CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) – Paris Hilton says she isn’t giving up “The Simple Life” just yet.

“We’re shooting Nov. 1,” said the 24-year-old hotel heiress, who had a front-row seat at the Louis Verdad fashion show Sunday. “All the networks are fighting over it.”

Fox said last week it had canceled the reality show starring Hilton and Nicole Richie. The network said its midseason schedule didn’t have a time slot for a fourth season, prompting speculation the feuding ex-friends no longer proved compatible.

Hilton said she and Richie will continue working on “The Simple Life” because other networks want it.

Last week, 20th Century Fox Television, the studio that produces the show, said it hopes “The Simple Life” will move to another network – with Hilton and Richie.

“We believe this series … is still a dynamic and valuable franchise,” the studio said. “We hope to be able to announce a new network partner in the coming days.”

Bunim-Murray Productions, which produces the show with 20th Century Fox, also released a hopeful statement: “We’re very excited about the creative plans for the next group of episodes, and are confident this situation will be remedied quickly.”

Hilton’s friend Kimberly Stewart, Rod Stewart’s 26-year-old daughter, dismissed as “rumor” reports that she had been touted as a replacement for Richie.

But Stewart was coy about doing a future project with Hilton, telling reporters Sunday, “You never know.”

In April, Hilton issued a terse statement saying it was “no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends. Nicole knows what she did, and that’s all I’m ever going to say about it.”

Hilton has given no reason for the split.

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NEW YORK (AP) – City officials have ordered Ann Curry to shorten the penthouse she had built atop her Upper West Side home or face a public hearing.

The “Today” show news anchor and “Dateline NBC” co-host has been clashing with neighbors over the structure and other renovations since she bought the four-story brownstone in November 2003, neighbor Lynne Lummel told the New York Post for Monday’s editions.

The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission told Curry last week that she has to shorten the 18-foot penthouse or appeal in a public hearing for an exception to city rules, agency spokeswoman Diane Jackier said.

A message left with a “Today” show spokeswoman wasn’t immediately returned early Monday.

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ROME (AP) – Roberto Benigni delivered four minutes of slapstick comedy antics during a live appearance on state television to promote his latest comic film, set against the backdrop of the Iraq war.

Sitting down Saturday night next to the TV anchorman, Benigni took off a red sweater and draped it on the embarrassed-looking man’s shoulders. He then ranted in favor of poetry and against war, which he said “makes no sense and is vulgar.”

He even delivered some false news for shock value, joking that Premier Silvio Berlusconi had resigned.

Benigni is promoting “La Tigre e la Neve (The Tiger and the Snow),” a comedy set in today’s Iraq that stars the 52-year-old actor-director and his real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi.

He and Braschi also starred in “Life Is Beautiful,” about a father’s attempt to shield his young son from evil in a Nazi death camp. That film won the Oscar for best foreign film and Benigni won a best-actor Oscar.

“With his ability as an extraordinary improviser, he took over four minutes of the TV news, giving himself a gift of a long, maxi-commercial” for the movie, the Turin daily La Stampa said Sunday.

Benigni also told viewers during the live broadcast that he would reimburse the cost of their tickets if they did not like his new film.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Diane Sawyer has joined Muhammad Ali, jockey Pat Day and KFC founder Col. Harlan Sanders as a fixture in downtown Louisville.

Sawyer, host of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” is the latest person featured in the “hometown heroes” mural series installed by the Greater Louisville Pride Foundation.

The mural of the Glasgow, Ky., native, which was installed Saturday, is 55 feet wide and 65 feet high. It faces Third Street but can be seen by cars traveling on Interstate 65.

Chad Carlton, a spokesman for Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson, said he believes the murals bring a welcome spotlight to many of those who got their start or made their names in Louisville.

“We’re glad to see Diane Sawyer join the ranks of Louisville greats,” Carlton said.

Sawyer’s mural cost about $35,000 to create and erect. It was sponsored by WHAS-TV and ABC, which produces “Good Morning America,” said Mike Sheehy, president of the foundation.