`Terminator' 4,5,6

You can't keep a good robot down, or, in this case, a robot franchise. Warner Bros. is planning to premiere the McG-directed "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins" on May 22, 2009, the start of Memorial Day weekend. The movie, which stars "Batman" lead Christian Bale, is the first in a planned trilogy that begins after Skynet destroyed much of the human race in a nuclear holocaust.

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 The ha-ha defense

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld says he was just kidding around when he called "Sneaky Chef" author Missy Chase Lapine a "wacko" for claiming his wife plagiarized her book and then compared Lapine to the killers of John Lennon and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., his lawyers said.

In court papers asking a judge to toss out the suit against Seinfeld and his wife, Jessica, the funnyman says he was just doing his shtick last October when he trashed the "vegetable plagiarism" suit Lapine lobbed at his wife.

Appearing on David Letterman's late-night show, Seinfeld said Jessica's book, "Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food," was an original.

"Jerry Seinfeld made overstatements of opinion for comic effect," his lawyers said in papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

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