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TELEVISION

Grammy Hall of Fame: The soundtracks from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “The Sound of Music,” the original Broadway recording of “Fiddler on the Roof,” and pop tunes including the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and the Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” are among the 140 recordings selected by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences for inclusion in the Grammy Hall of Fame. The new selections--honored as “early recordings of lasting qualitative and historical significance”--join 123 previous inductees; although only five or six recordings were added annually in previous years, the academy selected a larger batch of recordings this year to “make the hall more complete.” Additional inductees include Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” Elvis Presley’s “That’s All Right,” Aretha Franklin’s “Respect,” John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay,” the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” the Temptations’ “My Girl,” Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary,” the Who’s “Tommy,” Henry Mancini’s “Music From Peter Gunn” and the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds.”

MOVIES

‘Devil’s’ Settlement: Sculptor Frederick Hart and the National Cathedral have settled their dispute against Warner Bros. over the use of Hart’s sculpture “Ex Nihilo” in the film “Devil’s Advocate.” In a statement, Warner Bros. said it would “make changes to certain portions of the film to eliminate any perceived confusion in future distribution of the movie,” referring to its upcoming release on video.

Chinese Film Screenings: Chinese filmmakers, executives and government officials will converge on UCLA today and Sunday as part of “Celebration of Chinese Cinema,” a five-city North American tour planned as an annual part of the Chinese Spring Festival celebrations. Participants include acclaimed director Zhang Yimou (“Raise the Red Lantern”), actress Ning Jing (“The Winner”) and Zhao Shi, China’s vice minister of radio, film and television. Seventeen feature films from mainland China--most of which have not been seen here previously--will be screened at UCLA’s Bridges Theater. (For a schedule, call [888] 980-8860.)

ART

Multinational Exhibition: The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the National Museum in Stockholm have joined forces to restore the once glittering reputation of Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries in a retrospective exhibition, “Adriaen de Vries 1556-1626, Imperial Sculptor.” An eminent figure in his day, known as a superb technician and sculptor to European royalty, De Vries had fallen into relative obscurity until 1989, when his “Male Figure,” a 30-inch-tall bronze nude, was discovered among consignments to an auction of ordinary garden sculpture--where it was expected to fetch a paltry $2,000 to $3,000. The bronze was transferred to a sale of first-rate art at Sotheby’s London and sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum for $10.7 million, a record auction price for sculpture. The unprecedented show--scheduled to open in Amsterdam in December, followed by a stop in Stockholm before winding up in Los Angeles in the fall of 1999--will bring together 50 bronzes, including the Getty’s “Male Figure,” along with 20 prints and drawings.

Looted Art Hearings: The directors of four prestigious American museums told Congress Thursday that they were confident few of the tens of thousands of artworks stolen by Nazis during World War II were in their collections. The directors of New York’s Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, Washington’s National Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago appeared as part of a series of congressional hearings on the restitution of assets seized or extorted by the Nazis from Holocaust victims. Although the problem of looted art is more common in European museums, the directors promised that if such art is found within their holdings, it would be returned if rightful ownership could be documented. Met director Philippe de Montebello told the panel that only two claims involving war-era looted art had been filed against the Met; none of the other three museums had ever been hit with such claims, the directors said.

QUICK TAKES

Veteran producer-director Stanley Kramer, 84 (“The Defiant Ones,” “Judgment at Nuremberg” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”), will receive the NAACP’s Vanguard Award for lifetime achievement at the NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena tonight. . . . Supporting actor Oscar nominee Burt Reynolds (“Boogie Nights”) has agreed to do a trilogy of films for cable’s TNT, starring as a “veteran ex-cop/ex-con.” . . . The Artist Formerly Known as Prince will hold an Internet chat at https://www.love4oneanother.com/groove.htm tonight at 8. He will also play clips from “Crystal Ball.” . . . Buddy, the golden retriever who charmed moviegoers with his high-flying performance in Disney’s “Air Bud,” died Tuesday of complications from cancer. He was believed to be 9 or 10 years old. . . . Contrary to earlier reports, Lyle Lovett is not among those scheduled to perform in “Not in Our Name, Dead Man Walking: The Concert,” a March 29 benefit at the Shrine Auditorium, organizers said Friday.