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PEOPLE WATCH

More Bad News for Hollywood: A majority of teen-agers and adults believe that television, movies and popular music encourage illegal drug use among all age groups, according to a survey released Thursday. National Drug Policy Director Lee Brown said the results should serve as a “wake-up call” for the entertainment industry, which has recently come under fire for the sex and violence content of its programs. The poll, conducted for the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, found that 67% of the 2,000 adults interviewed said they believe popular culture encourages drug use. And 76% of the 400 teens surveyed blamed the industry.

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Grant Joins Hurley: Hugh Grant was back in England Friday to face his girlfriend, model-actress Elizabeth Hurley, and presumably make amends for being arrested with a woman identified as a prostitute. Grant joined Hurley in a country retreat in West Littleton, about 110 miles west of London, according to the Press Assn., the British news agency. The couple was seen together having lunch in the garden. Hurley, 29, said Thursday that she wasn’t sure what would become of her eight-year relationship with the actor. Grant, 34, was charged Thursday in Los Angeles along with Stella Marie Thompson (a.k.a. Divine Brown) with misdemeanor counts of lewd conduct in public. Meanwhile, the News of the World tabloid claims that it has secured rights to an exclusive interview with Thompson.

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Hampton Out of Hospital: Jazz great Lionel Hampton, released from a New York hospital Friday, denied wire service reports that he had suffered his second stroke in three months. “I went in there to have some X-rays because I was feeling a bit [ill],” the 87-year-old vibraphone player told publicist Virginia Wicks of Los Angeles. “But those doctors gave me a battery of tests and everything came up absolutely negative. They gave me an A-plus rating and I’m back home and raring to go.”

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TELEVISION

Turner Tribute: American Movie Classics announced Friday that it will pay homage to Hollywood legend Lana Turner in August with a weeklong festival of her films. Turner died Thursday at 75. From Aug. 20-24, AMC will air a Turner film every night at 7. The “In Love With Lana” festival kicks off on Aug. 20 with “Portrait in Black.” The other films to be shown are “Who’s Got the Action,” “Imitation of Life,” “Lady Takes a Flyer” and “Another Time, Another Place.”

MOVIES

Merchandisers, We Have Liftoff: Just in time for the new “Apollo 13” movie comes a CD-ROM with dramatic footage from the near-fatal 1970 space flight. “Distant Suns-First Light,” a multimedia space exploration program from Virtual Reality Laboratories Inc., includes video clips of the Apollo 13 liftoff, interior shots of the cabin and a detailed mission description of all Apollo flights. In addition, the program makes it possible to get the astronauts’ view of the Earth, moon and planets at any time during Apollo 13’s 142-hour flight.

ART

‘Origin’ Uncovered in Paris: Shrouded in secrecy and scandal for more than a century, Gustave Courbet’s graphic painting of a reclining nude is on display at the Orsay Museum in Paris. “The Origin of the World” is a close-up of the torso and lower body of a young woman with her legs spread to reveal her genitals, her breasts partially covered by a sheet. Commissioned in 1866 for Khalil Bey, the Turkish ambassador to France known for his collection of paintings by Ingres, Delacroix and Courbet, it has been shown only twice before. The work is so explicit that last year, police in Clermond-Ferrand and Besancon, citing French pornography laws, had a novel by Jacques Henric featuring the painting on its cover removed from bookstore windows.

QUICK TAKES

Flutists Eugenia Zukerman and Anne Diener Giles will replace flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal at Hollywood Bowl on July 12. Rampal is recuperating from knee surgery. . . . Nicholas Anthony Moore, the first child of Dudley Moore and Nicole Rothschild, was born Wednesday in Beverly Hills. . . . The Hollywood Entertainment Museum will open next spring in the Hollywood Galaxy building, board chairman Earl Lestz announced. . . . Carmen Zapata, president of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, will be the celebrity presenter and master of ceremonies for the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce’s 12th annual “Medici Awards” dinner July 13. . . . National Public Radio, Public Radio International and the Corp. for Public Broadcasting have joined forces to launch “America One,” a 24-hour audio channel that will begin serving Europe later this year.

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