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

TELEVISION

‘Rewind’ Erased: Fox has yanked one of its new programs--”Rewind,” a sitcom starring Scott Baio and Mystro Clark--less than three weeks before its scheduled premiere. According to Fox, the series is “still evolving” and remains a candidate to play at a later date, though sources say the project may be scrapped. (Last season Fox produced the comedy “Secret Service Guy,” then announced the program would never air.) Warner Bros. Television, which produces “Rewind,” said two episodes have already been shot. Fox will fill the void left at 8 p.m. Thursdays with “Living Single,” which the network had relegated to a backup role. Two other new Thursday night shows, “Between Brothers” and “413 Hope St.,” are still slated to premiere Sept. 11.

MOVIES

Slater Entering Rehab?: According to People magazine, actor Christian Slater is “embarrassed” about his recent run-in with authorities in Los Angeles and has entered rehab. The actor’s 14-year-old brother, Ryan, told People magazine: “He knows he’s done wrong and he’s entered rehabilitation at his own will.” Slater, who admitted he had been drinking for days, got in trouble at a Los Angeles apartment where he allegedly roughed up his girlfriend, bit a man, assaulted another and tried to grab a gun from a police officer. Slater’s publicist Michael Sitrick refused comment on the report Monday.

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Oldman Wins in Edinburgh: British actor Gary Oldman’s first venture into movie making, “Nil by Mouth,” won the top award Sunday at the 51st Edinburgh film festival. Oldman’s film, a view of working-class alcoholism and domestic violence, won the Channel Four Director’s Award. A close runner-up was a controversial film about a cystic fibrosis sufferer who blots out his agony through masochistic self-mutilation. The awards were presented by actors Sean Connery and Michael Caine, both stars of the late John Huston film, “The Man Who Would Be King,” which was screened in the final event of the festival.

POP/ROCK

Naughty Tupac Tribute: Naughty by Nature has recorded “Mourn You Till I Join You,” a song paying homage to the late Tupac Shakur. Radio and video airplay of “Mourn You Till I Join You” are scheduled to precede the Sept. 13 anniversary of Tupac Shakur’s death. The video was co-directed by David Nelson and Treach, lead rapper of Naughty by Nature. “Even though I couldn’t fit seven years of friendship into one song, I felt the need to put something out there to the world, so people won’t forget Tupac,” said Treach, who made his film debut with Shakur in “Juice.” “Tupac touched a lot of people with his music.”

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Green Musicians: The musicians in the Seattle bands Pearl Jam and Soundgarden (which disbanded earlier this year) and several of their associates, have donated the funding for the Land Conservancy of Seattle and King County to purchase and preserve 220 acres of property in the Cascade Mountain foothills. The conservancy used the gift to buy the Hardscrabble Creek property, located east of Seattle, considered key to the preservation of the ecologically important Mid-Fork Snoqualmie Valley, from Cascade Mining. The conservancy has an option to buy another 60 adjoining acres. “Our purchase of this strategically important property will forever protect this extraordinary region from the impact of development,” said conservancy executive director Gene Dunvernoy.

THE ARTS

A Miro Finds a Picasso: The grandson of renowned Spanish painter Joan Miro has discovered a drawing by Pablo Picasso given to his grandfather as a gift, says a spokeswoman for the Miro family foundation. The previously unknown pastel wash drawing, approximately 32-by-20 inches, depicts a bullfighting scene, a common theme in Spanish-born Picasso’s work. Joan Punyet Miro was cataloging his grandfather’s library when he found an original Picasso inside a book dedicated to the art of bullfighting, said a spokeswoman for the Joan and Pilar Miro Foundation. The drawing was inscribed “For Miro, your friend always” and was dated 1963. Miro, a native of Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region, died in 1983 in Palma de Mallorca. Picasso died in 1973.

QUICK TAKES

Syndicated talk-show host Rolonda Watts has signed with Warner Bros. to appear as a recurring guest star on the sitcom “Sister, Sister.” She will play Viveca, a new love interest for the show’s star Tim Reid. . . . NFL Properties has signed singer Samantha Cole to perform at halftime of football games are part of the league’s “New Artists Tour.” . . . Santa Monica College’s Academy of Entertainment & Technology opened Monday with 140 students and $1.25 million in state funding authorized last week by Gov. Pete Wilson. “Students seem very excited,” a spokesman said. . . . Universal Studios Florida unveiled the world’s largest flock of plastic pink flamingos Monday as part of its King Gator’s Fundango celebration and a tribute to plastic pink flamingo creator Don Featherstone. Featherstone’s flamingos celebrate their 40th anniversary this year. . . . John Fogerty is coming to the Greek Theatre this Thursday.