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

TELEVISION

Local News: Veteran KCBS-TV Channel 2 anchors Tritia Toyota and Paul Dandridge have been named the new anchor team of “CBS News This Morning” and “CBS 2 News at Noon” starting next Monday. Toyota had been co-anchoring the noon news with Kyle Kraska, and Dandridge was weekend anchor. Kraska, who also co-anchored the station’s morning news, will move to the weekend newscast and team up with anchor Julia Yarbough. . . . KNBC-TV Channel 4 news anchor Kelly Lange has been tapped to anchor local coverage on MSNBC starting in November. Lange will do two-minute news updates at 4, 5 and 6 p.m. that will cut into MSNBC’s national coverage. KNBC also is examining further expansion in MSNBC. Lange will continue to anchor the station’s 4 p.m. newscast but has been replaced on the 11 p.m. newscast by Colleen Williams.

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Swept Away: Fox announced its plans for the November sweeps Monday, which include the broadcast premieres of three movies and developments on prime-time series. “Die Hard 3: Die Hard With a Vengeance,” “Star Trek: Generations” and the latest version of “Miracle on 34th Street” will be screened Nov. 11, 18 and Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving night), respectively. Also, in an offbeat move, Richard Belzer will play his “Homicide: Life on the Street” character Lt. Munch on the Nov. 16 episode of “The X-Files.” Meanwhile, “King of the Hill’s” Hank will unknowingly buy drugs as fishing bait. . . . In another Fox announcement, the network has canceled “Rewind”--a sitcom starring Scott Baio and Mystro Clark ordered for this fall--without ever airing the program. The network postponed the premiere in August but had said the show was being revised for future airing. Two episodes were shot.

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True Tale: Vincent Perez (“The Crow: City of Angels”) and Linus Roache (“Priest”) will star in “Shot Through the Heart,” an HBO drama based on a true story about two best friends in war-torn Sarajevo, where the drama will be filmed for telecast in 1998.

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Children’s Festival: The Museum of Television & Radio’s Sixth International Children’s Television Festival will kick off on Nov. 15 with programming at the Beverly Hills museum on four consecutive weekends. Events will include screenings of internationally acclaimed children’s programs from the U.S., Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, India, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom. Children will be able to meet popular TV characters, including Snoopy, Ms. Frizzle, Pingu, Babar, Paddington, Snowman, Chuckie and Arnold. The festival--which also is held in New York--is underwritten this year by former Creative Artists Agency executive Bill Haber, who is an advisor to Save the Children Federation Inc.

THE ARTS

Marginal Support: A National Endowment for the Arts report published Monday suggested that the arts have become marginalized in American culture. Though there are more companies presenting classical music, dance and opera, support for these operations has diminished, according a report in the New York Times on the 193-page study. Arts institutions are often racially segregated, class-based and isolated from the “communities they claim to serve, but don’t,” claimed the study, which involved interviews with artists, arts officials, scholars and social critics. Compounding such alienation is the loss of arts education, a 50% NEA budget cut and an unprecedented drop in corporate and personal arts donations. The report suggested a possible antidote: the creation of a community-based arts advocacy campaign similar to the environmental movement.

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Distinguished Service: The Public Corp. for the Arts will honor recipients of the 1997 Distinguished Arts Awards at a 5 p.m. reception Monday at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Long Beach Mayor Beverly O’Neill will join community leaders in this tribute to long-standing contributions and leadership in the city’s arts community. Among the honorees in 10 categories are Cambodian sculptor Chum Sambath, conductor David Wilson and Wade Hobgood, dean of the College of the Arts at Cal State Long Beach.

MOVIES

Film Fest: The 14th Annual Israel Film Festival will celebrate 50 years of Israeli cinema Nov. 5-20 on all three screens of Laemmle’s Music Hall Theatre in Beverly Hills. The festival will present more than 50 of the country’s best new feature films, documentaries, TV movies and miniseries, as well as a student film program. In addition, the festival will include a retrospective of Israel’s top films over the last five decades. A benefit premiere screening of Yossi Somer’s “The Dybbuk From the Holy Applefield,” a Jewish version of the Romeo and Juliet theme, will launch the event Nov. 5 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.

QUICK TAKES

David Bowie will replace an ailing Mick Jagger as opening-night performer on “Live From the 10 Spot,” a new weekly music series premiering tonight at 10 on MTV. . . . Ticket information about the Cure’s Oct. 28 show at the Hollywood American Legion Hall is expected to be announced by the band on Oct. 27 during an in-studio appearance on KROQ-FM (106.7). . . . Yolanda Gaskins, former KTZN-AM (710) host, now can be heard Sunday nights on KABC-AM (790) from 10 p.m.-1 a.m., filling in for Doug McIntyre, who is on an extended leave of absence. . . . Cable’s Showtime will present the “13th Annual Hall of Fame” ceremony later this year or early in 1998.