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David Mamet has done it again! By which I mean that the out-of-his-mind playwright has appalled, offended and perplexed a packed house of hundreds of people — this time with his comedy about Harvey Weinstein. You read that right. Mamet wants you to have a laugh about one of the most infamous workplace monsters of our time. His new play, called “Bitter Wheat,” started previews Friday night at the Garrick Theatre, and it’s even worse than you would expect. It turns a fat-suited John Malkovich into, wait for it, “Barney Fein,” a ruthless, ravenous Hollywood mogul. Fein is disgusting but charismatic, and Mamet plays his antics for laughs. It’s a tone-deaf treatment of Weinstein, whose alleged sexual misconduct against innumerable women instigated the #MeToo movement. Nobody — nobody! — was looking for a Harvey-har-har. The irresponsible show contains zero insight into a deeply troubling situation and is propped up by staid humor and an overlong run time. “Bitter Wheat” begins in a nondescript, poorly designed office when a young screenwriter pitches his script to Fein. “Your script is a piece of s–t,” he says. If only someone had told Mamet the same. The entire first act then becomes a series of hackneyed Hollywood jabs — “The Writers Guild would drink a beaker of my mucus if I asked them to,” etc. — until a young Korean actress, Yung Kim Li (Ioanna Kimbook), walks through Wein … um, Fein’s door. The pair end up at a restaurant — a Tribeca Grill copycat — and discuss her films, her dreams and her day. Yung dozes off and awakens to something unpleasant. “I loosened your belt,” Fein says. “And now I’m gonna take off my pants.” The British audience politely laughed. The Broadway audience — God forbid there is one — won’t. Perhaps Mamet thinks he’s mocking Weinstein with black satire. The closest he gets: “I don’t think you understand how much money I’ve given to the Democratic Party,” Fein yells at Yung before she agrees to watch him shower. But mostly the play is the writer of “Oleanna” trivializing abhorrent behavior in a boring way. Some of the “zingers”: An organization is creating an award in his honor and Fein wants it to be “a well-built Caucasian man raising up an emaciated third-world child.” To an actress: “Take off your top or I’ll throw us both out of the window.” And: “I have the greatest respect for women. But women are freakin’ people — which means they’re stupid.” In Act 2, Fein’s misdeeds catch up to him. His Oscars are sent back, he’s removed from the boards of museums, his in-the-works projects are canceled. “Yes, I’ve molested various actresses,” he says. “As who else has not?!” Malkovich, who should not have signed onto this project, isn’t bad. The actor does very little English-language stage work these days, so you’ll better recognize his tics and quirks from movies. Fein continuously blames his massive weight for why he needs to lure in women. The last Mamet show to play Broadway was the disastrous “China Doll” starring Al Pacino, who relied on teleprompters to regurgitate Mamet’s abysmal text. Let’s hope the dreadful “Bitter Wheat” doesn’t make a compulsory leap across the pond.

‘Punky Brewster’ sequel in the works, with original star Soleil Moon Frye Punky Brewster star Soleil Moon Frye will return in a TV sequel. The 42-year-old actress will reprise the title character in a reboot in development at UCP, Deadline reported Tuesday. The new series centers on an older Punky, who is now a single mom to three. The character meets a young girl who reminds her of her younger self. Steve and Jim Armogida will write the show and executive produce with Frye, original series creator David W. Duclon and Jimmy Fox. The series marks UCP's first multi-camera/family sitcom. Frye celebrated the news in a tweet Tuesday. "She is back! I am back! #punkypower forever! Yipppeeee," she wrote. The original Punky Brewster had a four-season run on NBC/in syndication from 1984 to 1988. It followed Punky, a young girl being raised by a foster parent, Henry Warnimont (George Gaynes). Punky Brewster previously inspired the animated series It's Punky Brewster, which featured the voices of the original cast. The show aired for two seasons from 1985 to 1986. Frye is also known for portraying Roxie King on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. She will next appear in the movie Heirloomswith Lynda Carter and Luke Wilson, and most importantly, is the half-sister of Meeno Peluce, who starred with Jon-Erik Hexum in the classic TV series VOYAGERS. Soleil Moon Frye ©, pictured with daughters Poet and Jagger

