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ENTERTAINMENT

Sales Times ‘Sevens’?: Garth Brooks’ long-awaited seventh studio album, “Sevens,” will be in stores Nov. 25. The first single, “Longneck Bottle,” will be released to radio Friday, and Brooks will perform the song Nov. 21 on NBC’s “Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” The announcement comes just one day after management changes at Capitol Records Nashville; Brooks had reportedly refused to deliver the new album because of a dispute with the former label chief. Brooks has thus far sold 62 million albums, ranking second only to the Beatles in total U.S. album sales.

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Brando’s ‘Autumn’: The Colombian news magazine Semana reports that Marlon Brando has persuaded Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez to let him star in a film adaptation of Garcia Marquez’s 1975 novel “Autumn of the Patriarch.” Brando, 73, has vowed that the film about an aging Latin American dictator would be his last, Semana said.

DANCE

NPG Postponed: NPG (New Power Generation) Dance Company, led by the Artist Formerly Known as Prince’s wife, Mayte, has indefinitely postponed its Friday performance at the Wiltern Theatre, citing “marginal” box-office success in previous appearances. The 3-week-old, 21-dancer company performed in four other cities, starting Oct. 17 in Detroit, before deciding to revise its promotional campaign. Refunds are available at the point of purchase.

QUICK TAKES

Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella”--the ABC special that garnered tremendous TV ratings Sunday--on home video on Jan. 13. . . . Derick K. Grant will play the Savion Glover role in “Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk” when it plays at the Ahmanson Theatre March 11-April 26. . . . Kingsley Leggs took over the role of Coalhouse Walker in “Ragtime” Wednesday at the Shubert Theatre, replacing Brian Stokes Mitchell, who will move to the Broadway cast. . . . L.A. County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich has proposed renaming Los Angeles International Airport after Jimmy Stewart, saying the move would honor the late Oscar-winning actor while signifying “the importance of the entertainment industry” to Southern California. . . . The recording academy will honor tenor Luciano Pavarotti in New York Feb. 23 as the 1998 MusiCares Person of the Year. . . . Grammy-winning gospel artist BeBe Winans will be at Los Angeles’ Church of the Harvest today to tape a syndicated holiday TV special featuring appearances by Kim Fields, Hootie & the Blowfish singer Darius Rucker, All 4 One and Sounds of Blackness.