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MOVIES

Love and Marriage: Actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett--who as a couple have even taken to coordinating their wardrobes during public appearances--have announced their engagement and will marry by year’s end, their publicists said Thursday. The marriage will be the first for Pinkett, 26, and the second for Smith, 29, who has a 5-year-old son. Smith has topped the box office two summers in a row with “Independence Day” and “Men in Black”; Pinkett has enjoyed more modest success with roles in “Set It Off” and “The Nutty Professor.”

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Disney Offerings: The fur coat and red dress worn by Glenn Close in “101 Dalmatians” and the brown-and-white polka-dot dress worn by Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman” are among the Disney movie items to be auctioned at Christie’s Los Angeles showroom on Dec. 11 in a benefit for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Additional items include Brendan Fraser’s loincloth from “George of the Jungle,” the Hummer driven by Sean Connery in “The Rock,” the blue Corvette driven by John Cusack in “Con Air” and a choir robe worn by Whitney Houston in “The Preacher’s Wife.” Admission to the 6 p.m. auction is $75.

TELEVISION

‘dlefnieS’: NBC’s ratings leader “Seinfeld” will offer its response to recent critics’ volleys Thursday when it airs an episode that runs backward. Called “The Betrayal,” the program will begin with the final scene and then gradually step back--by minutes, days or years--to unravel the story. Among the promised technological treats: When one character eats a lollipop, it grows bigger as the show steps back in time. The story will center on Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) attending a wedding in India of Elaine’s bra-less friend, Sue Ellen Mischke (Brenda Strong).

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Kelley Green: Producer David E. Kelley is going to be a busy man for quite a while. Two of his dramas--ABC’s Saturday night offering “The Practice” and CBS’ “Chicago Hope,” which now airs Wednesdays--have already been renewed for next season, with CBS keeping an option to extend the latter for two additional years. Kelley’s company has a third drama, the new Fox series “Ally McBeal,” which was picked up earlier for the full season.

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Crawford’s ABCs: Supermodel Cindy Crawford has signed a three-year deal with ABC to appear on various network programs, including “Good Morning America,” sporting events and specials. She will also be required to make personal appearances for both the network and its parent, the Walt Disney Co. As part of the pact, ABC may also develop series projects for Crawford.

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Coming Fare: The Bee Gees’ “One Night Only” concert, taking place in Las Vegas tonight, will be taped for airing on pay-per-view on New Year’s Eve, with screenings at both 6 and 9 p.m. Also airing on pay-per-view will be the Rolling Stones’ “Bridges to Babylon” tour, broadcast live from the St. Louis TWA Dome on Dec. 12.

POP/ROCK

Between Moon and a Hard Place: Whitney Houston will keep her engagement to sing at Washington’s RFK Stadium on Nov. 29, even though the event is actually a mass wedding ceremony for followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church. Houston’s spokeswoman, who noted that the singer will be paid in the “low seven figures” for her 45-minute performance, said that Houston was not aware the event was sponsored by Moon when she signed up, since it was presented to her as the family-oriented “World Culture and Sports Festival.”

QUICK TAKES

Talk-show host Rosie O’Donnell has adopted a daughter, Chelsea Belle, born Sept. 20. O’Donnell already has a son, Parker, 2. . . . Cable’s Nickelodeon--which has seen great ratings success since it began programming kids’ fare at 8 p.m. a year ago--plans to expand its kids’ prime-time block with a second half-hour of programming, from 8:30-9 p.m. weeknights, next fall. . . . CBS is switching the time slots for “Dellaventura” and “48 Hours,” with the Danny Aiello drama moving to Thursdays at 10 p.m.--opposite NBC’s ratings powerhouse “ER”--starting Dec. 4, while “48 Hours” moves to Tuesdays at 10 p.m. starting Dec. 9. . . . ABC has ordered two more years of its Friday night comedy “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.” . . . Fox has ordered “Significant Others,” a new hourlong drama from Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman, the creators of “Party of Five.” The series, scheduled to begin airing in mid-season, centers on three Los Angeles twentysomethings and their various relationships and business decisions. . . . Twentieth Television has halted production on “Home Team With Terry Bradshaw” but says it will await the full November sweeps ratings results before deciding whether to cancel the 2-month-old show. Locally, the low-rated program has been shifted to the undesirable 3 a.m. time slot on KTTV-TV Channel 11. . . . Echo & the Bunnymen’s show Saturday at the Freedman Forum Concert Theater in Anaheim has been canceled because of “scheduling problems.” Refunds are available at the point of purchase.