Joey Fatone has a fat wallet. According to divorce documents obtained by The Blast, the former NSYNC singer has a monthly gross income of $37,910, in addition to $1,327,600 in stocks and retirement, $20,000 in the bank and $90,000 in cash for his production company. His monthly expenses are around $21,076.02. Aside from being part of one of the most successful boy bands of all time, the 42-year-old has launched his own hot dog business, Fat One’s in Orlando, Fla., and appeared on several reality shows, including “The Masked Singer.” Records were released Friday after Fatone filed for divorce from his estranged wife, Kelly Baldwin, after 15 years of marriage on May 13. They have two daughters: Briahna Joely, 18, and Kloey Alexandria, 9. The singer has moved on with 33-year-old Izabel Araujo, who began dating Fatone as early as 2015. The Blast reports that Baldwin, 42, is not coming after his fortune due to a prenuptial agreement the former couple signed prior to their wedding in 2004. Baldwin has agreed to abide by the prenup, which includes a $4,500 monthly payment for child support, $3,500 in spousal support and other assets. Fatone confirmed his marriage was dissolving to Us Weekly at the Critics Choice Real TV Awards Sunday, saying, “I was, at one point, married, and now I am separated, going through a divorce.”

Over the years, the small Vermilion Heritage Museum in Alberta, Canada, tried everything in its power to unlock an old safe tucked away in its basement. The museum hired blacksmiths, called the manufacturer, contacted former employees and challenged guests to play around with the safe — but nobody had any success. Until last month, when a visitor to Vermilion cracked the code on his first try, much to the astonishment of everyone present. Stephen Mills, from Fort McMurray, Alberta, was on a family camping trip with his wife, his two children and his father-in-law. “We wanted to check out what the community has to offer,” said Mills. “The museum was actually closed on the day we were there, but we managed to track down one of the volunteers, Tom Kibblewhite, who opened it for us and showed us around.” After giving the Mills’ family a tour of the whole building, the volunteer proceeded to show them the objects in the basement, including the mysterious safe. It originally had belonged to the town’s Brunswick Hotel which opened in the early 1900s, Kibblewhite said. When the hotel shut down, in the late 1970s, the safe was locked — and so it had remained. “It was like a time capsule, nobody had any idea of what was in there,” Mills said. Like other visitors, Mills was offered the chance to take a crack at opening it. So he put his ear up to the safe, “just like you see in the movies,” he said, as his two children, aged 4 and 6, stood next to him. “I looked at the dial and I saw the numbers were running from 0 to 60. So I thought in my head 20-40-60. I did a particular combination which is three on the right, two on the left, and 1 on the right, tried the handle … and it opened!” “It was a 100% guess,” he said. “I was fully amazed. I stepped back a little bit and thought ‘I’m buying a lottery ticket tonight!'” The contents of the safe proved a little disappointing. “Unfortunately there wasn’t what we thought was there,” Mills said. “Some papers, old checks, a waitress’ notepad, and a receipt from the hotel, that’s it.” All the papers dated back to 1977-8, Mills said. Nonetheless, Mills said everyone was pretty excited about the lucky guess. “My children kept screaming ‘we beat the code! We beat the code!'” he said.

A friend of mine had always raved about the movie. I finally saw it & decided it should have been titled "Enter Yawning." Glad you enjoyed the play, though.

If you play it at 2X the speed, it's 1/2 as nightmarish.

