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ART

What, No Soup Cans?: Taking a cue from the late pop artist who is its namesake, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh celebrated the new year by collecting items from area residents for a time capsule that is to be stored at the museum for the next 100 years. Warhol began compiling time capsules in 1974 and filled some 608 packing boxes before his death in 1987. Museum archivists have opened 95 of the crates so far, finding everything from undiscovered paintings to check stubs to a piece of cake. Pittsburgh residents were asked through local media to bring small items for the new capsule that they believed reflected the city in 1997; one woman, for instance, contributed CDs featuring Pittsburgh rock bands, while another donated an empty ring box with the name of a longtime downtown jeweler that recently went out of business.

MOVIES

‘Amistad’ Follow-Up?: Director Steven Spielberg told a Jerusalem newspaper that he is thinking of making a movie about eight American pilots who went to Israel after the 1967 Mideast War to train Israeli Air Force pilots. Spielberg said he got the idea after sitting in the cockpit with an Israeli pilot on an El Al Airlines flight from New York to Tel Aviv. “I asked him about his life, and I found that he was a war hero during the Six Day War,” Spielberg told the paper. “He told me about the history of the [Israeli] air force, and how everything started from eight Americans. I didn’t know about that.”

TELEVISION

The Plane! Again!: In the everything-old-is-new department, sources say that ABC has made a deal to premiere next season a series based on “Fantasy Island,” a show that ran on the network from 1978-84. Rights to the revival, expected to feature a new cast, were pursued by various networks, including CBS and UPN. Barry Sonnenfeld, director of the movie “Men in Black,” will be among the project’s producers. ABC officials couldn’t be reached, and a spokesman for the studio behind the program, Columbia TriStar Television, declined comment. The original series starred Ricardo Montalban as Mr. Roarke and the late Herve Villechaize as his sidekick, Tattoo. There has also been talk about bringing back “The Love Boat”--which aired with “Fantasy Island” on Saturday nights--in the fall.

Coming to Aisle 4: Funny man Louie Anderson, 44, will soon be playing in America’s grocery stores. Campbell’s Soup Co. plans to introduce a new Franco-American pasta brand, “Life With Louie” (named after Anderson’s Fox kids’ show), this month. The pasta in tomato sauce will carry a cartoon caricature of the portly comic on its red-and-white label. “It’s weird,” Anderson said. “I used to eat their tomato soup every day when I was growing up in St. Paul.”

POP/ROCK

Party Plans?: Producer-rapper Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs has a dream for the millennium: To spend New Year’s Eve 1999 ushering in the new century with New York’s youth. “I’m trying to be so successful that at that point in time [I would be able to] rent Central Park for all the kids of Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx,” the hip-hop star told the New York Times. “I’m going to throw them a big ol’ party and invite the whole world. If I could have a dream, that’s it.”

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Diva to the Rescue: Audience members got an extra dose of holiday cheer when noted mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne stepped in at the last minute for the flu-stricken Olga Borodina at the New York Philharmonic’s annual New Year’s Eve pension benefit. Horne, who had planned to be only a spectator at the event, received a frantic call from Philharmonic Executive Director Deborah Borda at 6:45 p.m. the night of the performance; after thinking it over for five minutes, the singer agreed to pinch-hit, saying, “I must be crazy, but OK.” The audience stood and applauded when Horne took the stage, then rose again after she sang arias from “Carmen” and “Samson et Dalila.”

QUICK TAKES

A 1927 Isotta Fraschini Tipo roadster commissioned by Rudolph Valentino and built in Italy for $25,000 will be auctioned along with 800 other cars Jan. 15-18 at the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. Among the other vehicles up for sale is “Home Improvement” star Tim Allen’s souped-up yellow-and-white 1995 Saleen Mustang. . . . British actress Helen Mirren (“Prime Suspect”) wed American director Taylor Hackford (“The Devil’s Advocate”) in a small Scottish church on New Year’s Eve. Mirren, 51, and Hackford, 53, have lived together for 12 years. . . . CBS’ “The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder” celebrates its third anniversary next week, when it will air highlights of clips culled from the show’s 650 episodes.