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

TV & MOVIES

‘Sopranos’ Revisited: Never got around to watching HBO’s Emmy-winning mob series, “The Sopranos,” last season? Well, here’s another chance. HBO will repeat the entire 13-episode first season over the week of Dec. 26 to Jan. 2. Starting with the initial episode, the series will air different installments at 10 and 11 p.m. on Dec. 26 through 30, and at 9, 10 and 11 p.m. on Jan. 2. Meanwhile, the series begins its second season on Jan. 16.

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Games Networks Play: Encouraged by ABC’s success with “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” CBS has announced plans for its own game show, “Winning Lines,” a new version of a British game show. The program could debut by early next year. ABC, meanwhile, wouldn’t comment on speculation that “Millionaire” will regularly air three times a week starting in January, saying only that there are still “a couple of scenarios” in discussion. NBC is also developing a quiz show, a new version of “Twenty-One.”

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Sundance Lineup, Part 1: Lisa Krueger, writer-director of the 1997 indie hit “Manny & Lo,” is among 16 filmmakers whose new work has been accepted into the Sundance Film Festival 2000 Dramatic Competition. Kruger’s “Committed” stars Heather Graham and will be up against, among others, “Chuck and Buck” (from “Star Maps” director Miguel Arteta) and “Drop Back Ten” (by “Boys” director Stacy Cochran). Sixteen films were also accepted into the documentary competition, including “Paragraph 175,” the new film from Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Oscar winners for 1999’s “Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt”), and “Americanos: Latino Life in the United States” by festival veterans Susan Todd and Andrew Young (“Cutting Loose”).

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Don’t Mess With the Terminator: A Berlin court ordered a doctor Tuesday to pay Arnold Schwarzenegger $10,500 and to retract a 1998 radio prediction that the actor didn’t have much longer to live. Dr. Willi Heepe, a Berlin heart specialist and sports doctor who had never examined Schwarzenegger, made the comment while discussing the connection between anabolic steroids and heart disease. Schwarzenegger underwent surgery in 1997 to fix a congenital heart condition.

THE ARTS

New Philharmonic Post: Deborah Borda, who formally takes over as managing director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in January, has begun to reconfigure the institution. Tuesday she named Patricia Mitchell, former executive director of the Los Angeles Opera, as the orchestra’s chief operating officer, a second-in-command position and a new post at the institution. Mitchell, who worked for L.A. Opera for 11 years, left that position in June, shortly after Placido Domingo was named to take over the company in June 2000. Mitchell’s appointment at the Philharmonic comes in the wake of eight support-staff layoffs, in the works prior to Borda’s appointment, and the acknowledgment that the orchestra will post an as yet undisclosed deficit for this fiscal year.

Turner Prize Winner: Video artist Steve McQueen won Britain’s most famous and controversial art award--the Turner Prize--on Tuesday with his black-and-white silent films inspired by comedian Buster Keaton. Organizers of the $32,000 prize hailed this year’s entries as among the best in the prize’s checkered 15-year history, even though critics have accused the judges of falling for heavily hyped publicity stunts. One of the five finalists was Tracey Emin, whose controversial “My Bed” installation consisted of an unmade bed surrounded by debris such as discarded stockings and a used condom. Last year’s prize was won by Chris Ofili, whose elephant dung-marked Virgin Mary painting sparked outrage when shown in New York.

Theater Hall of Famers: Gordon Davidson, who has been at the artistic helm of the L.A. Music Center’s Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum since its inception in 1967, is among eight 1999 honorees to be inducted Jan. 31 into the New York-based Theater Hall of Fame. Davidson’s fellow honorees are Kitty Carlisle Hart, Hal Holbrook, Robert Morse, Jerry Orbach, Frances Sternhagen, Tom Stoppard and Teresa Wright. Induction ceremonies will be held at Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre. Founded in 1971, the Theater Hall of Fame annually honors a group of professionals for lifetime achievement in the American theater.

POP/ROCK

Bocelli’s Alternate 2000 Plans: Andrea Bocelli has booked a New Year’s Eve performance at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum, becoming the first artist to defect from New York’s troubled Celebration 2000 gala, which was drastically scaled back last week amid poor ticket sales. However, Bocelli’ promoter said that the tenor’s newly scheduled show will end by 10 p.m., leaving him the possibility to sing at another venue afterward. Bocelli was to have performed with Sting and Aretha Franklin at the Celebration 2000 event originally booked for the Javits Center in Manhattan. Publicists for Sting and Franklin, meanwhile, said they are waiting for further word on that show before making alternate plans.

QUICK TAKES

“Moesha” star Brandy, who was recently hospitalized for dehydration, has pulled out of tonight’s NBC special, “Christmas in Rockefeller Center.” NBC said only that Brandy was “unable to appear.” Meanwhile, an executive connected to “Moesha” said Tuesday that Brandy’s health is fine, and that the UPN series--halted since the actress-singer’s Nov. 11 hospitalization--will resume production next week. . . . Tickets to KROQ-FM’s 10th annual Almost Acoustic Christmas Dec. 11 at the Arrowhead Pond go on sale Friday at 7 p.m. at Ticketmaster outlets. Tickets to the 10-band event--including Beck, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple and the Foo Fighters--are $45 each, with proceeds to be split between three charities.