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TELEVISION

Weekend of Quake Relief: Gloria Estefan, Cachao and Andy Garcia are among the celebrities slated for “Telemaraton de la Hermandad” (the Brotherhood Telethon), a live event at the Pico Rivera Sports Arena on Saturday, from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. The telethon airs live on Spanish-language stations KMEX-TV Channel 34 and KLAX-FM (97.9), the event’s sponsors. Another Spanish-language station, KVEA-TV Channel 52, airs a previously announced 14-hour live telethon 10 a.m. to midnight on Sunday, with celebrities including Vikki Carr, Celia Cruz and Lisa Lopez.

Holding Up the Beef: A judge has temporarily barred CBS News from broadcasting a hidden-camera videotape made inside a South Dakota meatpacking plant. The network planned to use the tape of the Federal Beef Processors Inc. plant on Wednesday’s “48 Hours” in a story about the threat of meat contamination by E. coli bacteria. The tape included video of rotten meat in the plant’s de-boning room, according to court documents. CBS said the ban would harm the network’s First Amendment rights and the public’s right to know about contaminated meat, but Circuit Judge Jeff Davis banned the tape until he could rule on Federal Beef’s claim that the network got the video improperly (a Federal Beef employee allegedly sneaked a hidden camera into the plant). The judge said broadcasting the tape could harm the local economy in ways that could not be repaired through a lawsuit.

MOVIES

‘Star of the Century’: Harrison Ford has a new distinction--he will be named the “Box Office Star of the Century” at the annual NATO/ShoWest exhibitors conference in Las Vegas next month. The award recognizes Ford as the “all-time box-office champion,” with his movies accounting for more than $2 billion in domestic theatrical grosses. Ford starred in seven of the 20 all-time highest-grossing films, including the “Star Wars” trilogy, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and its subsequent “Indiana Jones” sequels, and “The Fugitive.”

Documentary Examines Riots: “The Fire This Time,” a feature-length documentary about the 1992 L.A. riots, will have three Los Angeles screenings this month, followed by a March 5 screening at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The film, which drew notice at last week’s Sundance Festival, examines the riots from a historical perspective, and includes interviews with Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s widow; former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young and Bobby Lavender, who started the Bloods gang. The L.A. screenings are Saturday at the American Film Institute, Feb. 12 at the Directors Guild and Feb. 18 at UCLA’s Melnitz Hall.

POP/ROCK

Pink Floyd Tour Planned: The rock band Pink Floyd announced plans Thursday for its first North American tour since 1987, including shows April 14 at San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium and April 16 at the Rose Bowl. Tickets for both shows go on sale Feb. 12. There haven’t been any recent lineup changes in the band, which has an album due in the spring. Since the departure of Roger Waters, singer-guitarist David Gilmour has been its leader, working with Nick Mason and Rick Wright. The four-month tour, beginning March 30 in Miami, features stadium dates in more than 40 cities.

THE ARTS

LACLO Season: Los Angeles Civic Light Opera has packaged a 1994 season consisting of Lynn Redgrave in “Shakespeare for My Father” at the Henry Fonda Theatre (opening April 19 for at least three weeks), the previously announced “The Who’s Tommy” at Universal Amphitheatre in July, “The Sound of Music” with Marie Osmond and Laurence Guittard at the Pantages Theatre in August, and the touring version of Broadway’s “She Loves Me” revival at the Wilshire Theatre in December.

Flutist Criticized for Reprimand: Well-known flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal is drawing criticism for interrupting his recent Kennedy Center concert mid-piece to reprimand a child he found disruptive. “If she’s going to fidget, you’ll have to take her out of here,” Rampal said during Saturday’s performance. The 9-year-old’s mother was furious. “Even if my child was acting horribly, I don’t think he’d have the right to treat her so rudely,” said Francine Gugerty of Bethesda, Md., whose daughter Carly burst into tears and cried for the rest of the concert. Rampal tried to explain his actions to the audience, saying, “I’m sorry, but this has been going on since the beginning of the concert. I like children, but they do get bored, and at a concert, we like to give the best of ourselves.” Still, Douglas Wheeler, managing director of the Washington Performing Arts Society, which presented the classical music concert and offered reduced-price tickets for children, wasn’t pleased. “We wouldn’t offer tickets at $5 each if we didn’t want children to come,” he said.

QUICK TAKES

“How to Protect Your Kids,” a special episode of “The Crusaders” focusing on ways to protect children from dangers lurking in the nation’s streets, airs on KNBC-TV Channel 4 Saturday at 7 p.m. . . . David Letterman returns to his old time slot--briefly--to guest on NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” on Feb. 21. . . .Following its success as the highest box-office-grossing film ever, Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” was named the Best Marketed Motion Picture of 1993 by the Film Information Council.

--SHAUNA SNOW