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THE ARTS

Music Center Honors: Actor Kirk Douglas, Broadway composer Jerry Herman, choreographer-performer Ann Reinking, composer-pianist-conductor Lalo Schifrin and country singer-songwriter Garth Brooks will receive the Music Center’s annual Distinguished Artist Awards on Nov. 4. The award, presented by the Music Center’s Club 100 support group, recognizes the honorees’ “great achievement and wide-reaching influence” in the artistic world. Previous winners have included Gregory Peck, Jack Lemmon, Robert Joffrey, Placido Domingo, Shirley MacLaine and Penny Marshall. The Nov. 4 ceremony will take place at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, hosted by Mary Hart of TV’s “Entertainment Tonight.” Proceeds from the event will help underwrite the Music Center’s BRAVO Awards program, which recognizes outstanding arts instructors in public schools.

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Broadway’s Women: Julie Andrews will host a one-night tribute to top female Broadway stars on Sept. 28 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Performers scheduled so far include Betty Buckley, Chita Rivera and Reinking. The performance, dubbed “Broadway’s Legendary Female Talents,” will be taped for an early 1999 airing on PBS’ “Great Performances,” and a CD recording and home video are also planned. Partial proceeds will benefit the American Foundation for AIDS Research and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

TELEVISION

HBO Goes Family: HBO announced plans Tuesday for a sister channel, HBO Family, scheduled to debut in February. The 24-hour channel is slated to include more than a dozen new shows--including animated fare for pre-schoolers, an educational after-school game show and new adaptations of book favorites such as “The Adventures of Paddington Bear” and “Goodnight Moon”--along with existing series including “The Little Lulu Show,” “Pippi Longstocking” and “Babar.”

MOVIES & VIDEO

More ‘Rocky Horror’: A new collector’s home video edition of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will feature two deleted musical numbers that have never before been available on video: “Superheroes” and “Once in a While.” The latest version of the 1975 movie--starring Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick and Tim Curry in a tale of a newly engaged couple who stumble upon the eerie castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his friends from the planet Transsexual--is due in stores Tuesday, and will also include behind-the-scenes footage.

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Spielberg’s German Medal: Director Steven Spielberg will be honored by German President Roman Herzog on Thursday when he receives the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Spielberg, who is being recognized both for his filmmaking success and for his work in examining the Holocaust (through the film “Schindler’s List” and by founding the Shoah Foundation, which documents victims’ eyewitness accounts), will be further honored Thursday night with an evening reception at Berlin’s Bellevue Castle.

POP/ROCK

Farm Aid Continues: Willie Nelson’s annual Farm Aid concert has been scheduled for Oct. 3 at Chicago’s New World Music Theatre, with a live eight-hour telecast on cable’s Country Music Television starting at 1 p.m. Scheduled performers include Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Phish, Hootie and the Blowfish, Martina McBride and Steve Earle. Since 1985, Farm Aid has provided more than $14 million in aid to American farmers.

QUICK TAKES

NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a prime-time special next Wednesday at 10 p.m. The program’s first foray into prime time will revisit many of the sketches and recurring characters from the show, along with highlights from past celebrity interviews. . . . Rocker Marilyn Manson will interview himself tonight at 7 in a live Webcast (at https://www.LiveConcerts.com and https://www.marilynmanson.net). The session, conducted at Sunset Boulevard’s House of Blues, marks the official launch of the latter site. Additionally, Manson performs Thursday on the MTV Video Music Awards. . . . Speaking of the MTV bash, the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Pras (featuring Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Mya and Wyclef Jean) have joined the show’s roster of performers. . . . Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, playing himself, will be kidnapped and held at gunpoint by an inept band of revolutionaries in an upcoming independent film, “Somewhere in the City,” the New York Post has reported. Although parts of the movie cast him in an unflattering light, Koch reportedly asked for no script changes. . . . Herb “The Bronze Buckaroo” Jeffries has replaced Tommy Sands in “Swing, Swing, Swing,” Oct. 4 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Sands left the production to work on a solo project. . . . The Laugh Factory on Sunset Boulevard will again this year offer Jewish High Holiday services for both Rosh Hashana (Sept. 21) and Yom Kippur (Sept. 29-30), with Rabbi Robert Jacobs presiding and Sandy Shanin Lasarow accompanying him as cantor. Admission is free, but advance reservations are requested to (213) 656-1336.