POP/ROCKSelena Album Due: The English-language album on...

POP/ROCK

Selena Album Due: The English-language album on which tejano music star Selena was working when she was killed will be a central element of a new bilingual album that will be released July 18. “Dreaming of You,” a 13-song collection of Selena’s work, will be released by EMI Records and EMI Latin. It will include four new English tracks, one previously recorded and remixed English track, two new English-Spanish duets (one with David Byrne and one with the Barrio Boyzz), two Spanish-language tracks recorded for the film “Don Juan DeMarco” and several hits from previous albums. “Selena was working to release her first English-language album,” said Davitt Sigerson, president and CEO of EMI Records. “This project represents that music. It will spread her extraordinary creative vision from the Latino- tejano community where she was already a superstar.” The 23-year-old Grammy winner was shot to death March 31 in Corpus Christi, Tex. Her personal assistant, Yolanda Saldivar, has pleaded innocent to murder.

TELEVISION

Channel 7 Probes Its Error: KABC Channel 7 on Monday followed its movie on the Tailhook incident, “She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal,” with a heavily promoted “interview” with Lt. Paula Coughlin, the principal whistle-blower in the controversy and the main character in the film. Only the interview that aired was not with Coughlin, but another Tailhook victim, Wendy Delane. News director Sheryl Fair called the snafu “a serious foul-up. It’s safe to say we are conducting a major investigation into this.” Dozens of calls came into the station pointing out the error. The station was to make a correction during the 11 p.m. news Tuesday. “These kinds of things don’t make me happy at all, and it will not happen again,” said Fair. The real-life Coughlin does not give interviews to the media.

ART

Missing Leaves: Two pages stolen from a 14th-Century manuscript in the Vatican Library ended up in the hands of an Ohio State University art history professor. The U.S. Customs Service confirmed Tuesday it is investigating how the manuscript leaves, valued at $500,000, made their way from Rome to Akron. The leaves are missing from a manuscript once owned by Francesco Petrarch, a poet many consider the father of the Italian Renaissance. Professor Anthony Melnikas had asked Bruce Ferrini, a rare book dealer in Akron, to sell the handwritten, illustrated pages for him. Ferrini told the New York Times that he became suspicious when he received the delicate artifacts in a cheap plastic envelope, separated only by a piece of paper. He said Melnikas also gave conflicting accounts of how he obtained the leaves. The Times reported Tuesday that Melnikas has been questioned by customs officials, but had not been charged with any offense. Melnikas, 68, dismissed the whole affair Monday as “a simple matter.” His attorneys said Melnikas did not intend to deprive the Vatican of any property.

LEGAL FILE

Jackie Mason, Legally Incorrect: A New York jurist on Monday tossed out comedian Jackie Mason’s $75-million lawsuit against the theater groups that decide which Broadway shows are eligible for a Tony Award. Justice Herman Cahn said he agreed with the 24-member Tony committee that one-person shows such as “Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect” did not meet eligibility requirements of being a “play” or a “musical.” Mason had called the committee’s determination “a charade and a mockery of simple common sense based on nothing but prejudice toward me.” Mason didn’t know whether he would appeal.

MOVIES

So Long, Charlie: “Charlie McCarthy,” the late Edgar Bergen’s wooden dummy, went on display Tuesday in Beverly Hills as the centerpiece of an upcoming auction of memorabilia from Hollywood and rock ‘n’ roll stars. Sotheby’s auction house, which will conduct the sale June 10 in New York, estimates ventriloquist and movie actor Bergen’s most famous sidekick--another copy is in the Smithsonian--will bring from $150,000 to $200,000. It was consigned by an unidentified ventriloquist friend of Bergen, Sotheby’s said. Among other items on display: handwritten lyrics from the late Beatles star John Lennon, the “Salome” shawl from the final scene of the 1950 classic film “Sunset Boulevard,” and Donald Ogden Stewart’s Oscar for his screenplay of the 1940 hit movie “Philadelphia Story.” The exhibit will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday at Sotheby’s Beverly Hills office, 308 N. Rodeo Drive.

QUICK TAKES

Eagle Don Henley, 47, wed longtime pal Sharon Summerall, 33, on Saturday at a huge, hush-hush bash at a Malibu ranch. Entertainment came from Billy Joel, Tony Bennett, Sting, Bruce Springsteen and other big names--even the L.A. Chamber Orchestra. Fellow Eagles, movie and music stars and industry brass were among the rice throwers. . . . Guitarist Eddie Van Halen says he’s facing hip replacement surgery due to the same degenerative disease that sent Bo Jackson in for repairs. But Van Halen said doctors have told him he can first finish his group’s sizzling tour this summer and fall in Europe, the United States and Japan.