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POP/ROCK

Back at Work: Two of Frank Sinatra’s three children are reentering the public eye after their father’s May 14 death. Daughter Nancy Sinatra is set to perform at an Aug. 17 benefit at West Hollywood’s House of Blues. Tickets for the show--which will also feature the Temptations--are $100 and benefit the Heart of a Child Foundation, a charity funded by one of Frank Sinatra’s doctors, Hillel Laks. Meanwhile, Frank Sinatra Jr. will guest on Monday’s “Late Late Show With Tom Snyder” on CBS.

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Eerie Foreboding: A movie that INXS singer Michael Hutchence made just weeks before his death last November shows him suggesting to a young musician that he kill himself to win a place in rock ‘n’ roll history. Hutchence was found hanging from a noose in an Australian hotel room; the death was ruled a suicide. In the movie “Limp,” which is in post-production, Hutchence’s character refers to the headline-grabbing suicide of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain saying: “It was brilliant on his part. Otherwise, he would have just been another flavor of the day.” Co-star Robby Sutton told Details magazine that Hutchence performed the role with conviction but did not appear to be suicidal.

TV & RADIO

‘Seinfeld’ Updates: NBC says it won’t rerun a “Seinfeld” episode that offended Hispanics with a scene of Kramer trying to stomp out a burning Puerto Rican flag. Following complaints by the National Puerto Rican Coalition and the Hispanic Assn. on Corporate Responsibility--which had threatened legal action to prevent the episode’s future airing--NBC had apologized, saying that no offense was meant. It’s not yet clear whether the episode will resurface in syndication. In other “Seinfeld” news, on July 9 NBC will again present the “clip” show that accompanied the series’ finale. An additional 15 minutes of series highlights will be added to bring the program to a full hour, from 9 to 10 p.m.

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No ‘South Park’ Toys: Cable’s Comedy Central apparently means it when it says that the network’s foul-mouthed animated hit, “South Park,” is not for children. Though the show has proved a sales bonanza with items such as T-shirts and baseball caps (in adult sizes), the network has turned down all requests to license the show and its characters to toy manufacturers. “We are an adult show and we only want products geared for adults,” a network executive said.

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Tom Dixon Retiring at 82: “I feel like I’ve been beached,” says a sad Tom Dixon, 82, the Southland’s longest-running radio host. “My track on classical music is probably finished.” At the end of May, Dixon--who had hosted “Evening Concert” on KKGO-FM (105.1) since 1990--quietly left the station. “They made me an offer, but I couldn’t accept it because of the penalty with Social Security,” he said Thursday. Dixon, who started as a host in 1946 on the old classical station KFAC-FM (he was there 40 years), celebrated his 50th anniversary on air two years ago. Gary Hollis now hosts KKGO’s 8-10 p.m. “Evening Concert” three nights a week, with live remote broadcasts--including the L.A. Philharmonic on Tuesdays--airing the other two weeknights.

QUICK TAKES

Tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster Saturday at noon for KROQ-FM’s (106.7) sixth annual Weenie Roast & Fiesta, a June 20 Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre show with bands including Prodigy, the Wallflowers, Green Day and Third Eye Blind. Tickets are $35, with a limit of two per person. . . . Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, who was arrested for alleged heroin possession in New York last week, missed an L.A. court appearance on a different drug case Thursday because he is undergoing detoxification at a Ventura County facility, attorneys for both sides said. The hearing was rescheduled for June 25. . . . A Boston judge ruled Thursday that actor Woody Harrelson assaulted two photographers and unlawfully removed film from one of their cameras, but the judge left it to a jury to determine damages in the pair’s civil lawsuit. Harrelson had testified that he was protecting the privacy of his 2-year-old daughter when he scuffled with Star magazine photographer Steven Connolly and freelance cameraman Paul Adao in 1995. . . . The families of the late Brynn and Phil Hartman have designated three charities to receive contributions in the couple’s memory: Caring for Babies With AIDS, Race to Erase Multiple Sclerosis and Heal the Bay. The family also recommended that donations go to “any organization” involved with treating drug and alcohol abuse or Alzheimer’s disease. . . . “Melrose Place” star Lisa Rinna and husband Harry Hamlin (“L.A. Law”) welcomed a daughter, Delilah Belle Hamlin, on Wednesday.