ARTMuseum Reopening: Los Angeles’ Craft & Folk...

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Museum Reopening: Los Angeles’ Craft & Folk Art Museum, which has been closed since its temporary location in the May Co. closed nearly three years ago, will reopen May 14 in a new space on its original site at 5800 Wilshire Blvd. The new facility, designed by Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates, will more than double the museum’s original size with 25,000 square feet of exhibition, educational and administrative space. The original building will be joined with a building adjacent a central courtyard. The opening exhibitions will be “Points of View: Collectors and Collecting,” featuring collections of 20th-Century craft and folk art, and “Museum for a New Century,” conveying the museum’s history as well as planned additional expansions.

MOVIES

Awards, MTV Style: Tom Cruise, Andy Garcia, Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves and Christian Slater will vie for “Most Desirable Male” while Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Demi Moore and Sharon Stone will compete for “Most Desirable Female,” at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards, which will tape at Burbank’s Warner Bros. Studios on June 10, then air on the cable channel on June 15. Nominees, chosen through a national poll of MTV viewers, were announced Wednesday in 13 categories, including best villain, break-through performance, on-screen duo, action sequence, dance sequence and best kiss. MTV viewers can vote on the winners through America Online’s MTV on-line area, or by calling a 900 number that will be announced during the “MTV Movie Awards Nomination Special,” premiering Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. Oh, and the nominees for best movie: “The Crow,” “Forrest Gump,” “Interview With the Vampire,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Speed.”

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Winning Role: Wanna-be movie stars can vie for a walk-on role in a future Trimark Pictures feature through an on-line contest being held for subscribers to America Online, Compuserve, Delphi and eWorld computer services. In the contest, a promotion for the upcoming movie “Swimming With Sharks,” which tells the story of a Hollywood production assistant, on-line users will be asked to tell their own story of a “boss from hell.” Entries will be judged on creativity, humor and originality, and must be entered by May 15. Starting Sunday, the participating on-line systems will instruct users on how to access the contest.

STAGE

Tony Award Plans: Glenn Close, Gregory Hines and Nathan Lane will host the 1995 Tony Awards, to be broadcast June 4 on CBS. The awards will be taped that same night on the set of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre. Nominations will be announced May 8.

TELEVISION

More PBS Debate: Public broadcasting’s educational series and in-home classes “would be the first to go” in a commercialized environment, PBS president Ervin Duggan told a New York audience at the International Radio and Television Society this week. Duggan said that Capitol Hill efforts to end federal funding of public broadcasting would lead to the “forced commercialization” of the network, and said that PBS’ opponents “do not grasp that the main purpose of public television is to do programming that is not likely to succeed commercially.” Under a commercialized system, Duggan said, “Sesame Street’s” Big Bird, “if he survives at all, would be forced to fly to an older, more commercial target audience.”

Calling All Trekkers: The United Paramount Network is asking viewers of “Star Trek: Voyager” to send in questions about the show, with those who submit “the most interesting questions” being invited to pose them on-camera. The Q & A’s will be broadcast as a series of promos on the network in May. Questions can be sent through the mail (UPN, “Voyager Q & A,” 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038-3197) or via the Internet World Wide Web: https://voyager.paramount.com

QUICK TAKES

Seven Walt Disney animated features, including “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Aladdin,” “Robin Hood” and “Mickey and the Beanstalk” will be available on video in dubbed Spanish-language versions for the first time in the United States starting Friday. . . . Brian (Kato) Kaelin will guest on the May 17 episode of ABC’s “Roseanne”. . . . Internet users visiting Universal Studios Hollywood now won’t have to wait in line to go on Back to the Future . . . the Ride, thanks to a new “pre-boarding pass” system offered through the Institute of Future Technology, which is located on the MCA/Universal Cyberwalk site at https://www.mca.com . . . . Members of the Los Angeles Police Department will take on their New York counterparts on Saturday’s “American Gladiators,” airing at 4 p.m. on KCAL-TV Channel 9.