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For more of the latest entertainment news FLASH! log on to A16 It's in Sistine Condition Michelangelo drawing found in NYC THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A rare Michelangelo drawing worth more than $10 million was discovered in a back room of a New York City design museum, museum officials said yesterday. "To find a new drawing by Michelangelo is very exciting, but to find a drawing by him of a menorah and, moreover, in New York, is almost incredible," said Sir Timothy Clifford, director of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, who discovered the work while on sabbatical at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in Manhattan. The drawing has been unanimously authenticated by Italian Renaissance art scholars in the United States and abroad and is one of fewer than 10 Michelangelos known to be in the United States, museum director Paul Thompson said. It was purchased by the museum in 1942 for $60, and its current value is estimated at between $10 million and $12 million, art dealers said. About 500 years old and in pristine condition, the 10-inchby-17-inch drawing was made using black chalk, brush and brown wash with incised lines on cream-colored paper.

The work was spotted by Clif- ford in April as he sifted through a box of light fixture designs by unknown artists. The distinctive style of the drawing immediately led him to suspect that it was by Michelangelo. The last known discovery of a Michelangelo drawing in the United States was in 1976, when a work in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was attributed to the artist. Only six public institutions in the United States have Michelangelos, including the Cooper-Hewitt, Thompson said. The museum plans to put the work on public view within a year.

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Hasselhoff, who turns 50 next week, "realized his social drinking had increased more than he was comfortable with and he decided to do something about David Hasselhoff it," his publicist Richard Hoffman said in a statement Monday. Hasselhoff was admitted to the clinic on June 26, said Hoffman. It was not clear how long the actor would remain in the Rancho 'N SYNC'S FATONE TO "RENT." 'N Sync-er Joey Fatone is going to the East Village. Fatone, 25, takes over the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway cast of "Rent" starting Aug. 5.

Fatone began rehearsals at an undisclosed location this week. "He'd seen the show four or five times before and really loved it," a spokeswoman said yesterday. The band's last tour ended in April and plans are on hold while Lance Bass prepares for a trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket. Fatone is to stay with the show through Dec. 22.

He takes over the role from Matt Kaplan. Meanwhile, Russian space officials confirmed yesterday they are in talks with Bass but no contract had been signed. Robert Kahn MYERS TO PLAY KEITH MOON? "Austin Powers" star Mike Myers is discussing the possibility of starring in a movie about Who drummer Keith Moon, according to The Associated Press. Myers and the Who frontman Roger Daltrey have discussed plans for a forthcoming film. Moon was 32 when he died of a drug overdose in 1978.

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