POP/ROCKStreisand Dates Confirmed: It’s official. Barbra Streisand...

POP/ROCK

Streisand Dates Confirmed: It’s official. Barbra Streisand is confirmed for two New Year’s concerts at Las Vegas’ new MGM Grand Resort. Although MGM won’t comment on the specifics of the deal, previous reports have said the appearances could bring Streisand as much as $20 million. The Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 shows will be Streisand’s first paid concert appearances in 27 years, and will inaugurate the resort’s 15,000-seat Garden Theater. The $1-billion resort, which features a 5,005-room hotel and casino along with a 33-acre theme park, opens Dec. 18. Ticket prices range from $100 to $1,000 and go on sale Sunday, by phone only via (800) 929-1111 or (702) 891-7777. . . . Meanwhile, Streisand joins another Babs when Barbara Walters interviews her Nov. 19 on ABC’s “20/20.”

TELEVISION

Clinton Meets the Press: President Clinton will be the sole guest on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” as the longest-running program on television marks its 46th year. Moderator Tim Russert and anchor Tom Brokaw, in lieu of the usual panel of print journalists, will conduct the live interview from the White House. The appearance will be Clinton’s first as sitting President. Jimmy Carter was the last President to be on the NBC program, when he announced the boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980.

Accord Reached: KABC-TV Channel 7 avoided a challenge to its broadcast license by agreeing Monday to hire more Latinos, but the National Hispanic Media Coalition challenged the FCC license renewal applications of two other local stations--KCAL-TV Channel 9 and L.A. Unified School District-owned KLCS-TV Channel 58--on the grounds that they do not employ enough Latinos. Under terms of its agreement, KABC will hire a Latino director of affirmative action, broadcast a weekly public affairs series about the Latino community starting next year, and increase its coverage of Latino issues on regular news broadcasts.

Ruttan to Return: Susan Ruttan, who left NBC’s “L.A. Law” after seven seasons as secretary Roxanne Melman, will return as a guest star on the Dec. 16 episode. Roxanne returns with her newborn daughter, announcing that she has remarried an ex-husband and wants her daughter’s biological father, attorney Tommy Mullaney (John Spencer), to sign papers making her husband the legal adoptive father. When Mullaney balks, she asks Arnie Becker (Corbin Bernsen) to begin legal proceedings.

MOVIES

Coming Fare: John Hughes is set to write and produce a remake of the 1947 holiday classic “Miracle on 34th Street” for 20th Century Fox. The film, which is said to “bring this classic into the ‘90s,” is scheduled for a Christmas ’94 release. . . . Jodie Foster’s Egg Pictures is teaming with Fox and Polygram Filmed Entertainment to produce “Nell,” the story of a woman raised in a remote cabin and unused to modern ways, based on Mark Handley’s play “Idioglossia.” Foster will star in what she called her “most provocative, most challenging role to date.” Michael Apted (“Gorillas in the Mist”) will direct.

New Fest: On the heels of mixed reviews for the first Hamptons Film Festival, another new film festival gets under way tonight in South Carolina. The five-day Charleston International Film Festival--WorldFest Charleston--opens with the Samuel Goldwyn Co.’s period film “The Summer House,” followed by several world and U.S. premieres. In addition, the festival will present a lifetime achievement award to Samuel Bronston, producer of the original “El Cid,” in conjunction with a screening of the restored version of the 1961 Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren film. That screening will serve as a special benefit for another Charleston event--the troubled Spoleto Arts Festival. . . . Closer to home, the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival debuts Thursday, also featuring a screening of the restored “El Cid.”

QUICK TAKES

U2’s Bono, Janet Jackson, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, k.d. lang, Howard Stern, Winona Ryder, Pete Townshend, and rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg are among the influential celebrities to be interviewed on “Rolling Stone ‘93: The Year in Review,” a one-hour special airing on Fox-TV Dec. 14. . . . Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey has donated $1 million to Chicago’s Providence-St. Mel High School, which has maintained a 100% college acceptance rate for its seniors despite being located in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. . . . Film star Chuck Norris and rap artist M.C. Lyte will join Saturday morning’s ABC News special about children and violence. The 90-minute program features 50 children from around the country whose lives have been affected by violence.