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POP/ROCK

Iglesias Coming to O.C.: Julio Iglesias will perform four shows at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Oct. 23-26, center officials announced Wednesday. The Costa Mesa shows will be underwritten by Mikimoto, a Japanese pearl manufacturer with a retail store in South Coast Plaza. Tickets go on sale Sept. 14.

Nurse Rimes: The mother of a 7-year-old car accident victim is crediting country singer LeAnn Rimes with bringing her daughter out of a coma. On Aug. 6, Rimes visited Tamra Diehl, who was injured July 17 when she was thrown from her mother’s pickup truck in Reno. The girl reportedly stirred and her eyelids fluttered as Rimes sang a lullaby version of her hit “Blue.” The girl, still hospitalized, now “laughs and everything,” said mother Debra Diehl, who has pleaded innocent to drunken driving charges from the accident. “She started coming out of the coma ever since . . . Rimes came here.”

TV & MOVIES

Dietrich Auction: In an ongoing parade of celebrity auctions, Sotheby’s in Beverly Hills will offer the contents of the late German actress and singer Marlene Dietrich’s New York apartment on Nov. 1. The collection, valued at a total of about $300,000, includes French Provincial furniture, two landscapes by French painter Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a gold Van Cleef & Arpels cigarette case that was a gift from Charles Boyer and designer clothing by Karl Lagerfield, Dior, Courreges and Chanel.

TV Academy Head: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has elected a new president, longtime TV executive and producer Meryl C. Marshall. She becomes the third woman elected to the TV academy’s top post, following actresses Gail Patrick Jackson (1960-62) and Diana Muldaur (1983-85). Marshall succeeds Richard H. Frank, who had served the maximum two successive terms.

QUICK TAKES

“The X-Files” brought otherworldly success to cable’s FX Tuesday night when the original series premiere attracted about 1.2 million viewers ages 18-49, beating out all other cable networks in that coveted age group, even though only about half of homes with cable actually receive FX. The 8 p.m. showing was the highest-rated premiere of a network series ever on cable, according to Nielsen, attracting a higher percentage of available viewers than the previous record holder, “Murder, She Wrote,” which began on USA in 1988. . . . About 100 people were evacuated from the nearly completed Getty Center in the Sepulveda Pass Tuesday after a sulfur dioxide leak, fire officials said. The leak came from a a tank of sulfur dioxide, which is used in restoring and preserving artwork. The Getty Center opens on Dec. 16.