This flick’s expected to be a winner.

Yet, three months before it’s to be widely released to summer audiences, it’s already mired in controversy in Palm Beach County.

The Perfect Game has everything to please.

It’s about baseball, the 1957 Little League World Series winners of Monterey Industrial. The ragtag crew from Mexico won 13 games in a row by a combined score of 99 to 13 while relying on cash and food donations from other teams to keep playing.

The flick stars beloved actors Cheech Marin and Lou Gossett Jr., and a plethora of up-and-comers, including Heroes TV actress Hayden Panettiere’s little brother, Jansen (left).

And when it comes out, in time for the real Little League World Series, it’s destined to make much more than the $10 million it cost local investors.

So, what could possibly be wrong? The divorce of the president of production company Prelude Pictures, Daniel de Liege.

In an unusual move his wife of two years, Kara, is suing the West Palm-based Prelude as well as other companies that put out the film as part of her divorce. She wants half her husband’s profits on the film.
De Liege’s lawyer, high-profile divorce attorney Jay Jacknin, said: “All she’s looking for is money. There’s a back-end deal on the profits, so it could be big money. Fact is Dan started working on this film long before he married her. This is a short marriage. She shouldn’t be getting that much.”

Through her barrister, Kara also tried to freeze the film company’s corporate accounts but was unsuccessful. The court documents show she’s alleging de Liege is already engaged to another lady and squandering their marital dough.

Neither the former lovebirds nor Kara’s lawyer returned calls for comment.

“You might as well show off what you have before you don’t have it any more!”

With those words, the then-teen who allegedly became New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s paid galpal explained to a Palm Beach Post reporter why she was flaunting her now famous wares for the cameras of Girls Gone Wild.

The place: Miami Beach’s Chesterfield Hotel.

The time: a sweaty afternoon in mid-March 2003.

Former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s paid galpal, “Kristen,” center, made Girls Gone Wild films in Miami Beach in March 2003. (Richard Graulich/2003 Post file photo)

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Video: ‘Amber’ on Girls Gone Wild
Photos: More photos of ‘Kristen’
2003 interview with ‘Amber’

Then in her late teens, Ashley Alexandra Dupre introduced herself as the newest Girls Gone Wild star, Amber. She said she was 21, from New Jersey and recently worked as a waitress in North Carolina.

And she was already turning heads. The night before the interview, during hours of drunken revelry at the hotel filmed by GGW, Dupre’s topless antics and suggestive dancing were captured for one of the tapes that made company founder Joe Francis a multimillionaire — and a man facing 10 years in prison.

Earlier this week, GGW offered Dupre $1 million to pose in her birthday suit. Then the company discovered it didn’t have to shell out cash: Its vault contains 5-year-old footage and pictures of a woman identified as Dupre.

But even for the producers and cameramen who traveled America to find drunk girls willing to lift up their shirts, “Amber” took the party to a place where even Girls Gone Wild won’t go.

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, appearing in this picture as “Amber”, poses with a large group on Collins Avenue for a “Girls Gone Wild” shoot on Miami Beach in 2003. (Richard Graulich/2003 Post file photo)

Amber hopped on a table in the middle of a hotel lobby crammed with frat boys, one producer told The Post, and launched into a raunchy strip-tease. That’s when the camera crew packed up and returned to their monster bus to leave town.

When asked by our reporter about the party, Amber said: “It got crazy. It was everything you thought it would be.

“It’s not stupid to do it (take off your clothes for GGW). It’s all fun and games.”

Earlier this year, fun and games sparked an FBI investigation into strange money transfers by Spitzer. Eventually, the transfers were shown to be an attempt to hide the gov’s hooker bills — including those to sleep with Dupre in a Washington, D.C., hotel. Spitzer resigned last week as Dupre’s good looks made front page news.

In interviews this week, Francis said Dupre was on vacation in South Beach when she ditched a girlfriend after an argument. Dupre saw the GGW bus on the street, signed the customary liability releases and joined the out-of-control party.

Francis last week pleaded no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges in Bay County in connection with a 5-year-old incident in Panama City. He was sentenced to fines and time served. He still faces a 10-year sentence on a federal tax evasion charge.

Martha Stewart practices a Tarzan yell with Carol Burnett Wednesday on the Today Show.

