The stories may change, but the song remains the same as author Peter Lance is planning to tell all about Richard Hatch, the last man standing from CBS’s summer hit “Survivor.” According to E Online, Lance plans to share many tasty tidbits about Hatch in an upcoming, “unauthorized” book about his childhood friend.

Lance was initially planning to help Hatch write his own book about the show until CBS kiboshed the $500,000 book deal. Now that Hatch is planning to write his own memoirs, “101 Survivor Secrets,” Lance is taking the initiative to write his own version of how Hatch won his $1 million prize and how CBS maintained a tight reign on its “shipwrecked” contestants.

The first three chapters of “Stingray: Lethal Tactics of the Sole Survivor,” are currently available online at www.thestingray.net. The book itself will be available in all its unauthorized glory on Dec. 1 from Shadow Lawn Press.

“Stingray” covers topics of which many “Survivor” fans were unaware, such as CBS keeping all 16 of the contestants from profiting from their experience. Hatch supposedly helped CBS keep his fellow castaways from getting more money to appear on a reunion show.

CBS spokesman Gil Schwartz is staying tight-lipped on behalf of the network.

“We have no specific comment, except to say that throughout the life of ‘Survivor,’ there’s been a lot of erroneous stuff written, and we expect that trend to continue,” Schwartz says. “I don’t want to get into [the book] item-by-item … [but] Survivor attracts its share of bogus and mistaken interpretations.”

Lance insists that he is not writing the book to get even at CBS or Hatch for not getting his share of the $500,000 book deal but finds the story itself fascinating.

“It’s not like the morning after he severed ties with me I said, ‘I’m going to go out and get Richard Hatch, but I began to realize that if CBS can control that, what else can they control?” he says. “I’m just saying I have significant evidence that raises questions. It’s an incredible human study.”

For sale: Spock’s Ears

Put on your Depends Trekkers, THE singularly most desirable item from the original “Star Trek” series is going on the auction block: Spock’s ears.

The Los Angeles branch of Christie’s is hosting a bevy of “Star Trek” paraphernalia including not only four pairs of Spock’s pointy ears but the original jeltrate and clay mold used to make them all, according to E Online.

The ears will attract collectors willing to pay $2,000 a pair and the molds should get as much as $20,000. The ears are the creation of the late Hollywood make-up man Fred Phillips who made the ears at his kitchen table and baked them in the same oven he used to cook his meals.

Other items on the block will be a plaster mask of William Shatner’s face listed at $6,000.

According to the Christie’s catalog, “Shatner put up with a lot in sitting for the mask … even suffering through the straws up his nose.”

The lot will be open to viewing starting Nov. 3 in the Los Angeles branch of Christie’s, but online shoppers can view them at www.christies.com. Anyone interested in buying can bid at the auction on Nov. 15.

Jackass star to get big bucks for ‘Tree’Johnny Knoxville of MTV’s new lowbrow comedy show “Jackass” has been offered a salary in the “low seven figures” to star in “The Tree,” a Christmas road comedy ala “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and “Road Trip,” according to Reuters/Variety.

Knoxville will play an eccentric trucker enlisted by a presidential aide to make sure the executive Christmas tree is delivered from Washington state to Washington D.C. on time for the Yuletide celebration.

Photography is to begin Feb. 1 in the hopes the Knoxville vehicle will make it into theaters by Christmas 2001.