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

RADIO

Jackson Scores: The first Arbitron returns comparing the ratings of former KABC-AM (790) weekday host Michael Jackson, whose show aired from 9-11:45 a.m., and his successor Ronn Owens are in, and Jackson’s were better. Among listeners 12 and older for the spring quarter that ended in late June, Jackson, a 31-year KABC veteran whose last weekday show was July 3, had a 3.2% share of audience, while Owens, a longtime KGO-AM San Francisco host whose show began here July 14, had 2.3% for the summer quarter. Among listeners 25-54, which advertisers target, Jackson had 1.7% and Owens, 1.1%. Jackson, who now airs weekends from 10 a.m.-1 p.m., also upped the ratings over the previous host in that slot, Susan Estrich, from 1.7% to 2.1% among listeners 12 and older, and from 0.5% to 1.1% among those 25-54. KABC explains that with any new host, “expectations” are that they will go down. “It’s unfair to judge any personality by three months,” Erik Braverman, assistant program director, said. “It doesn’t happen overnight.” Says Jackson, who was pleased at his weekend results: “[Ronn] is new on the job and has a reputation of being a ratings marvel. Maybe time will tell.”

ART

Rembrandt Unveiled: The restored Rembrandt painting “The Danae” is currently on display at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, 12 years after it was attacked by a man who threw acid on the canvas and slashed it with a knife. The museum’s director Mikhail Piotrovsky said in a TV interview that only so much could be done to save the badly damaged masterpiece. “The former ‘Danae’ does not exist any longer, and we have to reconcile ourselves to the idea,” he said. The painting is now behind bulletproof glass.

MOVIES

Screenwriters Receive Fellowships: Five new screenwriters have been selected to receive this year’s Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Each award is worth $25,000. Recipients, who will be honored at a dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov. 12, are Glen C. Craney, Scott Ferraiolo (announced as a finalist under the pseudonym Dante Scott), Anthony J. Jaswinski, Karen L. O’Toole and Michele Sutter.

THEATER

Much Ado About ‘Ballyhoo’: “The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” Alfred Uhry’s 1997 Tony-winning play about two Jewish cousins in Atlanta in 1939, will cap a three-play series offered by Broadway/L.A. next year at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills. The schedule includes the return of Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” Jan. 20-Feb. 2; Penn & Teller, March 31-April 12; and “Ballyhoo” Sept. 8-20.

QUICK TAKES

On Thursday at 11:30 a.m., Oscar winner Al Pacino will add an imprint of his hands and feet in wet cement in the forecourt of Mann’s legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. His latest film, “The Devil’s Advocate,” opens Friday. . . . Tom Arnold has been named grand marshal of the 66th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade, which is scheduled for Nov. 30. It will air live on KTLA. . . . David Hyde Pierce and Sela Ward will host “The 19th Annual CableAce Awards,” which airs Nov. 15 on TNT. The telecast will be broadcast from the Wiltern Theatre.