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

FILM & TV

Capitol ‘High Noon’: More than 150 Teamster drivers whose work involves the entertainment industry intend to circle their production vehicles on the streets surrounding the State Capitol in Sacramento on Tuesday, the Film and Television Action Committee says. They will be there rallying with other industry workers--including directors, writers, actors, extras and grips--in support of pending tax-incentive legislation that is geared to fight the flight of California film production to Canada and other locations. “We’re calling the rally ‘High Noon in Sacramento,’ ” said Jack De Govia, action committee chairman. “We need to demonstrate our support for the bills before the crucial vote in the Senate tax and revenue committee. We think the deep anger in Hollywood at the destruction of the American film industry will guarantee an impressive turnout of the working men and women and business people whose livelihoods are being destroyed by massive incentives offered by the Canadian and other governments.”

New ‘Movers’: Today at 12:30 p.m., CNN launches “Movers,” a weekly 30-minute program featuring profiles of the business world’s movers and shakers. It can also be seen Thursday on CNNfn at 7:30 p.m. The series will be hosted by Jan Hopkins. Jeff Gralnick, executive vice president of CNN Financial News, said the show “will allow us to profile and report on the new generation that is affecting the way the markets run.” The debut profiles W. Randall Jones, the publisher of Worth, Civilization and Equity.

PEOPLE

‘Listen,’ the Millennium: With 1999 more than half over and 2000 on the horizon, a $40-million project called “Listen” is underway that will involve 99 film stars, musicians, writers and visual artists. The project, which will be produced by a British company, Tribute, aims to raise $99 million for Children of the Third Millennium, a conglomeration of charities and organizations such as International Save the Children Alliance, Nelson Mandela’s Children’s Fund and End Hunger Network. The campaign will include two one-hour international TV specials, two albums, two videos and a three-hour international television concert from India on Nov. 20, which is the 10th anniversary of the United Nations’ declaration of children’s rights. Among the more than two dozen artists already committed to the project are Goldie Hawn, Liam Neeson, Jeff Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Redgrave and Sting. Said Curtis: “We must listen to what is really going on for children, not just in our homes, but around the world--even if it is distasteful, even if it is not what we want to hear.”

‘Final Wake-Up Call’: Reflecting on the March car crash in which he nearly died, country singer George Jones says in the July 10 issue of TV Guide that he has only himself to blame. Jones, 67, who pleaded guilty to drunk driving and was fined $550, said he was talking on his cell phone and drinking from a half-pint bottle of vodka when he lost control of his sport-utility Lexus and slammed into a concrete bridge. “You know, I would have a beer or a glass of wine once in a while to relax. That particular day I don’t really know what happened. I have to take responsibility for it. I believe this [accident] was my final wake-up call.”

RADIO

Millennium Listening: If you’re staying home on Millennium Eve, you’ll be able to tune to KLSX-FM (97.1) and hear the LA Millennium Show live from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, billed as the largest New Year’s Eve celebration on the West Coast. The family-oriented event will include a 500-member marching band and a 1,000-person choir.

MUSIC

Millennium Commissioning: Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner has commissioned two prominent American composers to write a pair of huge works to be premiered in October by the New York Philharmonic, under music director Kurt Masur. The oratorios “Garden of Light,” by Aaron Jay Kernis, 39, and “Four Seasons,” by Michael Torke, 38, are to be offered as “Disney’s Millennium Symphonies.” Each calls for full orchestra, soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus and boys’ chorus, and will be played by the Philharmonic on Oct. 8, 9 and 12 at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. Eisner suggested the concepts for each piece. “The millennial transition is all about the passage of time,” Eisner said in a statement announcing the commissions, “so we tried to find a way to commemorate this momentous event in a way that would be timeless. And nothing is more timeless than great music.”

LEGAL FILE

Rapper Rapped: A court-appointed trustee overseeing M.C. Hammer’s finances is accusing the rap star of failing to declare some of his assets in bankruptcy proceedings. Trustee William Broach has asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Oakland not to release Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, and his wife from repaying their debts. Burrell, known for the song “Can’t Touch This,” earned an estimated $30 million from his recording career, but filed for bankruptcy in 1996 claiming debts of $10 million. Broach questioned Burrell’s claim that he had only about $60,000 worth of jewelry, and that he had sold most of it to strangers. In a 1993 insurance policy application, Burrell claimed $674,000 in jewelry. Eric Nyland, an attorney for the Burrells, responded that “the allegations in the complaints are wrong, and that will be proven in court.”