No tomb raiders for this Tut

In the 1991 movie “L.A. Story,” Steve Martin, daffy in love, roller-skated through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. And with “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” having opened at the museum last week, one can’t help but envision Martin once again skating through the galleries, only this time dressed in ancient Egyptian garb and singing that wild and crazy tune born on “Saturday Night Live” during Tut’s last U.S. visit: “King Tut.” (“Now, when I die / Don’t think that I’m a nut / Don’t want no fancy funeral / just one like ole King Tut ...”)

No plans, however, have been announced for Martin to repeat his skating performance, singing or otherwise, amid the exhibition, which marks the first time treasures from King Tut’s tomb have stopped on these shores since that landmark museum tour, “Treasures of Tutankhamen,” in the late 1970s. And, organizers say, they have not been approached by any Hollywood film or TV producers wanting to use LACMA galleries as a location for, say, another installment of “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.”

Tim Leiweke, president of Tut II exhibition backer AEG, reports that the company has been approached by half a dozen producers interested in filming “reality features” documenting the delivery and installation of the treasures. But he says the promoters didn’t want modern-day tomb raiders to learn too much about how to enter and exit the museum after hours.

“They wanted to film it [the exhibition] being shipped, up through the opening, behind the scenes -- but we had to turn them down for security reasons,” he says.

“Tut” representatives confirm, however, that KCBS (Channel 2) was allowed into LACMA’s treasure-filled halls to shoot for a June 26 special -- and the exhibition’s national curator, David Silverman, served as script consultant.

“I feel that I’ve arrived in Hollywood,” he jokes.

Diane Haithman