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THE ARTS

Music Center Honors:Recipients of distinguished artist awards to be presented next Monday by Club 100 of the Music Center were announced Monday. They include writer-producer Allan Burns (“Mary Tyler Moore Show”), L.A. Music Center Opera General Director Peter Hemmings, author-playwright Maxine Hong Kingston (“Woman Warrior”), actress-producer-puppeteer Shari Lewis and Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger. Honored as “rising artists” will be opera tenor Greg Fedderly and actress Halle Berry. The awards will be presented at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Among past recipients of the award are Kathy Bates, Placido Domingo, David Hockney, James Earl Jones, Shirley MacLaine and Penny Marshall. Club 100 is a group of professional women and community leaders who support the performing arts. Proceeds from the dinner event will benefit the Music Center’s BRAVO Award, which honors teachers and schools for arts education.

MOVIES

A Leap for Fox: Media magnate Rupert Murdoch won Australian government approval Monday to open a $96-million 20th Century Fox studio at Sydney’s historic fairground site, but local residents vowed to fight the decision. The New South Wales state government issued development approval to Fox Studios Australia to transform the 70-acre site in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, which currently stables 150 horses, into Australia’s largest studio complex. Murdoch’s News Corp. agreed to restore 20 heritage buildings, retain the show ground’s central ring and to preclude outdoor theme-park-style entertainment, state Labor Premier Bob Carr said. He added that the studio complex would create a new industry for the area, generating 1,600 jobs. However, local land and environmental activists are pursuing a lawsuit to block the project, according to wire service reports.

TELEVISION

Valenti Meets Industry: Television producers Steven Bochco, John Wells, Marcy Carsey and about 50 other producers, writers, industry guild and network executives and several others met Monday with Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, to discuss a proposed TV-ratings system. Valenti called the discussion “freewheeling and passionate,” with almost everyone from the creative community in attendance opposing the ratings system, which will be based on the MPAA ratings for theatrical films. The producers have voiced fears that such a system would hurt creative expression and stigmatize adult dramas among advertisers. Valenti said after the meeting at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills that the producers vowed to help work out a system that would have “integrity” and would be of assistance to parents with small children.

ART

East Meets West: Four Los Angeles artists will join a quartet of visiting Chinese masters to create collaborative artworks tonight from 7 to 9 at the Spring Street Gallery. The public event will combine the talents of Chinese traditional artists Chen Dazhang, Ren Zhi,Huang Zhengxiang and Li Dapeng with those of L.A. painters Charles Arnoldi, Peter Alexander, Laddie John Dill and Jim Ganzer, who are known for their signature styles. The artistic evening is being presented in conjunction with “The Great Masters of China,” an exhibition of the Chinese artists’ work at the gallery. The show is on view at 333 S. Spring St. through May 25.

POP/ROCK

Not a Puzzlement: Cornershop . . . Satchel . . . Sponge . . . Ruby. They sound like answers to a crossword puzzle, but they are acts that will appear on the Second Stage at this year’s Lollapalooza. Not a bad place to begin, according to organizers of the summer music event. The Second Stage is where Coolio and Moby, among others, got major career boosts. Also set to appear during the first or second half of the tour are Girls Against Boys, Ben Folds Five, You Am I, Beth Hart, Soul Coughing, the Melvins, Jonny Polonsky and the Low & Sweet Orchestra. Lollapalooza ’96 will also introduce a third stage featuring independent artists. Among them: Chune, Moonshake, Lutefisk, Capsize 7, COWS, Long Fin Killie, Thirty-Ought-Six and Varnaline. The 25-city tour, still being planned, is expected to hit Southern California in midsummer. Metallica is coming along, too.

Bonsoir, Tina: Tina Turner, with Bruce Willis in tow, launched her 18-month “Wildest Dreams World Tour ‘96” in Paris Friday evening with a supercharged concert of nearly two hours. Willis, backed by his own band, the Accelerators, sang several numbers before Turner began her show. He later joined her for a duet. Turner, 56, appearing initially in a glittery white micro-mini and later in a transparent, sequined mini-dress, dazzled fans with renditions of familiar hits such as “Proud Mary” and “River Deep, Mountain High” as well as newer songs. Also dazzling the audience was the high-tech stage set featuring video special effects and pyrotechnics. Willis afterward called the joint appearance “a dream come true.” Turner acknowledged she was “surprised” by Willis’ performance. “I’ve never seen him dancing and singing,” she said.