date is still up in the air.

``We're trying to find the right place, so the press won't be around,'' Streisand says in the March 9 issue of People magazine.

The press got in the way early last month in New York when Brolin got in a scuffle with a newspaper photographer outside a Manhattan theater. The shutterbug and the star of the TV series ``Pensacola: Wings of Gold'' both filed harassment complaints.

``The guy was blocking my path,'' says Brolin, 57. ``There was no deliberate contact. My only thought when we're out in public is making sure Barbra is protected.''

Streisand, 55, looks forward to being a bride.

``I've never had a big wedding,'' Streisand said. ``So sometimes I think about designing a beautiful wedding dress and the fantasy of a bouquet.''

Press corps gets to church on time

Diana Nelson, chief concierge at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco, pulled off a minor miracle on Ash Wednesday when she found a priest who would give after-hours ashes for Catholic members of the White House press corps. A frazzled reporter called Nelson at 6 p.m. and explained they all had been up since 5 a.m., with no time to go to church. Nelson called the Rev. Shea at Old St. Mary's, who opened the doors after hours and marked the foreheads of about 20 media members.

Visitors wait hours to see `Last Supper'

Visitors lined up for hours Sunday outside a Milan, Italy, church to see Leonardo da Vinci's ``The Last Supper'' as it was intended to be seen - without having to peer through scaffolding.

The public has been allowed in from time to time during the 20-year restoration process, but the late 15th-century painting finally could be viewed without scaffolding blocking part of it.

The painting, on the wall of a dining hall in a monastery adjacent to Santa Maria della Grazie church, has undergone 19 known restorations in four centuries. The latest one, begun in 1978, aimed to restore badly faded colors and undo some damage from previous restorations.

The painting is in tempera and so deteriorates more easily than true fresco painting, which is done on wet plaster.

Hundreds of people waited Sunday to get a look at the painting.

Officials were allowing groups of 20 to view it for 15 minutes at a time to limit the pollution that contributes to deterioration, Italian TV reports said. By next year, a reservation system is expected to be in place and shorten the wait.

In 1995, visitors began passing through two separate glass cabins. Between the cabins, filters imperceptibly remove impurities brought in from the outside, such as dust, and pump in clean air.

News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports

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Hundreds of New Yorkers watch inflatable versions of old-time comedy team Bud Abbott, right, and Lou Costello appear to pull the 7.4 million-pound Empire Theatre as engineers used hydraulic cylinders to move it half a block down 42nd Street on Sunday. The theater, where Abbott and Costello first teamed up in 1935, is planned to become the center of a new 25-screen megaplex and retail center as part of efforts to revitalize Times Square.

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