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

AWARDS

SAG Selections: Roberto Benigni (“Life Is Beautiful”), Joseph Fiennes (“Shakespeare in Love”), Tom Hanks (“Saving Private Ryan”), Ian McKellen (“God and Monsters”) and Nick Nolte (“Affliction”) were nominated for best actor by the Screen Actors Guild Tuesday--with Sunday night’s Golden Globe winners Jim Carrey (“The Truman Show”) and Michael Caine (“Little Voice”) both left out in the cold. However, Globe winners Cate Blanchett (“Elizabeth”) and Gwyneth Paltrow (“Shakespeare in Love”) were both named for best actress, vying with Jane Horrocks (“Little Voice”), Meryl Streep (“One True Thing”) and Emily Watson (“Hilary and Jackie”). Supporting actor and actress nominees are James Coburn (“Affliction”), Robert Duvall (“A Civil Action”), David Kelly (“Waking Ned Devine”), Geoffrey Rush (“Shakespeare in Love”), Billy Bob Thornton (“A Simple Plan”), Kathy Bates (“Primary Colors”), Brenda Blethyn (“Little Voice”), Judi Dench (“Shakespeare in Love”), Rachel Griffiths (“Hilary and Jackie”) and Lynn Redgrave (“Gods and Monsters”). Films nominated for outstanding performance by the entire cast are “Life Is Beautiful,” “Little Voice,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “Waking Ned Devine.” The SAG Awards--in which winning actors are selected by their peers--can be seen March 7 on cable’s TNT.

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And the TV Nominees: The casts of “ER,” “Law & Order,” “NYPD Blue,” “The Practice” and “The X-Files” will vie for best drama ensemble while those from “3rd Rock From the Sun,” “Frasier,” “Friends,” “Ally McBeal” and “Everybody Loves Raymond” will compete for best comedy ensemble. In the best actor categories, the SAG nominees are David Duchovny (“The X-Files”), Anthony Edwards (“ER”), Dennis Franz (“NYPD Blue”), Jimmy Smits (“NYPD Blue”) and Sam Waterston (“Law & Order”) for drama, and Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld”), Michael J. Fox (“Spin City”), Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”), Peter MacNicol (“Ally McBeal”) and David Hyde Pierce (“Frasier”) for comedy. Best actress nominees are Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”), Kim Delaney (“NYPD Blue”), Christine Lahti (“Chicago Hope”), Julianna Margulies (“ER”) and Annie Potts (“Any Day Now”) for drama, and Calista Flockhart (“Ally McBeal”), Lisa Kudrow (“Friends”), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Seinfeld”), Amy Pietz (“Caroline in the City”) and Tracey Ullman (“Tracey Takes On”) for comedy.

POP/ROCK

The ManHole Tour?: A long-rumored and certain to be volatile tour co-headlined by Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love’s Hole will be officially announced today, with mid-March shows planned for both the Forum and the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim. The tour will kick off Feb. 28 at the Spokane Arena. The road show is expected to give a boost to each act, with neither Manson’s “Mechanical Animals” nor Hole’s “Celebrity Skin” albums having broken the million sales mark in the U.S. yet, despite huge amounts of press attention. Both bands are currently in Australia to perform at the annual Big Day Out festivals this weekend. Manson’s previous tour was met with protests over his lyrics and outrageous stage antics.

LEGAL FILE

Busey Arrested: Actor Gary Busey (“The Buddy Holly Story”) was released on $2,500 bail early Tuesday after being arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery for allegedly roughing up his wife during a Monday night dispute at their Malibu home. Busey, 54, was arrested after his wife, Tiana, told authorities the actor wrestled her to the floor. A sheriff’s deputy said that the woman showed “no signs of trauma or injury.”

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Couple’s ‘Contract’ Ruled a Forgery: Claudia Schiffer has won her lawsuit against Paris Match over the French publication’s story about an alleged “love contract” between the supermodel and her longtime fiance, magician David Copperfield. A French court ruled that the alleged contract--detailing the couple’s relationship as a business deal for publicity purposes--was forged, and ordered Paris Match to print a retraction and pay Schiffer damages. Copperfield has filed a separate $20-million lawsuit against Paris Match in New York, alleging that the publication knew the contract was a forgery but ran the story anyway.

QUICK TAKES

Michael Jackson was treated at a Miami hospital Tuesday for a small fracture in his right wrist during a stopover from South Africa. The musician’s spokesman said he didn’t know what caused the break but added: “It won’t hamper his activities.” . . . Monday’s premiere of the animated comedy “Dilbert” was the highest rated comedy series debut in the UPN network’s history, drawing almost 7 million viewers, according to early Nielsen estimates. . . . Jurors in Columbus, Ohio, took less than an hour Monday to acquit Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper Bizzy Bone--whose real name is Byron McCane--of assault and disorderly conduct charges that stemmed from a scuffle with a student barber. McCane had maintained that his bodyguards grabbed the barber, Terrance Harden, 26, after he himself had turned away. . . . A judge granted Brad Pitt a temporary restraining order Monday against Athena Marie Rolando, the woman found sleeping in his Hollywood Hills home a few weeks ago. In his petition, Pitt said Rolando began “a series of harassing and stalking” actions in September 1996. . . . Vladimir Malakhov will no longer dance the role of Lankendem in the Feb. 3, 5 and 7 Orange County Performing Arts Center performances of American Ballet Theatre’s “Le Corsaire.” He will be replaced by Keith Roberts, who recently danced the role of the Swan in Matthew Bourne’s “Swan Lake” on Broadway.