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ART

More Viewing: The L.A. County Museum of Art is expanding its hours on July 1 and, for the first time in the Wilshire Boulevard institution’s history, will be open on Mondays in an effort to attract more extended-weekend travelers and take advantage of Monday holidays. However, the museum will still be dark one day of the week: Wednesday. That means the traditional Wednesday film matinees will move to Tuesdays. The new hours will be noon to 8 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; noon to 9 p.m. on Fridays; and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Extended evening hours (the museum currently closes at 5 p.m. on most weekdays and 6 p.m. on weekends) are also intended to boost accessibility. Parking after 6 p.m. will be free. In addition, museum admission is free the second Tuesday of every month.

TELEVISION

What, No Grace Period?: Talk-show host Rosie O’Donnell has donated $1,000 to Connecticut’s Bethel Public Library after losing an especially rare tome: the library’s only copy of Meg Ryan’s yearbook. O’Donnell borrowed the book last month for a guest appearance by Ryan, who--then known as Margaret “Peggy” Hyra--graduated from Bethel High in 1979. “Meg was so excited because she lost hers,” a spokeswoman for O’Donnell’s show said. “And Rosie said, ‘Sure, take it.’ How could she say ‘no’?” The spokeswoman added that O’Donnell did not know the book was the library’s only copy. The yearbook has become a collector’s item, fetching $100 to $300 at previous sales.

LEGAL FILE

For Whom the Name Tolls: Ernest Hemingway’s three sons and the owners of a long-established Florida museum located in the late author’s former house are trading legal punches over rights to the writer’s name and image. The Hemingway Home museum’s owners claim that because they’ve been in business for 32 years, they have a common-law trademark right to the Hemingway name and should be allowed to conduct tours in the Key West villa without paying royalties to Hemingway’s sons Jack, Patrick and Gregory. The three formed Hemingway Ltd. in 1992 and this year began seeking royalties from businesses that profit from their father’s name or image. Their recent bid to collect 10% of royalties as well as five years of back payments led to the cancellation of Hemingway Days, a weeklong festival held in Key West each July since 1982. Hemingway lived on the Florida island in the 1930s. In addition to his house, the bars where he drank and other establishments draw heavily on his continued appeal.

What’s in a Name, Part II: Two record labels, Sony Music and Manifesto Records, are battling over the rights to use the names of the rock band Rage Against the Machine and its guitarist, Tom Marello, to promote an album that Marello recorded with another band in 1990. Manifesto asked a judge Thursday to sort out the matter, preempting a threatened lawsuit by Sony, which owns Rage’s label, Epic Records. Sony had earlier threatened to sue Manifesto over stickers on a re-released version of the 1990 album “Something Bitchin’ This Way Comes” by Marello’s old band Lock Up; the stickers say “featuring Tom Marello currently of Rage Against the Machine.” That band’s 1992 self-titled debut album has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, and a follow-up effort, “Evil Empire,” also was phenomenally successful.

QUICK TAKES

KTTV-TV Channel 11 will air “Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt: 27 Years to Freedom,” a half-hour news special that will include the first interview given to a Los Angeles television station by the former Black Panther after his release from prison, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. KTTV previously aired “Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt: A Case of Injustice?” in 1995. . . . CNBC will carry “The Quiet Boom: The Untold Story of California’s Economic Recovery,” a weeklong news series beginning on the cable channel Monday. The reports will be seen daily at 7 and 7:30 a.m., with expanded reports and live guests at 2 and 2:30 p.m. . . . Singer Billy Joel has recorded a new, never-before-recorded Bob Dylan song for his upcoming greatest hits album. It’s called “To Make You Feel My Love.” . . . The annual American Comedy Awards will air on Fox for the next three years, as will other George Schlatter-produced shows, including a new “American Comedy Honors” special next season saluting top comedians. . . . Choreographer Twyla Tharp will bring her company to Glendale’s Alex Theatre on March 17. The engagement replaces the Mark Morris Dance Company’s previously announced May 5 performance. . . . “Hercules & Xena: Wizards of the Screen,” a live theme park show based on the hit syndicated series “Hercules: Legendary Journeys” and “Xena: Warrior Princess,” opened Thursday at Universal Studios Florida.

Quotable: “Let some other nice, charming people watch people get hit in the crotch for awhile.” --Comedian Bob Saget, announcing that he will not be back as host of ABC’s “America’s Funniest Home Videos” next year. The show is not on the network’s fall schedule, but new episodes have been ordered for midseason.