WATERVILLE, Maine - Grabbing a cab in New York City may be a whole lot easier, thanks to Danny Glover.

The actor, who played Mel Gibson’s sidekick in the “Lethal Weapon” movies, complained in 1999 to the city’s taxi commission that cabbies passed him by because he’s black.

“Most black men I meet in New York City thank me because now they can get a cab,” Glover told about 300 Colby College students.

Speaking at the private college on Saturday to help celebrate diversity, Glover told students to reject divisive social, ethnic and religious stereotypes and look at the world in a new way.

“Diversity is about honoring and celebrating our interdependence, our basic humanness,” he said. “It’s the very best of who we are.”

Comedian stars in new police show

NEW YORK - Denis Leary, the often foul-mouthed comedian, has a new perspective on working blue: He’s got a new cop show.

In “The Job,” Leary plays a boozing, cheating, chain-smoking detective who sometimes catches the bad guys - and sometimes doesn’t.

Leary, who created the show with Peter Tolan, a writer for “The Larry Sanders Show,” got the idea after watching real New York City detectives at work.

“When I first started going out with these guys, I was more interested in the official ins and outs,” the actor said.

“But what struck me after all the going in and out of the precinct was that these guys were hilarious: the relationship stuff, the jealousies, the attraction, the protective thing. We got to see the stuff you don’t see cops on TV do.”

“The Job” premieres Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.

Singers Grant, Gill welcome new baby

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Singer Amy Grant gave birth to a baby girl early Monday. The child is her fourth and the first with her husband and country singer Vince Gill.

Grant gave birth at 12:36 a.m. in a Nashville hospital, Gill’s spokeswoman Allison Auerbach said. The child weighs 7 pounds and 9 ounces and is 19 1/4 inches.

Gill and Grant were married on March 10, 2000.