NEW YORK — CNN's Anderson Cooper was back at work yesterday after minor surgery two days earlier to remove a cancerous mole from underneath his left eye.

There was no indication the skin cancer had spread, spokeswoman Shimrit Sheetrit said.

He blogged about his procedure yesterday, when he was following Barack Obama, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, for a special edition of Cooper's nightly news show.

"I hadn't planned on mentioning this," said Cooper, 40. "But I still have stitches and you'll no doubt notice them. ... Don't want you to think I got into a fistfight with Charlie Rose."

NOT GUILTY, SAYS LEBEOUF

LOS ANGELES — Shia LaBeouf pleaded not guilty yesterday to an unlawful smoking charge.

Attorney Michael Norris entered the plea on behalf of LaBeouf, a day after a judge issued a $1,000 warrant for the actor's arrest. The "Transformers" star, who was cited last month, was scheduled to be arraigned on the misdemeanor charge, but he failed to appear at Tuesday's hearing.

The bench warrant was dismissed.

A hearing is set for April 24. If convicted, the 21-year-old actor faces a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and six months in jail.

LaBeouf was arrested in November for refusing to leave a Chicago drugstore, but prosecutors later dropped charges because Walgreen Co. and a security company didn't want to continue the case.

LaBeouf starred on the Disney Channel show "Even Stevens" and can next be seen on the big screen opposite Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

OFFER TO SPITZER CALL GIRL RESCINDED

LOS ANGELES — A $1 million offer to the call girl linked to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was rescinded because she'd already shot footage for "Girls Gone Wild." Now it might be the video maker who will lose out.

The company said yesterday the woman may have been 17 when the footage was filmed, and the video's Internet release will be delayed.

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis originally reached out to Ashley Alexandra Dupre, now 22, offering $1 million for her to appear in a non-nude spread for his company's new magazine and a chance to join the "Girls Gone Wild" tour bus. But on Tuesday, "Girls Gone Wild" employees found archived footage of Dupre filmed in 2003, and Francis retracted the offer.

ANN HARADA TO BE ON TV SATURDAY

Ann Harada, Punahou grad and Broadway actress, will appear on the children's show "Johnny and the Sprites" at 7:30 a.m. Saturday on the Disney Channel.

Harada, who created the role of Christmas Eve in the Tony Award-winning "Avenue Q," will reunite with her "Q" co-star John Tartaglia, who teaches youngsters "about magic in the world around them."

The episode is entitled "The Sprites Save Grotto's Grove." And like "Q," the program uses puppets.

Harada recently completed a run on Broadway in "Les Miserables," in which she portrayed Madame Thenardier.

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer