Late Hawai'i casting director and film producer Randy Stone was remembered — off and on screen — when 20th Century Fox's "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," premiered Wednesday at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

Stone, who cast David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on the original Fox TV series, was acknowledged on the red carpet and in the film's end credit roll.

"Randy was the casting director who made the whole thing work," said his mother, the Rev. Beverly Stone, who attended. Writer-producerdirector Chris Carter told the Stone family — father Richard, sister Marie Stone Wong, brother Jeff and nephew Sean — that Randy's discovery of the two then-unknowns was a key to the "X-Files" success. Stone died last year at age 48.

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer

PAPARAZZI INVADE AT PITT'S PLACE

Paparazzi in camouflage gear breached the Miraval compound in France of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, touching off a melee Thursday with security guards.

Freelance paparazzo Luc Goursolas said he broke a guard's hand and bit another one till he drew blood. He himself went home with a gash on his head that needed three stitches.

Goursolas said that after police stopped the battle, Brad Pitt said to him, "If you want war, you will get it."

SPEARS FINALIZES FEDERLINE DEAL

LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears and Kevin Federline finalized their child-custody settlement with court approval yesterday, including a $5,000-a-month increase in child support for the pop singer's ex-husband.

Spears' payments to Federline rise to $20,000 a month, retroactive to July 15. Spears, 26, also will pay Federline's attorneys $250,000, and has been granted more time with her children.

HEEEERE'S JIMMY WITH A JOB FOR ED

LOS ANGELES — Ed McMahon has a job.

The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is back as a pitchman, appearing in several comical commercial segments on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of four spots, which were filmed Thursday and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show.

"It felt very good to be out of the brace and working again," McMahon, who recently underwent a third neck surgery, said yesterday. "I spent my whole life doing commercials, so here I was back doing a commercial again. It was very comforting. Believe me."

The 85-year-old former "Star Search" host is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, two doctors and the owner of a home where he says he fell during a dinner party in March 2007 claiming negligence, battery, elder abuse and infliction of emotional distress. He says the injury left him unable to work until now.

McMahon is also fighting foreclosure on his Beverly Hills home, after falling $644,000 behind on mortgage payments. And he is being sued by Citibank, which is trying to recoup a nearly $200,000 loan.