If there’s one person who reveled in the news that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was in a world of hurt this week, it was domestic diva Martha Stewart.

Forget the housewife’s manners.

Several sources on both sides of Lake Worth are telling me Stewart was on The Island when she received a phone call from an unidentified employee in New York who told her Monday afternoon that Spitzer had been linked to an international prostitution ring.

He resigned today, but Stewart went out to celebrate in an unusual fashion Monday afternoon.

“She was gleeful,” says one well-placed source. “Few people had seen her this animated in a while.

“She said she’d celebrate at The Breakers with a round of ‘Spitzer spritzers.’”

Page 2.1 looked online for the ingredients of the drink, and asked Stewart spokeswoman Katherine Nash, but it must be something the ultimate homemaker isn’t printing in her magazines. There would be no comment.

Why would Stewart enjoy someone else’s misery?

Well, back in the early 2000s, New York’s young and ambitious State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was making a name for himself in rooting out corporate corruption on Wall Street.

Meanwhile, Stewart was selling a large number of shares in the biopharmaceutical company ImClone shortly before the stock tanked. Stewart, now 66, saved about $45,000 — but got on regulators’ radar screens.

Spitzer almost single-handedly made it fashionable to go after big-deal CEOs as he fought a well-publicized turf battle with federal prosecutors in nailing the biggest fish.

Stewart fell in the federal net and served five months on insider trading-related charges four years ago — but it was Spitzer who kicked up the hornet’s nest that eventually had her bunk with hardened criminals.

Before she received her happy call, Stewart was spotted shopping on Antique Row, downtown West Palm Beach.

“I took her around,” said family friend and Antique Row store owner Judy Barron. “She never said anything about Spitzer to me. We spent a couple of hours going from store to store.”

Word is that Stewart got the call at the Palm Beach home of Lisbeth Barron, a Bear Stearns big and Judy’s sister. When reached at her $11 million home, Lisbeth declined comment.

One thing is sure, though: Seems that Stewart is more down to earth.

“She’s been here before and wasn’t the nicest person,” said Jeffrey Rafael, of Jeffrey-Marie Inc. on Antique Row. “She’s definitely humbled.”

South Florida Trekkies, time to break out the ol’ communicators!

Capt. James T. Kirk is coming straight at you — in more ways than one.

A never-aging star of Star Trek to some, and Denny Crane on the ABC hit Boston Legal to others, actor William Shatner has inked several deals with an up-and-coming Boca Raton-based film company — including a documentary on a ballet set to his music, then a spoof of The Wedding Crashers.

By late spring, Five Star Pictures and Big Screen Entertainment should be set to release William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet, which highlights the making of the Milwaukee Ballet’s performance to a 2004 Shatner CD that had critics howling and fans in a tizzy.

Strange, you say? You have no idea!

“Bill is really a frustrated ballet performer,” says Brooks Parsons, Five Star spokesman.

Says Big Screen boss David Zappone, L.A. actor/producer and a graduate of the Burt Reynolds Action Company in Jupiter: “I ran into Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock in Star Trek) on the lot the other day and told him about the project. He thought it was the funniest thing he’s ever heard.”

Yet to Shatner, who turns 77 March 22, Gonzo Ballet is anything but a joke. The 2004 CD that spawned the ballet is very personal — he recites his own poetry against a background of jazzy riffs as he did on his old Priceline.com commercials. Shatner shlepped all the way to Wisconsin in the thick of last winter to see the dancing of choreographer Margo Sappington.

So happens the performance was taped by a production company. Five Star is using that footage and interspersed it with Shatner interviews.

“He’s the first to admit he can’t sing,” says Parsons. “But he co-wrote most of the lyrics about his artistic journey from Capt. Kirk, which had him typecast for 20 years, to Boston Legal.”

I’m told the company wants to offer it up to ABC first, then go to the likes of HBO.

Want more Shatner?

How about a movie that will resonate in South County? Some scenes for The Shiva Crashers are expected to be shot in Florida, also starting in late spring. The flick, directed by Shatner, tells the story of two film business hopefuls who crash a famous producer’s shiva in order to network with industry bigs.

“Bill is going to call in every favor from big names for the film,” said Zappone. “He’s been talking to Ben Stiller, Jay Leno and Howard Stern.”