POP/ROCKVideo, Movie Plans: “Selena Remembered,” a 60-minute...

POP/ROCK

Video, Movie Plans: “Selena Remembered,” a 60-minute home video featuring on-camera interviews with the late tejano music star, as well as footage from her concert and television appearances and music videos, will be released Oct. 15 by EMI Latin. Also included are interviews with fellow recording artists and Selena’s family members and home movies of Selena singing as a child. With that project nearing completion, the singer’s family, that co-executive produced the video with EMI, is working on plans for a theatrical movie about Selena’s life, as well as a companion soundtrack. Although no deals for the picture are signed yet, the family has been “besieged” by requests to portray the singer from Latina actresses from both the United States and Mexico, the Quintanilla family’s spokesman said Thursday.

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Believing in Elvis: A previously unknown mid-1960s recording by Elvis Presley will be included at an Oct. 6-7 sale of Presley memorabilia at Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. London auction house Bonhams is calling the three-minute acoustic ballad “Let Me Make Believe Awhile,” based on its repeated lyrics. According to British reports, the 10-inch record was in a paper sleeve inscribed: “To Dick, thanks. Elvis Presley.” It’s believed that Elvis gave the recording to his security chief, Dick Grob, who is offering the record and other Presley items at the auction.

RADIO

Revisiting Hollywood Blacklists: KCRW-FM (89.9) will premiere “Blacklisted,” a new docudrama recalling the tense years of the Hollywood blacklists, on Sept. 3 from 6-9 p.m. The program is produced by Tony Kahn, whose father, Gordon Kahn (author of “Hollywood on Trial”), was a Hollywood screenwriter who fled to Mexico in the late 1940s after being targeted as a Communist by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The production, recorded in six half-hour episodes, features an all-star cast including Stockard Channing, Carroll O’Connor, Eli Wallach, Ron Leibman, Martin Mull and Spalding Gray.

LEGAL FILE

Simone Convicted in Shooting Incident: American jazz singer Nina Simone was convicted Wednesday of shooting at a noisy teen-ager with buckshot while gardening at her villa in southern France. She was fined $4,600 and ordered to undergo counseling. Two teens were playing in a swimming pool at the villa next door to Simone’s in Bouc-Bel-Air on July 25. According to the singer’s account, she twice asked them to keep it down. When they failed to cooperate, she fired rounds of buckshot across the hedge. A 15-year-old boy was slightly wounded. Simone’s lawyer said the singer was fragile and depressed.

TELEVISION

Fall Moves: KCBS-TV Channel 2 said Thursday that it will move Geraldo Rivera’s weekday talk show from afternoons to late night when the station unveils its fall schedule Sept. 11. “Geraldo” will air at 1:35 a.m., following “The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder.” Joining KCBS’ afternoon lineup will be singer Carnie Wilson’s talk show, “Carnie,” and “Day & Date,” a magazine show hosted by Dana King and Patrick Van Horn. . . . Meanwhile, the anticipated showdown between the syndicated “Seinfeld” and “Home Improvement” has fizzled since KTTV-TV Channel 11 has opted to run the Tim Allen sitcom at 7 p.m., starting Sept. 11, leaving “The Simpsons” at 7:30 p.m. to fend against Jerry & Co. on KTLA-TV Channel 5.

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Another ‘E.T.’ Imitator?: Jim Van Messel, former executive producer of “Entertainment Tonight,” has been hired by NBC and the New World production company to develop a similar show-business newsmagazine program for the fall of 1996. The syndicated program would air on NBC-owned stations, including Los Angeles’ KNBC-TV Channel 4, which presently carries “Extra,” another “E.T.” imitation produced by Warner Bros. If the new program comes to fruition, “Extra” would have to find a new home in those markets.

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‘Currents’ of Change: Jon Scott, one of the original “Dateline NBC” correspondents, has been named anchor of the syndicated “A Current Affair,” effective Sept. 11. His appointment is one of several changes designed to boost sagging ratings and improve the tabloid show’s respectability. Scott, who joined NBC in 1992 after a four-year stint at “Inside Edition,” was hired at “A Current Affair” by John Tomlin, former executive producer of “Edition,” who joined “A Current Affair” in June. Tomlin said Wednesday that changes to his program will include a daily entertainment report from Hollywood and a newly opened Washington bureau.

QUICK TAKES

Comedian Dennis Miller has been named host of the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, which will be broadcast live on MTV from New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. Confirmed performers for the show include Michael Jackson, R.E.M., Hootie & the Blowfish, Live, Alanis Morisette, Bon Jovi, Red Hot Chili Peppers, TLC and White Zombie.