Show business notes

• Game 4 of the Lakers-Magic series was the highest rated television program last night.
• Only two R-rated comedies have had a higher opening week box office than The Hangover's $45 million and both of them -- Sex and the City and American Pie 2 -- were already franchises with built-in audiences.
• Speaking of franchises, Harrison Ford should be glad he's part of one. According to this story, Ford earned $65 million between June 2008 and this month as part of his revenue sharing agreement in connection with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. That's far more than most of us real people will ever see in our entire lifetimes.
• One of the most controversial films of the year may be Creation starring Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin and Jennifer Connelly as his wife, Emma. It opens in the UK Sept. 25. The U.S. opening has not been scheduled yet.
• Woody Allen says he originally wrote Whatever Works for Zero Mostel and when Mostel died, Allen put the script away in a drawer, only to resurrect it when the writer's strike was looming. It was his casting director who suggested Larry David for the lead.