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PEOPLE WATCH

Trio of Wedding Bells: Hollywood’s $20-million man, Jim Carrey, married longtime love Lauren Holly (“Picket Fences”) on Monday in a “very private, small ceremony” in Los Angeles, the actor’s spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. TV’s “Hard Copy,” which reports that the only attendees were Carrey’s daughter, Jane, an unnamed male witness and the officiant, will air an exclusive “wedding video” of the couple’s Malibu nuptials on today’s broadcast. Meanwhile, the couple didn’t get a long honeymoon: Carrey returns to the set of “Liar, Liar” today. . . . Also tying the knot Monday was actor Gary Busey, 52 (“The Buddy Holly Story”), who married actress Tiani Warden, 29, in Dallas. Busey’s son, actor Jake Busey, was best man. . . . In Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” Gaston’s wooing of Belle bombs. But in real life, Stephen Bishop, the L.A. production’s Gaston, succeeded in wooing Yvette Lawrence, L.A.’s current Belle. The couple will wed next month.

Vincent Charged: Actor Jan-Michael Vincent has been charged with drunken driving and driving with a suspended license in conjunction with the Aug. 26 Orange County accident in which Vincent’s Mazda rear-ended his girlfriend’s car and then slammed into a pole, leaving the actor with a broken neck. Prosecutors said tests showed that Vincent’s blood-alcohol content at the time of the accident was .18, more than twice the legal limit. Arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 21; if convicted, Vincent could face up to a year in prison and a $2,000 fine. Vincent, 52, was released from Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center last week, and has experienced no paralysis, hospital officials said.

TELEVISION

More ‘Most Wanted’: Fox, scrambling to fill the void left by the poor showing of its freshman comedies “Lush Life” and “Party Girl” (see TV ratings story, F1), announced Tuesday that it will revive the canceled reality series “America’s Most Wanted.” Noting that the network had received “an enormous outpouring” of mail from viewers, government officials and law enforcement agencies seeking to keep the show on the air, Fox said it has ordered “multiple episodes” of “Most Wanted” as a “backup series,” and that the show is expected to return to the schedule later this season. The network also announced that its new comedy game show, “Big Deal,” which finishes its scheduled run on Sunday, will remain in production as a backup series.

MOVIES

Dancing for Jabba: San Francisco-based dance company Smuin Ballets/SF will appear in the special edition of George Lucas’ “Return of the Jedi,” which will return to movie theaters in early 1997 as part of the “Star Wars Trilogy.” Along with enhanced visual effects and other previously unreleased footage, “Return of the Jedi” will feature the company’s dancers playing aliens who dance for the pleasure of Jabba the Hutt. The Smuin company, scheduled to perform at Cal State L.A.’s Luckman Theatre on March 1 and 2, has appeared in two previous films, “A Walk in the Clouds” and “The Fantasticks.”

MUSIC

Classical Lessons: Radio station KKGO-FM (105.1) will aim to “introduce children and adults to the joys of classical music” by presenting “The Classical Kids Hour,” a seven-week series combining classical music with history and dramatic storytelling. The hourlong program, to air Sunday mornings at 10 a.m., begins Oct. 6 with “Beethoven Lives Upstairs.” Future episodes will focus on the works of composers including Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.

QUICK TAKES

Free tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis for an upcoming Dolly Parton CBS television special, being taped today at 6:45 p.m., at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Business attire is mandatory. . . . For the second straight year, Cable’s Lifetime Television will commit $5 million in air time and special programming to promote breast cancer awareness in October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The network also will sponsor the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s nationwide fund-raiser Race for the Cure. . . . The Hollywood box-office hit “Independence Day” smashed German box office records over the weekend, taking in nearly $15 million to surpass the previous German opening weekend record set in 1993 by Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park.” “ID4,” directed by the German-born Roland Emmerich, has pulled in more than $290 million in U.S. theaters. . . . Actor Denzel Washington will be an investor in BET Movies, a new pay-TV network showcasing African American film actors. The new channel will launch in February. . . . Larry Thomas, the infamous “Soup Nazi” of “Seinfeld” fame, is taking on a new vocation--as a casino dealer in Mike Myers’ upcoming movie “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.”