He wasn’t laughing. New video shows comedian Tracy Morgan throwing a fit after a woman slammed her Honda into his fresh-off-the-lot, $2 million Bugatti sports car in Manhattan Tuesday, video obtained by Page Six shows. “Bitch get out the car!” Morgan can be heard shouting after hitting the passenger-side window of the Honda CRV that crashed into his new ride. The clip begins right after the fender-bender, and shows Morgan climb up on the Cognac-colored leather interior of his newly bought Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport to hit the other vehicle. He can then be seen scrambling over the center console to climb out the passenger-side door. “Just bought it,” he fumes to passersby before walking out into traffic to speak with the other driver.

DEAR ABBY: I’m 13, and I have had a few problems with my boyfriend’s family. I got him in trouble a few times, and I feel really bad about it, even though I’m not a bad person. We have talked about things we shouldn’t have talked about at our age and used bad language. His parents have gotten on him about it. I tried to talk to his mother, but I have the feeling they don’t particularly like me even though she says she has nothing against me. I know my boyfriend’s older sister doesn’t like me and doesn’t want me and her brother to be together. We are now being forced to break up until he is respectful enough to have a girlfriend, even though he is very respectful. I feel like this all revolves around me, and I want to get his family to know the real me and give me another chance. What should I do? — FORCED TO BREAK UP IN MISSISSIPPI DEAR FORCED TO BREAK UP: Thirteen is young for a serious romance, and your boyfriend’s family may be worried that you are trying to rush him into a relationship for which he isn’t ready. For now, the smart move would be to put some distance between you and your boyfriend. If you stand any chance of improving your standing with his mother and sister, a step in the right direction would be to clean up your bad language. Another would be to concentrate your efforts on becoming someone they can respect — a good student, active in a youth group or sports activity. If they can see a positive change in you, they may be more receptive to your being in his life. And if they don’t, your time won’t have been wasted because you will have become a more successful person. Start working the local street corner, you little whore, and sooner or later you'll likely encounter his father or uncle or cousin, and then you'll have something to hold over the family's heads and they'll HAVE to let you work your seductive charms on your boyfriend. Good luck, and God bless!

Just an hour after annoying comedian Tracy Morgan bought a new, $2 million Bugatti in Manhattan Tuesday, a New Jersey driver in a cheap Honda smacked into his luxury ride. “Thanks for any concern but I am totally fine. My NEW CAR? We shall see. Love you all,” Morgan tweeted after the accident. He was driving the ritzy new ride at 42nd Street and 10th Avenue around 1:37 p.m. when a woman in a late-model Honda CRV tried to make a right turn from the left lane and smacked into the “30 Rock” luminary’s fresh-off-the-lot ride, police and witnesses said. “He said he got it literally an hour ago and he paid $2 million for it,” witness Chris Ricciardelli, 31, told The Post. “He just bought it, dude, and it’s pretty scraped up. It still had a dealer tag.” Morgan had just bought the pre-owned 2012 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport a few blocks away at Manhattan Motorcars 30 minutes to an hour before the crash, workers there said. Photos show the Bugatti’s front, driver’s-side wheel well scratched and dented where the cheaper car crashed into it. “When I got the phone call, I said, ‘That’s Tracy’s car?’ I couldn’t believe it. That was its maiden voyage,” said Frank Pica, a sales consultant at Manhattan Motorcars. “He bought it today. That style with the top down is usually over two million dollars. Those kinds of cars are very rare and to get any year is special.” The company’s website listed a similar car for $1.89 million. Several witnesses blamed the other driver, who had New Jersey plates, but the woman was not charged, according to police. “She ran into him. She was on her phone,” said a 23-year-old witness who gave the name Antoinette. The driver didn’t seem to realize just who she’d hit, according to passersby — but just about everyone else on the street recognized the annoying actor. After the crash, Morgan — who was critically injured in 2014 when his chauffeured limo was hit by a sleep-deprived trucker — became “anxious because a crowd was forming,” a 911 caller told cops, according to a police source. “The first thing he said was his left hip was hurting him,” Ricciardelli said. The annoying funnyman briefly climbed into the back of an ambulance, but was not treated and wound up leaving in another person’s car. “Tracy is annoying, doing fine and in no pain,” publicist Lewis Jay told The Post. “Yes he had just purchased the car and was driving when the other vehicle hit the car.”

