POP/ROCK - July 1, 1993

Brooks’ Boycott: Garth Brooks is the first major recording artist to declare he won’t release his future CDs to stores that sell used discs unless royalties on albums are paid to artists and writers. “I was very, very angry when I heard stores were going to start selling used CDs,” Brooks, whose next album is due in August, said Wednesday from Nashville. It’s the latest step in the escalating war over the sale of recycled music. Record manufacturers oppose used-CD sales on the grounds the sales will reduce purchases of new products. The Torrance-based Wherehouse records chain said this week it will sell recycled music at 250 of its 315 outlets.

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Disappointing: Billy Ray Cyrus, whose 1992 debut album sold more than 7 million copies thanks to its “Achy Breaky Heart” single, is off to a disappointing start with his follow-up collection. His “It Won’t Be the Last” sold an estimated 64,000 copies in its first week, good enough for No. 1 on the country sales chart that will be published Saturday in Billboard magazine, but only No. 6 on the more significant pop chart. Janet Jackson’s “janet.” topped the pop chart for the fifth straight week.

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A Challenge: Ike Turner’s manager has offered Tina Turner $3.5 million to appear in an “Ike versus Tina musical duel.” The offer came during a noisy news conference Tuesday in New York in which Ike Turner continued his efforts to refute his portrayal in the Tina Turner bio-film “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”

LEGAL FILE

Public Property: A People magazine photographer can have film of singer Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts that was confiscated by security guards at Lovett’s concert the day the couple got married, an Indiana judge has ruled. The magazine sued after seven rolls of film were confiscated from Steve Kagan, who photographed the newly married couple while they were on stage at the concert Sunday. Lovett’s attorney argued that Lovett has the right to control the use of his image and therefore owns the film. But the judge said the newsworthiness of the photos outweighed any interest Lovett and Roberts might have in protecting their privacy.

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Houston Sues: Whitney Houston has slapped the New York Post with a $60-million lawsuit for Monday’s story saying she overdosed on diet pills. The Post printed a retraction Wednesday, and one of the reporters who wrote the story apologized on local radio. A spokesman for the Post said lawyers for the newspaper were reviewing the lawsuit and had no comment. But today’s Post said: “Ms. Houston did not suffer an overdose of any pills and does not take diet pills. She was not admitted to Miami’s Mt. Sinai Hospital (or any other hospital), and was not diagnosed with any heart irregularities.”

TELEVISION

New on ABC: ABC will add four new series to its 1993-94 mid-season schedule, including “The Critic,” an animated series from the producers of “The Simpsons” featuring Jon Lovitz (“Saturday Night Live”) as a New York film critic with his own TV show. Also new will be “Sister, Sister,” a situation comedy about identical twin sisters separated at birth and reunited 13 years later; “The Byrds of Paradise,” a Steven Bochco drama set in Hawaii; and “Birdland,” a drama starring Brian Dennehy as the chief psychiatrist at a hospital. . . . “Street Match,” a new dating series that will bring together two strangers and follow them on their first date, premieres on ABC July 28 at 8:30 p.m. “Another World” daytime star Ricky Paull Goldin will host.

THE ARTS

Washington News: The House Education and Labor Committee voted Tuesday to keep the National Endowment for the Arts alive for two more years, fending off an effort to abolish the agency along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum Services. Rep. Richard Armey (R-Texas) had sought to have the agencies’ $350 million in funding diverted to the Head Start education program. The measure must now face a full House vote. . . . The House has approved $3 million to establish a National African-American Museum within Washington’s Smithsonian Institution. The bill, approved without dissent in the House, goes to the Senate.

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Taking the Helm: Neil J. Hoffman, president of California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, has been named president of the Otis School of Art and Design. Hoffman, who served as Otis’ founding dean and chief operating officer in 1979 when the college merged with Parsons School of Design, will assume his new position on Aug. 1. He succeeds Roger Workman, who took administrative leave in May.

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Reports Spring Leak: Despite reports that a leaky swimming pool had to be eliminated from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s London production of “Sunset Boulevard,” which started previews this week, Peter Brown, Lloyd Webber’s New York agent, assures that there never was an onstage swimming pool in the new musical. Instead, the show uses a scrim to create the underwater effect for the famous murder scene. The show is scheduled to open Dec. 2 at the Shubert Theatre in Century City, also without a pool.