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

TV & MOVIES

Fall Season Preview: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will preview highlights from several new series premiering in the fall on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, UPN and WB on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the academy’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre (5220 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood). A similar program on July 24 will preview new series from cable networks such as HBO, Lifetime, Nickelodeon, Showtime, TNT and USA. Tickets are $15 per screening.

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‘Eyes’ Video, Cut and Uncut: MTV will premiere the first video from Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” at 9 p.m. on Friday, the same day the film premieres. The video, Chris Isaak’s “Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing,” will premiere in its original form, but because of content considered too steamy by VH1’s standards and practices department, it will appear in an edited form whenever it airs before 9 p.m. Kubrick personally selected Isaak’s song--from his 1995 CD “Forever Blue”--for his movie, but did not direct the video. That job was done by photographer Herb Ritts, who has directed previous music videos for Janet Jackson and others. Isaak stars in the video along with model Laticia Casta.

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Directors’ Series: The American Cinematheque will bring 10 directors from around the world--including such established names as Britain’s Ken Loach and Japan’s Kinji Fukasaku, as well as emerging filmmakers to be introduced through a program called Absolut New Directors Showcase--to Los Angeles for the inaugural Universal Studios Hitchcock International Director Series, a weeklong program of screenings, panel discussions and events. The event, planned as an annual tribute to the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock, is scheduled for July 27 to Aug. 2 at the Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre home. Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, John Singleton, Curtis Hanson and Mimi Leder are among those on the event’s host committee.

POP/ROCK

Chart Stability: Limp Bizkit, the Backstreet Boys and Ricky Martin continue their stranglehold on the top of the nation’s pop album chart this week as the three leading sellers remain unchanged for the third consecutive week. Bizkit’s “Significant Other,” which has been No. 1 since its debut late last month, sold 335,000 units, easily topping the Backstreet Boys’ “Millennium” (265,000) and “Ricky Martin” (213,000). The No. 1 single: Will Smith’s “‘Wild Wild West.”

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Limp Arrest: Meanwhile, despite staying atop the album chart, things weren’t all rosy this week for Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst, who was arrested in St. Paul, Minn., for allegedly kicking a security guard in the head during the band’s Monday night concert. Possible misdemeanor charges were pending against Durst, 28. Police called the fracas “a case of mistaken identity,” noting that Durst apparently didn’t know the man was a security guard and thought he was harming a member of Durst’s entourage.

QUICK TAKES

Sting will record a new version of the 1968 Oscar-winning song, “The Windmills of Your Mind,” for MGM’s remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair.” The movie, opening Aug. 6, stars Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. . . . KABC-TV news anchor Harold Greene gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during 11:30 a.m. ceremonies today at 6906 Hollywood Blvd. . . .The WB network has changed the name of its new fall animated series from “The Downtowners” to “Mission Hill.” Network executives said they feared that the series--about young people living in a fictional city similar to Los Angeles’ Silver Lake area--might be confused with a forthcoming animated MTV series called “Downtown.”