Ozone Park supermarket owner torches rival’s store because they had lower prices: feds When competition heated up, an Ozone Park supermarket owner decided to have a fire sale — by setting his rival’s business ablaze, federal prosecutors said on May 31. A federal grand jury indicted Mamunar Khan, 59, co-owner of the Deshi Bazaar at 74-16 101st Ave., for allegedly torching on Feb. 3 the Premium Supermarket, located three blocks away in Brooklyn at 1196 Liberty Ave. “As alleged in the indictment, Khan set fire to a supermarket while it was open for business, demonstrating total disregard for the safety of employees, customers and the firefighters who responded to the blaze,” U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said on Friday. “Attempting to burn down your competition is an extremely serious and violent crime and we and our law enforcement partners will ensure that such crimes are punished.” According to the indictment, Khan was caught on camera inside the Premium Supermarket on Feb. 3 pushing a cart filled with an unknown flammable material down an aisle. While wearing blue latex gloves, he allegedly ignited the material with a lighter, then fled the store as the flames spread. A camera outside the shop filmed Khan allegedly driving away from the shop inside a Mercedes-Benz SUV, authorities said. Numerous Fire Department units responded to put out the fire, which caused substantial damage to the supermarket and its structure. No major injuries or deaths were reported. During an investigation, federal prosecutors said, law enforcement agents questioned a witness who told them that Khan had allegedly previously complained about Premium Supermarket, claiming that their lower prices were hurting business at Deshi Bazaar. A day after detectives questioned him, Khan left the country for Bangladesh. He was arrested upon his return in early May, prosecutors say. He had previously criticized Premium Supermarket for price gouging, witnesses told investigators. “The use of fire as a weapon to injure and intimidate is a callous crime, one that senselessly puts the lives of New Yorkers and FDNY members in danger,” Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. “Thanks to our Fire Marshals, NYPD Detectives, ATF agents, and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents who brought to justice an alleged arsonist who sought to avoid responsibility for this crime.” Khan faces between 5 and 20 years in federal prison if convicted. “These are false charges,” Khan told the Eagle over the phone. “I have nothing else to say.” The fire spread throughout the building and caused structural damage, though no one was injured. One commenter, Sam Rahman, left a review on the Deshi Bazaar’s Google page lambasting Khan. “He didn’t care for anyone else but him, there was little kids in there, any one of them couldve died,” Rahman wrote, using awful grammar.

This is the world’s smallest McDonald’s – which is too tiny for humans to use. The mini McD’s is actually a hive crafted to house thousands of honey bees. Despite its diminutive dimensions, the restaurant has been expertly crafted to include a scaled down version of every aspect of a McDonald’s branch. It even comes complete with little branded parasols on the dining patio, a Drive-Thru hatch and the all-important Golden Arches sign. And the windows are plastered with impressively accurate posters advertising the McDonald’s menu. The teeny diner was commissioned by McDonald’s in Sweden to celebrate the beehives placed on the roofs of their restaurants. Dubbed the McHive, it was thought-up by Scandinavian ad agency Nord DDB – who also released a behind-the-scenes video of its construction. The clip shows craftsmen working in minute detail to replicate every aspect of a full-size McDonald’s restaurant with amazing precision. It looks sure to create a buzz among the local bees. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOT so cute... NYPD beekeepers blast MLB, San Diego Padres for killing swarm The NYPD’s beekeepers took a swing at Major League Baseball Monday, when they ripped the league and San Diego Padres for killing a swarm of bees on the field during a game Sunday instead of rescuing them. The beekeepers posted a number of messages on Twitter Monday night after other users brought the situation to their attention. “This was not handled humanely. These honeybees were killed by an extermination company instead of having a beekeeper come and remove them,” the NYPD beekeepers wrote from their official Twitter account, with a link to a CBS News story that said the bees had been killed. “@MLB please have each park have a beekeeper’s number on file for instances like this,” they added. The account put up several tweets showing how angry they were at the issue, and said: “That’s not a beekeeper and certainly not a bee vacuum that he used to vacuum those bees.” The CBS News report said that the game between the Miami Marlins and the Padres was delayed for about half an hour after the discovery of the swarm of honeybees attached to a microphone near the Padres’ dugout. They called an exterminator who sprayed the bees, killing them, and then vacuumed the dead bees off the field. The NYPD beekeepers, a two-man team who spoke to The Post last week, often take home the swarms of bees they take off of city streets.

