PEOPLE WATCHWedding Bells: Actor Liam Neeson, 42,...

PEOPLE WATCH

Wedding Bells: Actor Liam Neeson, 42, and actress Natasha Richardson, 31, who met while performing Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” on Broadway, were married Sunday in a private ceremony at their country home in Upstate New York. About 70 guests attended, including the bride’s mother, Vanessa Redgrave; Steven Spielberg and wife Kate Capshaw; Mia Farrow; Emma Thompson, and director Ron Shelton.

THE ARTS

Expanding Tanglewood: The popular Tanglewood festival of classical music in Lenox, Mass., which began 60 years ago on a makeshift stage in the horse ring of a farm, will dedicate its new concert hall and larger campus on Thursday. The $9.7-million concert hall will anchor the neighboring 120-acre campus purchased in 1986. Inside the five-story hall’s airy interior, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianists Peter Serkin and Leon Fleisher will join in a program of music by Bach, Beethoven, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Tanglewood managers, reaching back to the festival’s past and celebrating its present, named the new campus after Bernstein and the hall after Seiji Ozawa. Bernstein often taught and conducted at Tanglewood while Ozawa leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which makes its summer home at Tanglewood.

* Statue Vandalized: The missing left arm of a landmark Madrid statue, ripped off by soccer fans during wild celebrations of Spain’s weekend World Cup victory, was found Monday in a plastic bag laying on a city street. Police said about 2,500 soccer fans had swarmed around the 212-year-old statue of the goddess Cibeles, which dominates a fountain in the tree-lined Paseo de la Castellana, after Spain beat Switzerland on Saturday to advance to the World Cup quarterfinals. There was no word from conservators Monday on whether the statue could be repaired.

p Carrying On: The show must go on, even when the lead baritone has collapsed on opening night and his understudy has been sent home. Singer Anthony Michaels-Moore fell ill after the first act of Jules Massenet’s “Manon” at London’s Royal Opera House on Saturday night, and with no replacement singer to go on stage, conductor David Syrus finally filled the gap by singing from the wings, while producer Stuart Maunder mimed on stage. “Under the circumstances, the audience reacted very well. The solution was hardly ideal, but it saved the show from being a disaster,” said Helen Anderson, an opera house spokeswoman. None of the audience, which paid up to $150 for tickets, asked for a refund.

* Bowl Changes: Guitarist Mundell Lowe will appear at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, on a bill that features fellow guitarists George Benson and Lee Ritenour in a tribute to the late Joe Pass. Lowe replaces Charlie Byrd, who canceled his appearance because of scheduling conflicts. Meanwhile, Patti Austin will replace Chaka Khan on Sunday at JVC Jazz at the Bowl. Khan also withdrew because of a scheduling conflict.

TELEVISION

New Season Preview: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will host a daylong preview of new fall programming from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and PBS on July 16 at the Academy Plaza Theatre in North Hollywood. Included will be excerpts, sample scenes and preview shows, which will be introduced by program executives from each participating network. The event, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., costs $10. Reservations are required.

RADIO

C-SPAN Simulcasts: Several Washington-based talk radio shows will be simulcast live on C-SPAN this week as part of the cable TV station’s “Talk Radio Week.” The programming starts at 7 this morning with the four-hour “G. Gordon Liddy Show.” Up to three programs will be featured each day, including the “Pat Buchanan and Company” show on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” hosted by Ray Suarez, on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

* Move Over, Limbaugh: There seems to be a rush of politicians to talk radio. A lieutenant governor, Bob Kustra (R-Ill.), has quit his job in the state capitol to become a host on Chicago radio station WLS-AM. Kustra, 51, said he became interested in broadcasting three years ago as host of the monthly “Ask the Lieutenant Governor” show on WLS. “The bug bit, to put it quite simply,” he said. Kustra made $72,775 a year as lieutenant governor. His new salary wasn’t disclosed, but talk-show hosts in urban markets can easily make six figures.

QUICK TAKES

Charlton Heston will receive the Friars Club’s Lifetime Achievement Award on July 29 at a gala hosted by Friars Abbot Steve Allen at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. . . . Singer-actress Diana Ross will receive the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill’s Public Education Through the Media Award during the group’s annual convention in Texas on Friday. The award recognizes Ross’ portrayal of a woman recovering from mental illness in last season’s ABC-TV movie “Out of Darkness.”