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More Treasures Revealed: Vincent Van Gogh’s famous image “Boats at Saintes-Maires” and 35 Francisco Goya works will highlight an exhibition of 89 master drawings going on view Dec. 3-March 31, 1997, at Russia’s State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The exhibition, culled from the German private collections that had been believed lost after World War II but were secretly preserved at the Hermitage, is a follow-up to “Hidden Treasures Revealed,” the Hermitage’s recent landmark exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from those collections. Also included in “Master Drawings Rediscovered: Treasures From Prewar German Collections” will be several works by Daumier, Signac and Archipenko, as well as single works by Cezanne, Delacroix, Ingres, Millet, Nolde and Lautrec. Abrams publishers, which announced plans for the show in New York Thursday night, will publish a catalog of the exhibition, which is not slated to travel outside of St. Petersburg.

TELEVISION

Will He Get a SAG Card?: Bill Clinton will appear as himself in an upcoming CBS movie, in which he fulfills a dying child’s wish to meet the president. Clinton will shoot the scene for “A Child’s Wish” in the Oval Office this month, White House spokesman Mike McCurry said Thursday. McCurry said that the movie will spotlight a law that Clinton regards as one of his proudest achievements--the 1993 Family Medical Leave Act. Clinton will become the first sitting president to tape such an appearance; the movie will not air, however, until after the Nov. 5 election.

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Remembering Bombing Victims: Cable’s VH1 will mark the one-year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing by premiering Garth Brooks’ new video, “The Change,” next Friday at 10:02 a.m.--the exact time that the catastrophe occurred. The video features news footage from the bombing’s aftermath, and praises those who responded to the tragedy with kindness. “The Change,” written by Tony Arata and Wayne Tester, is about the triumph of the human spirit, and Brooks, an Oklahoma native known for his charitable contributions, says it “speaks on a subject that is very close to me.”

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George Fires George?: The May 16 season finale of “Seinfeld” may also bring a career change for the character of George Costanza, played by Jason Alexander. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner told talk-show host “the Fabulous Sports Babe” (who airs locally on ESPN2) that he has already taped the episode in which he fires Costanza from his front office job with the Yankees. But an NBC spokeswoman said Thursday that Steinbrenner “jokes about firing [Costanza], but by the end of the episode, it looks like he’s coming back to the Yankees next season.”

MOVIES

Brando Conference Canceled: Marlon Brando won’t be elaborating today on his controversial statements about the role of Jews in Hollywood. Brando, who had been scheduled to hold a press conference at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance today, will instead meet privately with rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper at an undisclosed location. Hier and Cooper will then hold a 12:30 p.m. news conference to discuss the meeting. The latest twist came following revelations that Brando’s comments on last Friday’s “Larry King Live” were similar to statements he made in a 1979 Playboy interview. “I was mad at the Jews in the business because they largely founded the industry,” the actor told Playboy interviewer Lawrence Grobel. “. . . You’ve seen every race besmirched, but you never saw an image of the kike. Because the Jews were ever watchful for that--and rightly so. . . . The Jews have done so much for the world that, I suppose, you get extra disappointed because they didn’t pay any attention to [depictions of other ethnic groups].”

QUICK TAKES

By request of the Republican National Committee, NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday corrected comments made Wednesday by anchor Bryant Gumbel that no Republicans had sent condolences to the family of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. But Gumbel, who said Thursday that he was “not anxious to prolong this story,” didn’t make the correction--it was read by news host Ann Curry. . . . An NBC spokeswoman denied a report in Daily Variety Thursday that the network will make a series of TV movies based on “Mindhunter,” a book co-written by retired FBI agent John Douglas, which includes material on the Unabomber case. The network has long held rights to Douglas’ book, but has “no plans to develop it at this point,” the spokeswoman said. . . . Independent Feature Project/West will hold a preview screening of Gramercy Pictures’ “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie,” which opens in theaters next Friday, tonight at 7:30 at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center. Stars Mike Nelson and Trace Beaulieu will speak following the screening. Tickets are $15. . . . In other IFP news, the group’s fifth annual screenwriting conference, taking place today through Sunday in New York, will be broadcast live on the Internet at Fine Line Features’ Web site: https://www.flf.com.