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

MOVIES

Baby, You Can Drive Her Car: Felicity Shagwell’s red, white and blue convertible 1965 Corvette from “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” went up for sale over New Line Cinema’s new Internet auction site Wednesday and by midday Thursday already had garnered two bids of $200,000. The car, along with other “Austin Powers” items such as Powers’ “Swinger” license plate and Dr. Evil and Mini-Me’s costumes, are among auction items available through July 14 at https://auction.newline.com or AOL Keyword: MovieAuction. In addition to “Austin Powers” items, other initial auction lots include Rollergirl’s skates from “Boogie Nights,” police badges from “Pleasantville” and “Rush Hour,” the clown suit from “Spawn” and a pair of fuzzy boots from “Dumb and Dumber.” New lots will be posted on the Web site weekly.

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‘Culture for the Masses’: A controversial German film director plans to throw 100,000 marks (about $53,000) off the Reichstag parliament building tonight as a tribute to capitalism. “Money is the only thing that really gets people moving,” said Christoph Schlingensief, 38. “We’ll throw the money away and [people] can pick it up. That’s culture for the masses.” Last year Schlingensief urged Germany’s 4 million jobless to jump in a lake in Austria to try to flood then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl out of his holiday home. Only a few hundred did so.

POP/ROCK

Taking Matters in Her Own Hands: Madonna, the former Material Girl, has filed a $2.5-million lawsuit against her former financial advisors, accusing them of mishandling her taxes in 1992. The Manhattan Supreme Court suit accuses the firm Padell, Nadell, Fine, Weinberger & Co. of malpractice and breach of contract. Bert Padell, the firm’s senior partner, said the suit stems from Madonna’s having to pay $2 million in New York state income taxes that year; he had prepared her tax return saying she was a California resident, but the East Coast state determined otherwise. Madonna fired him in 1996.

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Rap Sheet: Rapper DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, and his wife, Tashera, were arrested on weapons charges Wednesday after police seized a semiautomatic handgun and 14 pit bulls from their New Jersey home. Police searched the home after the shooting Sunday of Simmons’ uncle and manager, Ray Copeland, who was wounded in the foot. Police refused to say whether Simmons is a suspect. The rapper already faces earlier charges in New York for allegedly attacking a man he claimed was bothering his wife.

STAGE

East West Season: The L.A. premiere of David Henry Hwang’s “Golden Child” will be the first of the writer’s plays to be presented in the Little Tokyo theater named after him, when East West Players produces it there Jan. 26-Feb. 20. Other plays in the East West 1999-2000 season will be the premieres of “Leilani’s Hibiscus” by Jon Shirota (Sept. 22-Oct. 17) and Euijoon Kim’s “My Tired Broke Ass Pontificating Slapstick Funk” (March 15-April 9), plus a revival of the Stephen Sondheim / James Goldman musical “Follies” (May 17-June 11).

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Goodbye ‘Saigon’: Citing a decline in audience levels, “Miss Saigon” will close its London run on Oct. 30 after a decade of performances. The musical--which will continue on Broadway--has taken in more than $250 million in London, including an estimated $35 million in profits, making it the third-most-profitable musical in British theater history (behind “Cats” and “Les Miserables”).

QUICK TAKES

The producers of the syndicated series “V.I.P.” have found another voluptuous blond to play Pamela Anderson Lee’s mother--former “WKRP in Cincinnati” star Loni Anderson. She guests on an episode that begins filming today. . . . . Shaun Robinson has been named co-host of the weekend edition of “Access Hollywood,” and also will serve as a correspondent for the syndicated show’s weeknight installments. Robinson was most recently an anchor at Miami’s Fox affiliate. . . . The Foo Fighters are off the bill, but Buckcherry, Insane Clown Posse and Moby have been added to Woodstock 99, July 23-25 in Rome, N.Y. Organizers also have announced that there will be several live Web-casts of the festival. Information can be found at https://www.woodstock.com. . . . VH1 will broadcast Eric Clapton’s Madison Square Garden charity concert on July 17 at 9 p.m. The show, held Wednesday night, also features David Sanborn, Sheryl Crow, Mary J. Blige and Bob Dylan. . . . Tickets for Ricky Martin’s concerts Nov. 13 at Staples Center and Nov. 20 at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim will go on sale July 11 at noon.