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Woody gets away with it

Actor Woody Harrelson was back in San Francisco, barefoot and promoting his eco-activism agenda. But instead of fining him for scaling the Golden Gate Bridge, police stopped him for running a stop sign on his bicycle.

"It was so silly," the former "Cheers" co-star said Monday. "The only thing that interfered with us was the cop."

Harrelson and about eight friends have been riding their bicycles from Seattle to Santa Barbara spreading the message of simple organic living. The 39-year-old actor said police tried to ticket him for running the stop sign, but he gave his name as William Poindexter and told the officer to arrest him or let him go. He and his friend then pedaled away.

That's Dr. McGraw to you

Country music star Tim McGraw will soon be a doctor of humanities. McGraw, a Delhi, La., native, will receive an honorary doctorate Saturday from the University of Louisiana-Monroe, where he was once a student. "I feel very humbled to be receiving this honorary degree," McGraw said. "It will be good to be home and have my family there with me."

The 34-year-old singer has a history of philanthropy. In 1994, he organized the first Swampstock, which began as a softball game to raise funds for Little League in Rayville. Swampstock now consists of a celebrity softball game and a concert, with attendance of more than 11,000.

Wings taking off again?

Paul McCartney held out the prospect of a collection of new songs this fall as he launched a retrospective album and a television documentary on his band Wings. McCartney said he spent two weeks working on a new record in Los Angeles earlier this year, and hopes to complete it in June for a possible September release. "I'm very excited about it," he said Monday. "For a few years now ... I've had some songs that I've been writing, and I thought it was time to make a new album."

"Wingspan" is a two-part compilation that combines Wings' greatest hits and a second disc of lesser-known songs that documents the band's history. A two-hour TV documentary will air Friday in the United States on ABC.

Actor fesses up to vandalism

Someone has spray-painted Stars of David over the swastikas on the theater marquee for "Judgment at Nuremberg." The culprit? None other than the show's star, Maximilian Schell.

"Max was the one who did it," confirmed Joe Trentacosta, the show's publicist. "Basically, he was tired of looking at the swastika every day." Schell owned up a few days after the six-pointed stars appeared last week on the marquee of the Longacre Theatre on 48th Street and Broadway.