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MOVIES
Hollywood on the Block: Clark Gable’s personal script for “Gone With the Wind” and his Oscar for “It Happened One Night,” Audrey Meadows’ Emmy for “The Honeymooners,” an original “Star Trek” tricorder and a bed used by Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct” are among the items on view at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood through Saturday. Part of Christie’s Film, Television and Pop Memorabilia sale, they will be auctioned off at the PDC Sunday at 11 a.m. Pre-sale estimates include $30,000-$50,000 for the script, $12,000-$16,000 for the tricorder and $1,000-$1,500 for the bed.
Spike’s Gotta Have It: Spike Lee has signed on as spokesman for BET Movies/STARZ!3, the Black Movie Channel, and will host the new cable network’s premiere week, which will feature his “Do the Right Thing,” “Clockers,” “Crooklyn” and “She’s Gotta Have It.” BET Movies is scheduled to launch Feb. 1; there will be free previews each Saturday in February on parent channel BET.
TELEVISION
Walking in Wapner’s Shoes: Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch will preside over a new interactive version of “The People’s Court” that Warner Bros. Domestic Television plans to premiere next fall. The hourlong, syndicated weekday series will be produced by Ralph Edwards and Stu Billet, who did the original “People’s Court,” presided over by the ubiquitous Judge Joseph Wapner. The new version will originate from New York and will feature actual small claims cases from that area. It will be offered for live broadcast, which would allow viewers nationwide to render their opinions via phone, fax and e-mail.
‘Melrose Place’s’ Newest Resident: Alyssa Milano, whose last television series was “Who’s the Boss?” (she was Tony Danza’s teenage daughter), is set to join Fox’s “Melrose Place” for this season’s final seven episodes and for the entire 1997-98 season. She will portray the younger, newly married sister of Dr. Michael Mancini, played by Thomas Calabro.
STAGE
Union Movement: A union local that represents box-office workers is attempting to organize the ticket-selling staff at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. A leaflet distributed to theatergoers at the opening of “Love! Valour! Compassion!” on Wednesday charged that “the working conditions for these employees are inequitable and [the workers] are treated unfairly,” and urged patrons to call theater officials. By midday Thursday, no one had called, according to Geffen producing director Gilbert Cates. A former union president himself (of the Directors Guild), Cates declined to address specific issues but pointed out the theater’s $1.5-million shortfall between box office and expenses, and its position as “a nonprofit scratching to stay alive.”
POP/ROCK
Remembering Some Greats: Judy Garland, Buddy Holly, Frank Zappa and Charles Mingus will receive posthumous Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in February, joining living honorees the Everly Brothers, soul singer Bobby Blue Bland, jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli and pianist-composer Oscar Peterson when the 1996-97 honors are dispersed. The academy will give its annual Trustees Awards, which recognize non-performers, to A&M; and Almo Records founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss and songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
All Band Members Created Equal: Morrissey, who sang melancholy songs as a member of the Smiths before going solo, was branded “devious, truculent and unreliable” by a judge in London who on Wednesday awarded a greater share of the band’s royalties to drummer Mike Joyce. The Smiths broke up in 1987 but a compilation album, “Best . . . 1,” topped British pop charts in 1992. Guitarist Johnny Marr and Morrissey, who founded the group in 1982, said they had an agreement granting them each 40% of the royalties while Joyce and bass guitarist Andy Rourke were to get 10% each. But the judge granted Joyce’s claim for 25% of the band’s riches, which could amount to $1.6 million, according to British press reports.
QUICK TAKES
Producer Quincy Jones will be honored for lifetime artistic achievement when he receives the USC School of Music’s Magnum Opus Award at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown L.A. tonight. Past honorees include Herb Alpert, Leonard Bernstein and Michael Feinstein. Proceeds from the awards dinner will go toward an annual Quincy Jones Music Scholarship for USC students. . . . “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson Lee makes her first appearance on a network series when she guest stars on CBS’ “The Nanny” Jan. 8, playing the grieving widow of Fran’s (Fran Drescher) ex-fiance. . . . A purple pantsuit worn by tejano singer Selena at a concert in Houston one month before her murder in 1995 is being added to the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibition, “America’s Smithsonian.” . . . “Men Behaving Badly” cast members Rob Schneider, Ron Eldard and Justine Bateman will go online from their NBC set today from 5-6 p.m. The chat can be accessed at https://www.NBC.com.
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