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MOVIES

Honoring Women: Jodie Foster, Anjelica Huston and Angela Bassett have been named to receive 1996 Women in Film Crystal Awards, presented annually to “outstanding women who, through their endurance and excellence of their work, have helped enhance the role of women within the entertainment industry.” The awards will be presented June 21 at the Century Plaza Hotel. In addition, National Endowment for the Arts Chair Jane Alexander will be presented with the Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award for “her unflagging dedication to the arts and education reform.” Past Crystal Award recipients include Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Michelle Pfeiffer and Sherry Lansing.

Looking at the Friars: The illustrious history of Beverly Hills’ Friars Club will be examined in “A Salute to the Friars,” the first documentary to be filmed on the institution that the late George Burns called “a place where for the last 90 years performers have gathered to eat, relax, compare notes, gossip and talk dirty.” The documentary, featuring interviews with Friars Club members including Steve Allen, Jack Carter, Art Linkletter, Tony Martin and Jan Murray, is being produced by Friars Club “junior member” Dean Ward, whose previous film, “Shine,” was nominated for a student Academy Award and airs frequently on cable’s Bravo.

TELEVISION

Fox’s Summer Fare: Fox on Thursday announced more changes to its summer program schedule, with some regular series, including “Melrose Place,” taking summer breaks. Returning are “Party of Five,” in its previous 9-10 p.m. Wednesday slot, starting May 29; and “Ned and Stacey,” in a new Monday time slot at 8 p.m., starting June 3 (both series return with repeats). The network will also bring back “The Show,” with original episodes airing Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. beginning May 23. On Sundays starting May 26, “Space: Above and Beyond” will return at 7 p.m.; the comedy “Too Something,” which will be renamed, will air at 8:30 p.m.; and “The Crew” will return at 9:30 p.m. (all three will feature new episodes). In late night, “Mad TV” will return to the Saturday 11 p.m. to midnight hour with original episodes starting May 25.

PBS Debates: PBS aims to help citizens decide how to vote in this fall’s House and Senate races when it airs “PBS Debates Night: The Future of Congress,” on Sept. 29. The centerpiece of the $1.3-million project is an hourlong national debate between Republican and Democratic congressional leaders originating live from Williamsburg, Va., moderated by Jim Lehrer. That same evening, dozens of local public stations also will air hourlong live debates between local congressional aspirants.

ART

At the Auctions: Impressionist and Modern art sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s New York auction houses this week ran up nearly $141 million in sales, with a rare Vincent Van Gogh cafe scene fetching the top price of $10.3 million at Christie’s Tuesday night. In the Christie’s sale, 58 of the 67 works offered found buyers, for a total of $76.2 million. That was followed on Wednesday night by two sales at Sotheby’s, which brought a total of $64.6 million for 58 works, leaving 10 without buyers. Sotheby’s top lot was Claude Monet’s “Les Meules, Giverny, Effet du Matin,” an early work from the artist’s “haystacks” series, which sold to a Japanese dealer for $7.15 million. Notable at the spring sales was a strong contingent of Asian bidders, returning in force for the first time since the art market’s drop in 1990.

LEGAL FILE

Stone Sued: Sharon Stone has been sued for breach of contract by her former personal assistant, who claims the actress fired her, then didn’t pay her for almost $200,000 in overtime, vacation and severance pay. Kristine Harlan, who says in her L.A. Superior Court complaint that she earned a base salary of $1,500 per week and worked for Stone for three-and-half years before being fired in April 1995, also seeks $500,000 in punitive damages. The actress had no comment on the suit, her spokeswoman said.

Notes on Bo Derek, Reynolds: WarnerVision Entertainment Inc. has sued actress Bo Derek, alleging that she reneged on a deal to appear in a cable TV movie that was to have featured her nude for at least 12 minutes. The suit seeks return of a $250,000 advance and unrealized profits. . . . Bankers Trust Co. of California has started foreclosure proceedings on Burt Reynold’s waterfront home in Florida, claiming the actor hasn’t made his $8,516 monthly mortgage payment since August. A Reynolds’ spokesman blamed “a cash-flow problem” and said the matter would soon be resolved.

QUICK TAKES

CBS has ordered “at least” 22 episodes of its Monday night drama “Chicago Hope” for the 1996-97 season. The show joins five other CBS series renewed thus far: “Cybill,” “Murphy Brown,” “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” “Touched by an Angel” and “Walker, Texas Ranger.” . . . The release date for Buena Vista Pictures’ “Jack,” starring Robin Williams and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, has been moved up to Aug. 7. The movie, described as a comedy-drama, previously had been scheduled for a fall release.