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POP/ROCK

Memorabilia Offered: Butterfield & Butterfield will auction nearly 500 pieces of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia on Monday at 1 p.m. at its Sunset Boulevard showroom. Among the offerings: Madonna’s dress from the “Like a Prayer” video (pre-sale estimate $8,000-$12,000), Paul McCartney’s handwritten “Hey Jude” lyrics ($15,000-$20,000), John Lennon’s handwritten “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” lyrics ($15,000-$20,000) and Elvis Presley’s Tennessee driver’s license ($25,000-$30,000). Previews are today (10 a.m.-5 p.m.) and Sunday (10 a.m.-1 p.m.).

TELEVISION

Syndication News: “Access Hollywood,” the new magazine show anchored by Giselle Fernandez and Larry Mendte, kicks off Monday with a live in-studio interview with the man widely picked by critics to take home his second best actor Emmy Sunday--”NYPD Blue” star Dennis Franz. Also featured will be a taped interview with one of Franz’s fellow nominees, “ER’s” George Clooney, and a performance by the group 3T. The show airs weekdays at 7:30 p.m. on KNBC-TV Channel 4. . . . Also kicking off Monday is “Scoop With Sam & Dorothy,” airing weekdays at 9 a.m. on KTLA-TV Channel 5. Hosts Sam Rubin and Dorothy Lucey’s first guests will be “Seinfeld’s” Jason Alexander and country singer Randy Travis. . . . And talk-show host Gordon Elliott, who launches his third season Monday (weekdays at 2 p.m. on KCBS-TV Channel 2), has taken up a second job as a regular New York correspondent and commentator for “Day & Date” (4 p.m. weekdays on Channel 2).

Party Time: If you didn’t rate tickets to Sunday’s Emmy Awards and Governors Ball at the Pasadena Civic Center, you can still get in on one of the Emmy bashes. A celebrity committee including actors Antonio Sabato Jr., James Wilder, Rain Pryor, Kimber Sissons (“Baywatch Nights”), Patrika Darbo (“Step by Step”), Brent Jasmer and Maitland Ward (“The Bold and the Beautiful”) and Brad Maule (“General Hospital”) are throwing a public party at Atlas Bar and Grill to benefit the charity Shields for Families. Tickets are $75 for a 5 p.m. catered buffet dinner and Emmy viewing, or $25 for the 11 p.m. “Afterglow” party. . . . Meanwhile, among the private parties scheduled for the stars: “Entertainment Tonight” will hold its first-ever post-Emmy bash, hosted by Mary Hart and nominee Kelsey Grammer, at Pasadena’s Twin Palms Restaurant. Twentieth Television will fete its nominees and stars from “The X-Files,” “Chicago Hope” and “Picket Fences” at Spago. And HBO, whose whopping 66 nominations this year include 12 for Garry Shandling’s “The Larry Sanders Show,” will celebrate at Beverly Hills’ Eclipse.

Huffin’ and ‘Puf’in’: “H.R. Pufnstuf,” “Sigmund & the Sea Monsters” and other creations of Sid and Marty Krofft are taking over the Family Channel’s weekend morning lineup. Beginning Oct. 5, the cable channel will offer the Kroffts’ children’s shows “The Bugaloos,” “Lidsville,” “Sigmund” and “Pufnstuf” from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturdays, and “Sigmund” and “Far Out Space Nuts” from 9 to 10 a.m. Sundays. Meanwhile, the duo’s “New Land of the Lost” already airs Saturdays and Sundays at 5 p.m. on Nickelodeon.

JAZZ

Torme Update: Doctors hope to move entertainer Mel Torme, who turns 71 Friday, out of intensive care and into a regular hospital room sometime this weekend or Monday, the singer’s spokesman said. Torme, who suffered a stroke last month, has weakness in his left side and is still unable to speak. Doctors have been unable to say whether Torme will regain his voice.

STAGE

Access Theatre Closes Shop: Santa Barbara’s Access Theatre, which for 18 years focused on promoting accessibility for the disabled, is going out of business as a performing organization. The board chose to close after founder/artistic director Rod Lathim announced his retirement in order to pursue his career as an individual artist. The theater’s endowment fund will continue to issue grants to arts organizations that support accessibility in their practices as well as their programming.

QUICK TAKES

Entertainer Bob Hope, 93, is scheduled to sign copies of his new book, “Dear Prez, I Wanna Tell Ya! A Presidential Jokebook,” today from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at Century City’s Brentano’s Bookstore. . . . Hurricane Fran forced the 100 cast and crew members of CBS’ upcoming Hallmark Hall of Fame movie “The Summer of Ben Tyler” to evacuate their Wilmington, N.C., filming location Thursday. But when stars James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern and others were bused to Raleigh, N.C., where conditions were thought to be safer, flood waters rose, forcing them to take refuge in a hotel. . . . NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” will have two new players when it kicks off its 22nd season on Sept. 28: Ana Gasteyer, a member of Los Angeles’ sketch comedy group the Groundlings, and Tracy Morgan, a Bronx-born stand-up comedian and sketch comedy player. They replace departees David Spade, David Koechner and Nancy Walls. . . . Dina Ruiz, 30, the new wife of Clint Eastwood, 66, announced that the couple are expecting a “honeymoon baby,” due early next year. They were married March 31.