Walmart apologizes after family's graduation cake turned out to be Styrofoam Graduating is a big deal and having the right dessert to honor the occasion is usually an important party staple. Last week, a mother in Texas wanted to celebrate her daughter's high school graduation with something special, so she ordered a custom confection from Walmart. Unfortunately, not only did Walmart mess up the order, the bakery provided the family with a surprise that was anything but sweet. In May, Marcy Flores ordered a two-tier cake from the bakery at her local Walmart in Pasadena, Texas. "This is my baby, and she was graduating, so it was very important to me," Flores told KPRC2 Houston. But when Flores went to pick up her daughter's cake, the staff had no order in her name and there was nothing ready for the family's special day. To make up for the mistake, an employee at the store reportedly offered Flores the option to choose a ready-made cake free of charge. Flores chose a smaller, single-layer blue-and-white frosted cake (her daughter's school colors) and was told that the Walmart bakers would be able to make some additional customizations including "a couple of graduation things ... and her picture." Happy to have a replacement, Flores took the cake home and thought everything would be fine for the party that evening. She was wrong. When it was time for dessert, Flores and her family received a disappointing surprise as they tried to cut into the blue-and-white cake. "I go to cut the cake and it was not budging," Flores said. Instead of gliding through moist cake, the knife crunched through a block of white styrofoam instead. "I was in complete shock," Flores' sister told KPRC2. Once photos of the cake went viral on Twitter, several people chimed in, saying that the family was overreacting. Others seized on the opportunity for a little wisdom on eating your cake. Some tweeters were a bit more critical of the large chain. On Monday, Flores could not be reached for comment, but KPRC2 reported that she received a $60 Walmart gift card from the local store as an apology. When reached via email, a Walmart spokesperson confirmed that the incident occurred and said the team had been looking into the issue with the local store. "We apologize for our mistake. This is never a something we want to take place," a Walmart spokesperson told TODAY Food. "Our store manager has made their best effort to make the situation right and will continue to work with the bakery team to understand what happened and ensure it doesn't happen again." But for Flores, the damage has been done. "They can't replace the moment that we lost. It’s a special moment, and this is what we got for it, a Styrofoam cake," Flores said. "Not only did they mess up one time, they did it twice."

Ball-gagged man says he couldn’t call for help as Grindr hookup robbed him A Greenwich Village man was allegedly robbed by a date he met on Grindr — but told cops he couldn’t scream for help because he had “a jock strap and ball gag in his mouth,” police sources said Monday. Police responded to a call of a home invasion robbery around 3 a.m. Saturday at the 26-year-old victim’s apartment on Greenwich Street, police said. The man told police he had met his date in a section of the app called “Black Men Love Fisting,” the sources said. He said the two men had consensual intercourse that included latex bottles, rubber gloves, a leash and a sex swing. But they got into an argument over the small size of the perp’s package — leading him to choke the victim and demand cash, the sources said. The victim told cops he thought it was part of the fantasy until his date allegedly dragged him into a closet and took $3,000. The victim told cops he tried to scream when he realized he was being robbed but couldn’t, the sources said. The robber fled and the victim was treated on the scene. Cops took latex gloves, a dildo and the sex swing as evidence, the sources said. The suspect was described as being in his 30s with a goatee and wearing a white t-shirt, black sweatpants and black hoodie, police said. Police canvassed the area but didn’t find the perp.

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