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ENTERTAINMENT

Meet the Oscar Winners: “Visas and Virtue,” the Oscar winner for best live-action short, will be screened at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theater (800 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood) on Saturday and Sunday, as well as April 4 and 5, at 10 and 11 a.m. each day. A 15-minute Q&A; with the filmmakers will follow each screening; tickets are $5. The 26-minute short tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who defied his government’s orders in 1940 and issued life-saving transit visas to thousands of Jewish refugees.

New ‘Morning’ Host: After a three-day tryout last week, Nic Harcourt has been selected from more than 500 applicants to replace Chris Douridas as host of the influential “Morning Becomes Eclectic” music program on KCRW-FM (89.9). The English-born Harcourt, who has hosted a similar morning show in Woodstock, N.Y., for the past year and comes with what KCRW called glowing recommendations from new music specialists, will take over on April 20. In addition to hosting “Morning,” Harcourt will be KCRW’s creative music director. Douridas, who followed Tom Schnabel into the job in 1991, is leaving March 31 to concentrate full time on his role as A&R; executive at DreamWorks Records. The show will be hosted in the interim by a rotation of current KCRW staffers: Schnabel, Liza Richardson and Gary Calamar.

Positive ‘G’ Thing: Rapper Warren G has settled his trademark infringement suit against Garth Brooks over the use of the letter “G” in Brooks’ tour advertisements and merchandising items. Details of the settlement were not released, but the performers--referring to street usage of “G” as a reference to young people who have risen above drugs and violence--issued a joint statement that they “share these same goals. Therefore there was no point to fight about a positive symbol.”

QUICK TAKES

Karen Finley and Beck Hansen (known to pop music fans simply as Beck) will do performance art pieces at the May 7 gala benefit opening of the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s new space at Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave. The new museum site opens to the public on May 9 with art exhibitions by Liza Lou and Beck and his grandfather, Al Hansen. . . . TV academy hall of famer Norman Lear (“All in the Family”) has been named chairman of the committee to select future TV academy hall of fame members. . . . Actor Eric Stoltz will receive the L.A. Independent Film Festival’s annual Indie Supporter Award for being “instrumental in helping independent filmmakers realize their vision.” The award will be presented during the festival’s closing night, April 20 at the Directors Guild.