TELEVISIONStories From Stars: Tim Allen, Kirk Douglas...

TELEVISION

Stories From Stars: Tim Allen, Kirk Douglas and Teri Garr are among the celebrities set to read books to children on the second season of PBS’ “Storytime” beginning in July. The 10 new episodes of the show, which exposes kids aged 3-7 to literature, will also feature stories read by Little Richard, Annie Potts, Robert Guillaume, Theresa Saldana, Marion Ross and young actress Kirsten Dunst. Books to be read include “Swamp Angel” and “The Grasshopper and the Ant.” The show is produced by Los Angeles public television station KCET.

MTV Hosts: Courteney Cox and Jon Lovitz will host the fourth annual MTV Movie Awards. The show, which will be taped at Warner Bros. Studios on June 10, airs June 15. The nominations for the awards were chosen through a national poll of MTV viewers--viewers also vote for the winners in such offbeat categories as best kiss and best villain.

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Spielberg Pledges Help: Director Steven Spielberg has pledged $250,000 from his Oscar-winning Holocaust film “Schindler’s List” to help restore the Amsterdam hiding place of young Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The donation will go toward a $14.38-million complete restoration of the building on Prinsengracht canal, said Ita Amahorseija for the Anne Frank Institute. “We want to recreate the office and storage space in the building as it was when the Frank family hid here,” she said last week. German-born Anne and her family lived in a secret annex at the back of the Prinsengracht building between June 1942 and August 1944 before the family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen in March 1945 at age 15. The annex was refitted before it was opened as a museum in 1960 but the main body of the building has never been restored.

POP/ROCK

Stones Roll Into Amsterdam: The Rolling Stones surprised fans in Amsterdam during the weekend with two shows in a nightclub where they recorded a new live album. About 700 fans attended the concert; the recording is scheduled for worldwide release in October. The band kicks off its Voodoo Lounge European Tour in Stockholm on Saturday.

Flav on Probation: Rapper Flavor Flav has been sentenced to three months in jail for firing a gun at a neighbor in his New York apartment building. The 36-year-old rapper, whose real name is William Drayton, originally was charged with attempted murder in the November, 1993, altercation. It was reduced to weapons possession, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum jail term of one year. Drayton, of the group Public Enemy, also was placed on probation Friday for three years and ordered to enter a drug treatment program.

Smokey Jim: Jimmy Page, the founder of Led Zeppelin, was flying from San Francisco to Portland last week when he locked himself in the bathroom and, despite preflight warnings, allegedly lit a cigarette. An alarm sounded and the crew of the United Airlines flight notified authorities, who were waiting for Page as he stepped off the plane. Page was not arrested, but he could be fined up to $1,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the case.

RADIO

Frank Tips: For those foodies who are lamenting the demise of “The KNX Food News Hour,” here’s another place to turn: Chef Ken Frank offers “Chef Tips” on KKGO-FM (105.1) and KJOI-AM (540 and 1260) at 10:58 a.m. Monday through Friday. Frank, formerly of the now-defunct La Toque, is currently chef at Fenix in the Argyle Hotel in West Hollywood.

MOVIES

Oldman the Director: Actor Gary Oldman plans to make his directorial debut with a story based on his memories of growing up in a dreary South London suburb. Oldman, 37, had a tough childhood after his father, a welder, disappeared when he was 7. “Gary got tired of seeing in British films a description of the suburbs that wasn’t at all like the reality he lived through,” French filmmaker Luc Besson, who will produce the film, told the magazine Le Film Francais.

QUICK TAKES

Actor Christopher Reeve was in stable condition Sunday at the University of Virginia Medical Center after being thrown from his steed during a horse-jumping competition outside of Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. . . . Blues artist John Lee Hooker will appear in a rare performance tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the House of Blues in Hollywood. The concert will be taped by cable’s TBS to air on June 30 and July 1.