Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation’s press.

TELEVISION

Achieve, She Did: The Screen Actors Guild will honor Angela Lansbury for “fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession” with a Life Achievement Award to be presented at the Shrine Exposition Center Feb. 22 during the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, being broadcast that same night on NBC. In addition to her longtime starring role and multiple Emmy nominations for TV’s “Murder, She Wrote,” Lansbury’s career has spanned more than half a century, including four Tony Awards for her stage work and Oscar-nominated roles in the films “Gaslight,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and “The Manchurian Candidate.” The award also recognizes her efforts for charitable causes, including the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and AmFAR. Previous recipients include Robert Redford, Audrey Hepburn, George Burns, Gene Kelly and Burt Lancaster.

*

Look Who’s ‘Fashionable’: VH1 viewers who cast their ballots via an 800 number chose Elton John as the “most fashionable artist of 1996,” as announced Thursday during the annual “VH1 Fashion Awards” held in New York. Other winners, determined by fashion and music professionals, included Dennis Rodman (best personal style--male), Gwyneth Paltrow (best personal style--female), Toni Braxton (most stylish music video for “You’re Makin’ Me High”) and Kate Moss (female model of the year). The award show--which was opened by ‘70s icons the Bee Gees performing “Stayin’ Alive”--airs on the cable channel tonight at 6.

*

Surf’s Up!: Fans of the 1968-80 series “Hawaii Five-O” will converge on the Burbank Airport Hilton Hotel this weekend for “Mahalo Con: The ‘Hawaii Five-O’ Reunion Convention,” taking place today through Sunday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Scheduled participants include series co-stars James MacArthur, Kam Fong, Zulu, Doug Mossman and Glenn Cannon. The convention then moves to Honolulu from Tuesday through Nov. 2.

*

Fishman to Fly Solo: KTLA anchor and avid pilot Hal Fishman will take over a solo anchor spot on the station’s “News at 10” starting Monday, as his co-anchor Marta Waller returns to a “very visible” reporting role. A KTLA spokeswoman said the move reflected “absolutely no negative performance on Marta’s part” and was prompted solely by Fishman’s “popularity.” Waller was also recently bumped from the station’s noon newscast, which moved to 11 a.m. with a new anchor, Michele Ruiz.

MOVIES

Trick or Treat! A ghoulish Michael Jackson will grace the screen at the Magic Johnson Theatre in Baldwin Hills today through Halloween in “Ghosts,” a 35-minute musical film directed by special-effects master Stan Winston (“Jurassic Park,” “Aliens”). The short film--about a town that tries to oust a loner who likes telling ghost stories--is based on Jackson’s song “2 Bad” and features the pop star in five roles. The short is being “sneak previewed,” along with Stephen King’s “Thinner,” only in select theaters nationwide, but an Epic Records spokeswoman said that a wide national release is being discussed for 1997.

POP/ROCK

Conversing With R.E.M.: R.E.M. band members Michael Stipe, Bill Berry, Peter Buck and Mike Mills will take calls from listeners around the world on Nov. 3 during “The R.E.M. Radio Hour: A Live Conversation,” to be broadcast from the Museum of Radio & Television in Beverly Hills. The 6-7 p.m. broadcast, to be carried locally on KSCA-FM (101.9) (as well as over the Internet at https://www.wbr.com/rem), will include previews of unreleased musical tracks, as well as songs from the band’s CD “New Adventures in Hi-Fi.”

*

More ‘R-E-S-P-E-C-T’: After a four-year absence from the recording world, Aretha Franklin has signed a three-album deal with Arista Records. The multimillion-dollar pact reunites Franklin with her longtime friend and advisor, Arista President Clive Davis, who will personally oversee the first album, due in early 1997. According to Arista, the deal offers Franklin increased “artistic and creative control” of her recordings and video productions, and the upcoming album will showcase a “little-known side” of the “Queen of Soul’s” artistry--songwriting.

QUICK TAKES

Screen actress Marsha Mason (“The Goodbye Girl”) is set to guest-star in multiple episodes of NBC’s “Frasier,” playing dad Martin’s (John Mahoney) “bawdy, larger-than-life girlfriend.” . . . Barbra Streisand has agreed to sit with Oprah Winfrey for a rare, hourlong interview scheduled to air on the talk show in November. Streisand will overcome her usual media-shyness to promote her film “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” which opens in theaters Nov. 15. . . . Former director-producer Jorn Donner, whose credits include the Oscar-winning Ingmar Bergman work “Fanny and Alexander,” has left his post as Finnish consul general in Los Angeles after being elected to the Brussels-based European Parliament, where he hopes to promote cooperation among European Union members on the marketing and distribution of movies. Donner, a founding member of the European Film Academy of Berlin, served as a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1987 to 1995.