The Makaha Sons — Louis "Moon" Kauakahi, Jerome Koko and John Koko — will perform the national anthem at the start of today's New England Patriots-Buffalo Bills football game in Gilette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. Joining them will be Hoku Zuttermeister, a budding Hawaiian singer.

The Patriots asked the Hawai'i act to perform the "Star-Spangled Banner" (1 p.m. EST, 7 a.m. Hawai'i time), with some CBS stations carrying the game on the Mainland.

KGMB-9, the CBS affiliate, was not expected to televise the game live here. At 7 a.m. today, the San Diego Chargers meet the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in Wisconsin.

The Makaha Sons have been on an East Coast concert tour, continuing performances Tuesday in New York, Thursday in Pennsylvania and Saturday in Maryland.

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer

LAWSUIT OVER DANGERFIELD TAPES

LOS ANGELES — Rodney Dangerfield's widow says that even in death the comedian can't get any respect.

Joan Dangerfield filed a lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles to try to stop the release of videotape of Dangerfield in his later years that his widow says was never intended for the public.

The suit says producer David Permut, a former friend, has more than 200 hours of video footage of Dangerfield taken at his home in ill health. The material is "highly private, extremely sensitive and very personal," according to the lawsuit. The comedian, whose catch phrase was "I don't get no respect," was 82 when he died in 2004.

The suit claims that Permut has shown some of the material to a writer and a newspaper reporter and is editing the material into a documentary called "Respect" that he hopes to show at the Sundance Film Festival next year.

HAYEK NAMES BABY VALENTINA

LOS ANGELES — Salma Hayek has given birth to a baby girl, Valentina Paloma Pinault, her publicist announced Friday.

"Mother and child are doing well," publicist Cari Ross said in a statement. No other details were released.

The Mexico-born actress, 41, is engaged to businessman Francois-Henri Pinault.

Hayek has starred in films such as "Frida," "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" and "After the Sunset." She is one of the executive producers of ABC's "Ugly Betty" and the chief executive of Ventanazul, a production company she formed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

Pinault, 45, heads the luxury goods company PPR SA, which owns high-end labels such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Puma.

AWARD HONORS MOTOWN STAR

LOS ANGELES — Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson, who helped put the fledgling Motown record label on the map in the early 1960s with his group the Miracles, is receiving the United Negro College Fund's award of excellence.

"The award honors Smokey not only for his five-decade career as a creative artist, but also for the contribution he has made to helping students get the college education they need and deserve," said Michael L. Lomax, the group's president.

Robinson, 67, was to get the award last night at the taping of the group's 29th annual "Evening of Stars" concert in Pasadena. The show is to be broadcast in January.