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POP/ROCK

Jackson Is Back: The video for Michael Jackson’s new single, “Blood on the Dance Floor,” is scheduled to be broadcast about four times a day on VH1 after premiering Wednesday on the cable channel. The up-tempo dance song is one of four new tracks on the singer’s upcoming album, “Blood on the Dance Floor/HIStory in the Mix,” which is due May 20 on Epic Records. The other nine cuts are remixes of songs from Jackson’s 1995 album, “HIStory--Past, Present and Future Book I.” Included are remixes of the hit singles “Scream” and “You’re Not Alone.”

TELEVISION

Willis on the Small Screen: Actor Bruce Willis, playing himself, guest stars May 20 on the one-hour season finale of the NBC-TV sitcom “Mad About You.” The show marks Willis’ return to series television for the first time since he played wise-cracking private investigator David Addison in “Moonlighting,” a role he played opposite Cybill Shepherd for six seasons in the ‘80s. His feature-film credits include “Last Man Standing,” “12 Monkeys,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Die Hard,” “Die Hard 2” and “Mortal Thoughts,” in which he co-starred with his wife, actress Demi Moore.

QUICK TAKES

Grammy-winning singer Sheryl Crow will perform Friday night during a fund-raising party for L.A. mayoral candidate Tom Hayden at McInerney’s, a Santa Monica club owned by actor and party host Sean Penn. . . . Stephen Vincent Benet’s Civil War romance “John Brown’s Body” has replaced “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” as the fledgling Lobero Stage Company’s second production, slated to open April 19. In 1952, the Lobero played host to the premiere of “John Brown’s Body.” . . . Pat Paulsen, the 69-year-old former Smothers Brothers sidekick and perennial humorous presidential candidate, has inoperable brain cancer, according to a newspaper report in the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa.