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MOVIES

Earmarked for Preservation: Three best picture Oscar winners--”Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957), “West Side Story” (1961) and “Wings” (1927)--are among the 25 films selected this week for inclusion in the National Film Registry, which now contains 225 feature films, documentaries, shorts and newsreels selected by the U.S. Library of Congress as vital for future preservation. Other films added to the registry include Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954), Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” (1940), Buster Keaton’s “Cops” (1922), Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” (1973) and Laurel and Hardy’s “The Music Box” (1932). Additional films include “The Big Sleep” (1946), “Harold and Maude” (1972), “How the West Was Won” (1962), “The Hustler” (1961) and “The Thin Man” (1934).

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Centennial Collection: President Clinton and Vice President Gore will join 1,500 film professionals in selecting the “100 greatest movies of all time,” the American Film Institute said Wednesday. The list, to be revealed in a three-hour CBS special in June, is to be the centerpiece of the AFI’s “100 Years . . . 100 Movies” campaign celebrating the 100th anniversary of American movies. Other elements of the AFI celebration include cable TV specials, theatrical re-releases, classic film festivals and “AFI Centennial Collection” video releases.

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Warhols Everywhere: In an effort to make Andy Warhol’s prolific film and video work more accessible to the public, New York’s Andy Warhol Foundation has donated its entire moving picture collection to four institutions, including two in Los Angeles--the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the bicoastal Museum of Television & Radio--which will receive copies of Warhol’s preserved films and television shows, respectively. The bulk of the donation, valued at a total of $6.7 million, will go to Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum, which will receive master prints of the films, the original videos and copyrights to all the works. New York’s Museum of Modern Art will receive the original films, along with a $730,240 grant to preserve and distribute the seldom-seen works.

QUICK TAKES

ABC has ordered 13 episodes of the proposed Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper sitcom reprising their “Mary Tyler Moore Show” roles as Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern. A fall 1998 premiere is scheduled. . . . Ray Charles, Anita O’Day, Tito Puente, Lou Rawls, Mel Torme and Nancy Williams are among 20 living musicians to be inducted into the International Jazz Hall of Fame during ceremonies in Florida today and Friday. The 26 posthumous inductees include Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Tommy Dorsey and Jelly Roll Morton.