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PEOPLE

Latino Honors: Martin Sheen was among those scheduled to be honored at Monday night’s 12th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Also being honored are singer Celia Cruz, classical musician Abraham Chavez, author Luis Rodriguez, basketball player Rebecca Lobo and former Surgeon General Antonio Coello Novello. Meanwhile, a newer event devoted to recognizing achievement in Latino culture has its annual gala tonight, also in the nation’s capital. The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, co-founded in 1997 by actors Jimmy Smits, Esai Morales and Sonia Braga to support and promote opportunities for Latinos in the arts and entertainment fields, is scheduled to have a black-tie dinner at the Mayflower Hotel. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is slated to attend.

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Gov. ‘Grandpa’?: Al Lewis, who played the vampire Grandpa on the 1964-66 cult TV series “The Munsters,” filed suit Monday to get listed on the ballot for governor of New York as “Grandpa.” The 88-year-old Lewis is running as the candidate of the pro-environment Green Party. In his lawsuit against the state Board of Elections, he said that not listing him as “Grandpa Al Lewis” on the ballot “would create confusion among voters” and interfere with their right to cast an informed vote. A judge gave the elections board until Friday to explain why it refused Lewis’ request.

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Nureyev Cleared: Rudolf Nureyev, the late Russian ballet star who defected to the West during the height of the Cold War, has been posthumously “rehabilitated” in his native country. Nureyev, who was a star of Leningrad’s Kirov ballet theater, was granted political asylum in France in 1961. A year later, he was convicted in absentia in the Soviet Union of high treason and sentenced to seven years in prison. Alexander Zvyaginstsev, a senior official in the prosecutor general’s office, was quoted Monday by the Tass news agency that Nureyev, who died of AIDS five years ago, had been forgiven under the law on the rehabilitation of “victims of political repressions.”

POP/ROCK

They Want Their MTV: Young people would rather give up food for a day than music according to a new survey from MTV and the research firm, Youth Intelligence. The Music Trendsetters Survey interviewed 300 subjects from the ages of 14-30 who are identified as being “on the edge” with music and popular culture. The majority would rather be music stars (56%) than movie stars (24%), famous politicians (10%), sports stars (7%) or TV stars (4%). Those surveyed would also rather listen to music and watch videos (65%) in their spare time, followed by reading books (14%), going to the movies (12%), watching non-music TV (5%) or using the Internet (4%).

ART

O’Keeffe Center: In a move that unites the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe with the artist’s former summer home near the small town of Abiquiu, N.M., the major backer of the museum has purchased the house and its surrounding 12 acres. The property will be used for an O’Keeffe study center, expected to open in 1999 after renovation. The Burnett Foundation of Fort Worth acquired the house and grounds for $3 million from O’Keeffe’s associate and friend, sculptor Juan Hamilton, who inherited the property in 1987 after O’Keeffe’s death. An additional $350,000 will go to the Presbyterian Church, which had an option to buy the property and operates the adjacent 21,000-acre Ghost Ranch, an education and conference center.

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Paintings Stolen: Two armed men wearing black masks stole two valuable Impressionist paintings from the Fine Arts Museum of Nice on Monday after taking the curator, Jean Fournis, hostage. The masked men accosted Fournis at his house and drove him to the museum, where he was bound and gagged, along with the caretaker and another employee, and locked in the library. The bandits took an 1897 painting by Claude Monet called “The Cliffs of Dieppe” and an 1890 painting by Alfred Sisley, “The Alley of the Poplars.” Both paintings belong to the French government, and according to Fournis, will be difficult to sell.

TELEVISION

Yessss!: Sportscaster Marv Albert will visit “The Late Show With David Letterman,” Wednesday on CBS. Albert, who recently returned to television as anchor of “National Finance SportsDesk” on the MSG cable network, is a longtime staple on Letterman’s late-night series and last visited “Late Night” in November 1997.

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Flashback: Two ‘70s TV icons, Danny Bonaduce of “The Partridge Family” and Marion Ross of “Happy Days,” are set to be guests on upcoming episodes of Fox’s retro-comedy “That ‘70s Show.” Bonaduce will play the boss of a fast-food burger joint on Sunday’s episode; Ross will make her first of three appearances as Grandma Foreman on Oct. 4.

QUICK TAKES

MVP Home Entertainment will release President Clinton’s four-hour grand jury testimony on video for $9.99. MVP says it will ship tapes as early as Thursday. MPI Home Video had previously announced its plans to sell the tapes for $14.98. . . . Madonna and Nathan Lane have joined the 14th annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood this Sunday. Sign-in begins at 8:30 a.m. and the walk commences at 10 a.m. To register call (213) 466-WALK. . . .