SMALL FACES: The Cure will be making...

SMALL FACES: The Cure will be making its pay-per-view TV debut on Dec. 5 with a 100-minute, documentary-style program combining on-and-off-stage looks at the band. Among the performances are three new songs that may be on the Cure’s next album, which is being recorded in England and planned for release next April. . . . Never ones to pass up a good current events opportunity, the clever folks at Virgin Records are certainly going to catch radio programmers’ attention with their ad for Lenny Kravitz’s new single, “Stand By My Woman.” The ad, which is running in trade publications, features a photo of Kravitz between shots of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and former assistant/accuser Anita Hill. The tag line: “The time is right for a ballad that draws immediate female (phone requests) and response.” . . .

Fresh from a brutal lambasting in Spy magazine that ridiculed the label for a lack of success since its start-up in January, 1990, Hollywood Records has taken another hit. Amid rumors of pressure from Elektra Records, its distributor, Disney-owned Hollywood has decided not to release the debut album from Compton rapper Hi-C due to the recording’s explicit sexual and violent content. That could be a big loss because Hi-C’s single, “I’m Not Your Puppet,” has been doing well on the rap charts. No comment from the parties involved, save for a sketchy official statement from Hollywood calling the album “lyrically inappropriate” for the label. But the label is going to release a provocative, saucy video for the song “Dis-moi, Dis-moi” from Canadian dance-pop performer Mitsou in November. Her U.S. debut album is due in February.