NAMES & FACES

A-Rod Returns to Daddy Duty

For the first time since his wife, Cynthia, filed for divorce Monday, Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez spent time with their 3-year-old daughter, Natasha, in Toronto yesterday.

Rodriguez, 32, is in Toronto for the Yankees' three-game series against the Blue Jays. Cynthia's divorce lawyer, Earle Lilly, told the New York Post on Thursday that the couple's other daughter, 11-week-old Ella, was too young to make the trip from Miami, where Cynthia and the children relocated from New York after the split.

"The parties are working out appropriate arrangements for the children," Lilly told the Post. "At this point, there are no child issues that the parties have not amicably worked out, or are working out."

Cynthia, 35, cited her husband's "extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct" in divorce papers filed in Miami. On Wednesday, she told the Post's Cindy Adams that Natasha had been asking for her father, saying, "I miss my daddy."

Musical Chairs at Kennedy Center

Tiki Davies, the Washington theater maven and director of the Kennedy Center's press office, announced yesterday that she will retire Sept. 5 from the post she's held for 30 years.

Davies told us her first project will be preparing the final book written by her father, John Paton Davies Jr., for publication. It's an autobiography he worked on before his death in 1999. Davies, a Medal of Freedom recipient, was one of the State Department's "China hands," foreign service officers with expertise on China who were targeted by Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1940s and '50s.

Senior Kennedy Center press rep John Dow will step up to fill Davies's shoes.

Winehouse Is Mixing It Up, Again

Has rehab stirred up Amy Winehouse's violent side? So it would seem from a bevy of recent reports that Winehouse, 24, has allegedly roughed up fans and even her bodyguard, who was photographed on the receiving end of a smack in the face from his famous charge outside Winehouse's London home Tuesday night.

According to People magazine, which tallies such things, the incident was the second of its kind in a week, and the pop star's fourth in two weeks. Earlier this week, she allegedly attacked a person inside a pub and another outside her home. On June 28, Winehouse allegedly scuffled with a fellow attendee of the Glastonbury music festival. (Her rep has not commented on the reports.)

Winehouse, who has been receiving treatment for substance abuse, now faces the ire of her neighbors, who have complained to British media about the constant swarm of paparazzi near the $1.4 million property the singer rents. One neighbor told the Daily Mirror that Winehouse is "nothing but trouble, and every night she is partying. If she's not inviting friends around to live it up, she is starting fights."

End Notes

Split: "The Devil Wears Prada" actress Emily Blunt, 25, and singer Michael Bublé, 32, have broken off their three-year relationship, People reports. The pair met in 2005 and had shared a home in Vancouver, B.C.

Spotted: Cheech Marin, making the start-the-game announcement Thursday night at Nationals Park. Marin, in town to promote his new film, "The Perfect Game," sat behind home plate in a Nats cap and signed baseballs for fans during the game.

Quoted: "She was always my hero when I was growing up. . . . I feel like I have to be the mother now." -- Brooke Hogan, daughter of former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and sister to the incarcerated Nick Hogan, speaking to "Access Hollywood" on her strained relationship with her mother, Linda, 48, who is dating a 19-year-old former classmate of Brooke's. The elder Hogans, known for their family's VH1 reality show, "Hogan Knows Best," have been split since November, when Linda filed for divorce.

-- Marissa Newhall, from staff, wire and Web reports