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TV & MOVIES

Honors for Spielberg, Kelley, Hanks: “Saving Private Ryan” won the top film award from the Producers Guild of America on Wednesday night, and its mastermind, Steven Spielberg, took home a special Milestone honor for his historic contributions to the movie industry. Since the inception of the Producers Guild awards in 1989, the top movie winner has gone on to garner the best picture Oscar every year except two. In television, meanwhile, David E. Kelley won the top honor for ABC’s “The Practice,” beating out his own second nomination in the category for Fox’s “Ally McBeal.” Actor Tom Hanks won the Nova Award for most promising TV producer, as well as another honor for non-series TV, for HBO’s “From the Earth to the Moon.”

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La Raza Nominees: CBS’ “Chicago Hope” and “Nash Bridges,” NBC’s “Law & Order,” ABC’s “NYPD Blue” and HBO’s “Oz” will compete for outstanding drama series during the National Council of La Raza’s 1999 American Latino Media Awards, being held April 11 in Pasadena and airing in June on ABC. Other nominees for ALMA awards--which recognize the achievements of Latinos in TV, film and music--include NBC’s “Jesse” and “Suddenly Susan,” HBO’s John Leguizamo show “Freak,” Galavision’s “Funny Is Funny!” and Showtime’s “2nd Annual Latino Laugh Festival” for outstanding comedy series or special; and Mariah Carey (UPN’s “Mariah Carey Around the World”), Placido Domingo (PBS’ “The Metropolitan Opera Presents ‘Samson and Dalila’ ”), Gloria Estefan (A&E;’s “Live by Request”), Enrique Iglesias (ABC’s “American Music Awards”), Luis Miguel (ABC’s “World Music Awards”) and Santana (VH1’s “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”) for best musical performance. There are no nominees for outstanding feature film, which a spokeswoman said was because “there were not enough Hispanic-themed films produced this year to justify a category.” That’s the same reason given for the combination this year of the comedy series and comedy specials categories. Meanwhile, actor Cheech Marin, who is nominated for both best actor in a film (“Paulie”) and best actor in a drama series (“Nash Bridges”), on Thursday received the group’s third annual ALMA Community Service Award during ceremonies at the Century Plaza Hotel.

POP/ROCK

Bruce, E Streeters Are U.S.-Bound in July: Bruce Springsteen will kick off his much-anticipated reunion tour with the E Street Band with 17 European stadium and arena dates, beginning April 9 in Barcelona. The American dates, Springsteen said Thursday, will run from mid-July through the end of September, with multiple shows planned for still-to-be-announced venues. The official E Street lineup includes Clarence Clemons on saxophone, Max Weinberg on drums, Steve Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren on guitars, Garry Tallent on bass, Roy Bittan and Danny Federici on keyboards, and Springsteen’s wife, Patty Scialfa, on backup vocals. Meanwhile, Columbia Records will release “18 Tracks”--a one-CD compilation of highlights from the “Bruce Springsteen: Tracks” boxed set--on April 13.

STAGE

Final Broadway Sinking: “Titanic,” the Tony Award-winning musical that appeared here in a touring production at the Ahmanson Theatre, will close its Broadway run March 28 after nearly two years. Despite its 804-performance run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, the show reportedly still will have not fully recouped its more than $10-million investment. The touring production, meanwhile, is currently playing in Denver.

QUICK TAKES

Barbara Walters may have garnered great ratings for her Monica Lewinsky interview on ABC on Wednesday night, but there were apparently plenty of other viewers to go around, as KCET-TV doubled its usual weeknight pledge total Wednesday, taking in more than $105,000 during two broadcasts of “Suze Orman: The Courage to Be Rich.” . . . Cable’s Bravo Network will pay tribute to the late singer Dusty Springfield tonight by repeating its 1994 special “Bravo Profiles: Dusty Springfield,” at 7 and 10:30 p.m. . . . Grammy queen Lauryn Hill will replace Britney Spears, who is recovering from knee surgery, on Saturday’s 100th episode of Nickelodeon’s “All That” at 9 p.m. Hill’s performance will be taped during her concert tonight at the Universal Amphitheatre. . . . Grammy winner Ricky Martin performed “La Copa de la Vida” on the Grammy telecast, not the title track from his album “Vuelve,” as mentioned in Wednesday’s Morning Report.