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Stage and screen star Julie Andrews, performing on Broadway in “Victor/Victoria,” underwent emergency gallbladder surgery at an undisclosed Manhattan hospital Thursday. Her spokesman said that Andrews, 60, is expected to be released from the hospital this weekend and resume performances late next week. . . . Broadway composer Jerry Herman will be saluted by some of his leading ladies, including Angela Lansbury (“Mame”), Carol Channing (“Hello Dolly!”) and Beatrice Arthur (“Mame”), when he receives the UniHealth Foundation’s eighth annual Pinnacle Award tonight at the Century Plaza Hotel. . . . James A. Johnson, chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Assn., known as Fannie Mae, has been named the new head of Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Johnson, 52, was chairman of Walter F. Mondale’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984. He succeeds James D. Wolfensohn, who became president of the World Bank last year. . . . Barbara Walters will interview O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden on March 15 on ABC News’ “20/20.” . . . Tammy Faye Messner has resigned from the 6-week-old “Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show,” saying that she couldn’t cope with the “rigorous taping schedule and the stress” of the show while her current husband, Roe Messner, awaits sentencing on federal bankruptcy fraud. Ann Abernethy, Regis Philbin’s pre-Kathie Lee Gifford co-host, will replace Messner on the syndicated program, which is not seen in Los Angeles.