TELEVISIONVideo Entry: Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” which...

TELEVISION

Video Entry: Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” which won seven Oscars this year--including best picture and best director--is coming to home video sooner than expected: Aug. 17 on MCA/Universal. Speculation in the industry had been that it wouldn’t be out until the end of the year. Rather than being priced for the sales market, as some had predicted, the tape will be a rental.

* Father’s Day Fare: Cable’s Comedy Central will feature seven hours of highlights from the Canadian comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall during its annual “Father’s Day With the Kids” marathon, running Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. . . .From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., cable’s Cartoon Network will spotlight fathers Fred Flintstone, Harry Boyle and George Jetson on “Greatest Toon Dads Ever!,” which will alternate episodes of “The Flintstones,” “Wait Till Your Father Gets Home” and “The Jetsons” in an effort to “demonstrate the past, present and future of fatherhood.”

* Don’t Go, Dave: Sioux City, Iowa, officials are apparently upset that David Letterman is reportedly considering another “home office.” When no local station picked up Letterman’s show after it switched from NBC to CBS last August, the “Late Show” host named Sioux City his fictitious home office, the place where his Top 10 list originates. City officials renamed their abandoned and crumbling City Hall building the Home Office, complete with a sign and reserved parking space for Letterman. Local companies sent him everything from jeans to honey. “We’ve made David Letterman,” said City Manager Hank Sinda. “Obviously, he wouldn’t be as big as he is without Sioux City.”

POP/ROCK

Back Again: Expected next week, 25 years after it was a minor hit for Michael Jackson and his brothers, is a re-release of “Big Boy,” the long-lost song that marked Michael Jackson’s recording debut. Ben Brown, the owner of Steeltown Records, for which the Jacksons recorded several songs before becoming superstars for Motown, said he recently uncovered the original tapes for “Big Boy” in the pantry of his kitchen. Brown, who has re-mastered the song, said Jackson was about 9 years old when the song was recorded, although he was about 10 when it was released in 1968.

THE ARTS

Streisand Gifts: Charitable donations resulting from Barbra Streisand’s current concert tour are more than $10.2 million, according to the singer’s publicist. He said Streisand donated $3.5 million to charity from her two New Year’s concerts at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, and $3 million from her four-concert engagement at Wembley Arena, outside London, in April. The singer also donated $25,000 each for musical education to schools in each of the areas where she performed, including Spurgeon Intermediate School in Santa Ana and her Brooklyn high school, Erasmus Hall High. (Streisand’s label, Sony Music, matched each school donation.) The additional monies went to 25 charities that were allowed to sell $1,000 tickets to Streisand’s concerts and keep $650 from each sale, he said.

ART

Breaking Ground: San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art is moving ahead with a $7-million renovation and expansion of its historic La Jolla facility. Project architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown will present their plans at a public groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m. July 14. In addition, Venturi will deliver a lecture July 13 on the work of California modernist Irving Gill, who designed the original 53-year-old museum building. Brown will talk about architects’ social and public concerns on July 15. Both lectures are scheduled for 7 p.m. at the museum’s auditorium. The expansion is expected to be complete in early 1996. Meanwhile, the museum’s exhibition program continues at its year-old downtown San Diego outpost.

QUICK TAKES

KABC-TV Channel 7 has named veteran news director Cheryl Kunin Fair to replace fired news director Roger Bell. Fair, managing editor in charge of coverage and production at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, will start Monday, officials said . . . Turner Classic Movies runs six of “The Thin Man” movies today, starting with MGM’s first 1934 film at 4 p.m. . . .Replacing the originally announced Sidney Weiss in a Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber, American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers will make her Hollywood Bowl debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, July 7 in the Cahuenga Pass showplace . . . Francis Ford Coppola receives the UCLA Medal and Peter Guber is commencement speaker at Sunday’s UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduation ceremonies. . . . Gloria Estefan and husband Emilio expect a baby girl in December.. . . British actor John Gielgud, American sculptor Richard Serra, Indian architect Charles Correa, French painter Zao Wou-ki and French composer Henri Dutilleux will each receive $150,000 as winners of the Japan Art Assn.’s prestigious 1994 Praemium Imperiale Awards. . . . Dancer Trisha Brown receives the 1994 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award and a $25,000 award on Sunday in Durham, N.C.