Singer Jasmine Trias, Hawai'i's highest-finishing "American Idol" contestant — third-place in the 2004 season — will make her Las Vegas showroom debut when she joins the Society of Seven group Feb. 15 through March 18 in the main showroom of the Flamingo hotel.

Trias will fill in for songstress Lani Misalucha, who will be on leave for about five weeks, mostly to promote a new solo CD in her native Philippines.

Trias is busy in rehearsal with SOS leader Tony Ruivivar. She will return home, however, to perform the national anthem at the Feb. 10 Pro Bowl football game in Aloha Stadium. Meantime, Trias also has dates on syndicated TV talk shows, including the "Tyra Banks Show," Ellen DeGeneres' show and "The View."

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer

FEDERLINE CALLS AD A JAB AT HIMSELF

NEW YORK — Kevin Federline has something to say to those offended by an upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring him as a fast-food worker: He's "really sorry."

"The commercial is completely intended for me, making fun of myself and my own situation," the aspiring rapper, 28, said in a recent interview. "It has nothing to do with anybody in the fast-food industry at all. So, you know, if we've offended anybody, I'm really sorry about that."

National Restaurant Association president Steven Anderson last week called the ad a "direct insult to the 12.8 million Americans who work in the restaurant industry." Nationwide Mutual Insurance's 30-second spot shows Federline performing in a glitzy music video — but he's daydreaming while cooking french fries at a fast-food joint.

LAWSUIT AGAINST O.J. TOSSED OUT

A federal judge in L.A. has dismissed a lawsuit against O.J. Simpson by Fred Goldman, father of murder victim Ron Goldman, seeking the $1 million advance O.J. was paid for the ill-fated book "If I Did It," in which the former football great describes how he might have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

The judge ruled Fred Goldman has no jurisdiction.

LOPEZ TO RECEIVE AMNESTY AWARD

LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Lopez will receive an award for her work as producer and star of a film examining the murders of hundreds of women in a Mexican border town, Amnesty International officials said yesterday.

Lopez will receive the Artists for Amnesty award Feb. 14 at the Berlin Film Festival from Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta. The film "Bordertown" will make its debut Feb. 15 at the festival. Lopez plays an investigative journalist reporting on the serial killings in Juarez.