Meet the shiny new Beatles

Beatlemania 2.0 looks and sounds a lot like the ’60s prototype. Only crisper, clearer, shinier.

The shrieking girls, the shaggy Mop Tops and their scores of indelible pop hits are digitally reborn in “The Beatles: Rock Band” video game, which hits store shelves today, along with the band’s newly remastered catalog, a long-awaited sonic upgrade of 14 titles.

“We’re quite fussy,” Paul McCartney tells USA Today, explaining why fans had to wait so long for the refurbished sounds of the iconic band that broke up nearly 40 years ago. “It’s not as if we were going to crap out or sell out.”

Ringo Starr serves up a cheeky pitch.

“The game is great, the music’s greater and, animated, I look gorgeous!” the drummer says of his video-game debut.

A Jay-Z benefit

Rapper Jay-Z is planning a Sept. 11 charity concert, billed as “Answer the Call,” at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Jay-Z said he will donate all proceeds from the concert to the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund. It will air live on Fuse TV.

Paula pounds the gavel

Paula Abdul is back in the judge’s seat – but not on the “American Idol” stage.

Abdul cameos in Lifetime’s “Drop Dead Diva” as a gavel-banging, glammed-up version of herself in a dream sequence set in a Los Angeles courtroom. In the over-the-top scene, the former “Idol” judge dispenses oh-so-fabulous justice in the form of a vocal and fashion critique to Jane (played by Brooke Elliott), a plus-size lawyer.

The birthday bunch

Cliff Robertson is 86. Topol (“Fiddler on the Roof”) is 74. Singer Dee Dee Sharp is 64. Tom Wopat is 58. Angela Cartwright (“The Danny Thomas Show,” “Lost in Space”) is 57. Hugh Grant is 49. Adam Sandler is 43. Michelle Williams (“Brokeback Mountain,” “Dawson’s Creek”) is 29.