ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

POP/ROCK

The Cashstreet Boys: The heartthrob juggernaut known as the Backstreet Boys has set another staggering standard--765,000 concert tickets sold in a single day, to rake in an estimated $30 million in grosses. All 53 shows for the Orlando, Fla., harmony group’s U.S. arena tour went on sale Saturday and promptly sold out, including four local shows, Oct. 14 and 15 at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim and Oct. 19 and 20 at the Great Western Forum. The quintet has shown a talent for bombshell sales out of the gate--its album “Millennium” set a record for first-week sales (1.13 million) in May. “Millennium” has now surpassed the 4.4-million mark, making it the best-selling release of 1999.

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Latino Ritmos: What is being billed as the first Latin music awards competition to be based on a public vote will be held Oct. 20 at the Universal Amphitheatre, it was announced Monday. The Ritmo Latino Music Awards--El Premio de la Gente (The Award of the People) show is expected to be televised in November on Telemundo. Ballots will be available Aug. 25 through Sept. 26 at all Vons and Ritmo Latino stores in California and Nevada. Nominees in 13 categories were chosen based on record sales. They include Ricky Martin’s “Vuelve,” Elvis Crespo’s “Suavemente,” Shakira’s “Donde Estan Los Ladrones?,” Enrique Iglesias’ “Cosas del Amor” and Mana’s “Suen~os Liquidos” for album of the year; and Iglesias’ “Esperanza,” Chayanne’s “Dejaria Todo,” Alejandro Sanz’s “Corazon Partido,” Los Temerarios’ “Como Te Recuerdo” and Jerry Rivera’s “Ese” for song of the year. Lifetime Achievement Award nominees are Rocio Durcal, Carlos Santana, Vincente Fernandez, Gloria Estefan and Juan Gabriel.

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Weiland Jailed: In an effort “to show that this will not be tolerated . . . [and] to help him make up his mind to stop killing himself,” L.A. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler sent Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland to jail on Friday for violating his probation on drug charges. Weiland--who had asked to attend another court-ordered drug program--was sent to the hospital ward at the L.A. County Men’s Central Jail and is due back in court Sept. 5. Weiland was already in an outpatient drug treatment program when he was hospitalized in July for a heroin overdose.

ART

Rivera Crowds: “Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution,” a popular exhibition of the Mexican artist’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, packed in about 180,000 people before ending its 11-week run on Monday. In an effort to make the Rivera show easily accessible to the community, the museum did not charge an extra admission fee or issue timed tickets--a decision that probably increased attendance but produced long lines on weekends. More than 11,000 visitors went to the show Aug. 8, a record day at LACMA for a non-ticketed exhibition. About 5,000 people viewed the show each day of the final weekend.

TELEVISION

Mastering the Cartoon Domain: In his first television role since his landmark self-titled series, Jerry Seinfeld will guest-star as the voice of an “arrogant supercomputer” named Comp-U-Comp on an episode of UPN’s animated series “Dilbert.” The stint reunites Seinfeld with “Dilbert” executive producer Larry Charles, who was an Emmy Award-winning writer on “Seinfeld.”

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Tube Notes: “ER’s” Eriq LaSalle has signed on for an additional three seasons with the NBC drama, in a deal that will reportedly earn him a total of $27 million. . . . Faith Ford (“Murphy Brown”) will guest on six episodes of ABC’s “Norm” this season, playing a probation officer and love interest for series star Norm Macdonald. Her role begins with the series’ second season premiere, on Sept. 22. . . . “The X-Files’ ” seventh season premiere--a resolution of last year’s cliffhanger season finale--has been delayed to Nov. 7, during the important November ratings sweeps. . . . Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting System has pulled the plug on its plans for a new cable network targeting women. “It is not in our best interest or the best interest of our affiliates to actively pursue the creation of the Women’s Network at this time,” the company said.

QUICK TAKES

KABC-AM (790) hosts Larry Elder, Dennis Prager, Al Rantel, John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou will join community leaders and elected officials in a town hall meeting today in response to the North Valley Jewish Community Center shootings. The meeting, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance (9760 W. Pico Blvd.), will be broadcast live on KABC. . . . Twentieth Century Fox has delayed production on its upcoming Tom Cruise-Steven Spielberg pairing, “Minority Report,” until January, “due to the availability of the actors in the film.” The move pushes back the movie, which was expected to open next June, to the 2000 holiday season, thus distancing it from Cruise’s sequel “Mission: Impossible 2,” which is under production and slated to open in May. . . . Up to 4,000 Elvis Presley fans--including many dressed like their idol--gathered at Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis on Sunday night to mark the 22nd anniversary of his death.