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MOVIES

A Few Good Winners: The MTV generation gave the military drama “A Few Good Men” best movie honors at the 1993 MTV Movie Awards hosted by Eddie Murphy on Saturday night at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank. Best male performance went to Denzel Washington for “Malcolm X,” and Sharon Stone took best female performance for “Basic Instinct.” The best on-screen duo winners were Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in “Lethal Weapon,” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” from “The Bodyguard” won for best song. In MTV-esque categories: best kiss went to Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater for their smooch in “Untamed Heart” (Tomei also won the breakthrough performance award for her role in “My Cousin Vinny”), and best villain went to Jennifer Jason Leigh for “Single White Female.” The awards show airs on MTV Wednesday at 9 p.m.

New York Cut: Robert Altman’s upcoming movie “Short Cuts” is taking a direct route to the 31st New York Film Festival; the film opens the Lincoln Center festival on Oct. 1. Based on the short stories of the late Raymond Carver, the movie is an ensemble piece about the lives of people in suburban Southern California--a different world from the slice of Southern California in Altman’s “The Player.” A sampling of the cast, which is packed with notable actors as well as figures from the music world: Anne Archer, Bruce Davison, Robert Downey Jr., Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Andie MacDowell, Matthew Modine, Tim Robbins, Madeline Stowe, Lili Taylor, Lily Tomlin, Huey Lewis and Lyle Lovett. Altman last opened the festival in 1978 with “A Wedding.” The festival ends Oct. 17.

Crystal Clear: Julie Andrews, Michelle Pfeiffer and USA Network President Kay Koplovitz will receive top honors at the 1993 Women in Film Crystal Awards on Friday at the Beverly Hilton. In addition, actor Mike Farrell will receive the Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award, Barbara Kopple will receive the Dorothy Arzner Special Recognition for Directing Award and Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation, will receive the Woman of Courage Award.

TELEVISION

Woodruff on CNN: Today’s the first day on the new job for Judy Woodruff. The former Washington correspondent for PBS’s “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” will begin co-anchoring two daily CNN newscasts--”Inside Politics” with Bernard Shaw and the early-evening newscast, “The World Today,” with Frank Sesno. CNN also plans to have Woodruff co-anchor special-events and political coverage. In August, she’ll host a documentary on questionable medical treatments.

Playing Games: The TV game show version of “Trivial Pursuit” starts today at noon on the Family Channel. Dubbed “The Interactive Game,” it will let viewers play along at home via telephone during special “Playbreaks.” Wink Martindale hosts.

Good Sports: ESPN is expected to announce today that it will be starting a second all-sports cable television network. ESPN 2 will rely on a heavy dose of sports news shows and events that appeal to a younger audience, such as professional beach volleyball.

POP/ROCK

Blame It On the Rain: Rock band Porno for Pyros postponed its Saturday concert at the Cal State Dominguez Hills Olympic Velodrome when rain flooded the stage. The show was scheduled to go on Sunday night.

Blvd. Raps: Rapper M. C. Blvd. will talk about peace and hope on KPWR/Power 106-FM’s “From the Steets” show tonight from 10 p.m. to midnight. The L.A.-based Latino rap artist knows his subject well--a former gang member, he turned his life around, went to college and began a successful music career. Blvd. is featured on the newly released album “Lowrider Soundtrack Volume V.”

AWARDS

Earthy Awards: Sting, Don Henley, Robert Redford, Ted Turner and Ted Danson are among those who will be honored Thursday at the First Annual Earth Day International Awards at CBS studios in L.A. The awards ceremony, sponsored by Earth Day International (which links environmental groups from all over the world) and held a year after the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, recognizes people committed to saving the environment. Organizers say they hope that future ceremonies will be televised.