BELIEVE IT OR DON’T: Whenever Harry Dean...

BELIEVE IT OR DON’T: Whenever Harry Dean Stanton performs, he draws a crowd. And his Club Lingerie show last weekend was no exception, drawing such celebs as Jack Nicholson (wearing his shades and touting the Lakers), Sam Shepard and Penny Marshall. . . . Who’s the last person you’d want flying the friendly skies of your neighborhood? (Make that the last person after Axl Rose.) Our vote goes to Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, who has been prodding vocalist Steven Tyler into writing more songs for the group’s next album by buzzing his Massachusetts home in the morning at the helm of his private plane, the “Warrior.” “It’s my idea of a wake-up call,” insists Perry, who said the band travels to Vancouver, Canada, in April to begin work on a new album. . . . If you like Israeli pop, of which Ofra Haza is the latest hip practitioner, then perhaps you would want to sample the charms of Egyptian pop, which will waft across the KCRW-FM airwaves Wednesday at 10 a.m. on Tom Schnabel’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic.” Special guest Samir Hachim (an entertainment writer) will offer “New Sounds from the Middle East,” with new songs from such Egyptian popsters Ali Hmida, Mohammad Munir and Ali Hajjar.