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

POP/ROCK

Dylan, Simon Double Bill: Bob Dylan and Paul Simon are teaming up for a summer concert tour in which the acclaimed singer-songwriters are expected to perform at least a couple of songs together during each show, sources confirmed Tuesday. This will be Simon’s first tour since 1991, while Dylan has remained almost constantly on the road in recent years, both on his own and in a recent package with Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison. Simon, who is coming off the failed Broadway musical “The Capeman,” is believed to be working on a new album that could be out before the June and July trek. Details, including Southern California dates, are still being worked out.

ART

MOCA Appointee’s Local Ties: Jeremy Strick--the curator at the Art Institute of Chicago who will succeed Richard Koshalek as director of Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art on July 1--may not be well known in local art circles, but he’s a native of L.A. with considerable family connections in the spheres of film and photography. His father, Joseph Strick, is a veteran film producer and director who has adapted “Ulysses” and “Tropic of Cancer” to film and won an Academy Award for his documentary “Interviews With My Lai Veterans.” And the curator’s brother, David Strick, is a prominent photojournalist whose work has been widely published in national magazines and newspapers and in a 1988 book, “Our Hollywood,” with text by Bret Easton Ellis.

TV & MOVIES

Mickey’s New Adventures: “Disney’s Mickey MouseWorks,” the Walt Disney Co.’s new Saturday morning children’s cartoon series, is slated to premiere May 1 on ABC. The half-hour show--which will air locally at 11 a.m.--features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto and Minnie Mouse starring together in their first original television series. The series, which industry sources have called the most expensive and ambitious project ever produced for children’s television, will feature an assortment of cartoon shorts of varying lengths.

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Sci-Fi Nominees: “Armageddon,” “Dark City,” “Deep Impact,” “Lost in Space,” “Star Trek: Insurrection” and “The X-Files: Fight the Future” were nominated Tuesday for best science-fiction film by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, which presents its 25th annual Saturn Awards June 9 in Century City. Additional film nominees included Jim Carrey (“The Truman Show”), David Duchovny (“The X-Files”), Anthony Hopkins (“Meet Joe Black”), Edward Norton (“American History X”), Bruce Willis (“Armageddon”) and James Woods (“John Carpenter’s Vampires”) for best actor; and Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”), Drew Barrymore (“Ever After”), Jamie Lee Curtis (“Halloween: H2O”), Meg Ryan (“City of Angels”), Jennifer Tilly (“Bride of Chucky”) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (“The Mask of Zorro”) for best actress. Nominated for best network TV series, meanwhile, were the WB’s “Charmed” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” UPN’s “7 Days” and “Star Trek: Voyager,” and Fox’s “The X-Files” and “The Simpsons.”

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VCR Alert: Cable’s Turner Classic Movies will air three films by the late Stanley Kubrick during its “31 Days of Oscar” programming. The 1962 film “Lolita,” which garnered an Oscar nomination for best screenplay, will be shown March 17 at 7:30 a.m.; “Spartacus,” which earned Peter Ustinov the 1960 best supporting actor Oscar and also won Academy Awards for art direction, costume design and cinematography, March 26 at 5 a.m.; and “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), which earned Kubrick a visual effects Oscar and a nomination for best director, March 28 at 10 p.m.

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Portraying Drug, Alcohol Abuse: The Miramax movie “Down in the Delta,” CBS’ “The Promised Land,” NBC’s “ER” and ABC’s “Sports Night” were among the honorees Tuesday of the third annual Prism Awards, recognizing accurate depictions of drug use and addiction. Presented by the Entertainment Industries Council in partnership with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, other award winners included talk-show host Montel Williams, the syndicated show “Leeza,” actors Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan (“When a Man Loves a Woman”) and actress Suzanne Somers. In addition, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences President Michael Greene was lauded for launching the anti-drug programs Grammy in the Schools and MusiCares.

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BET Auditions: Black Entertainment Television will hold open auditions Thursday and Friday at the Shark Bar (826 La Cienega Blvd.) for “dynamic, enthusiastic comedic talent” to serve as hosts for the cable network’s new nightly music variety show, “BET: Live From L.A.,” which is slated to premiere in the fall. Auditions will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days.

QUICK TAKES

Los Angeles dance great Bella Lewitzky will receive the 48th annual Capezio Dance Award, honoring individuals who have “contributed significantly to dance in the USA,” during ceremonies in New York on May 10. Previous recipients have included Rudolf Nureyev, Martha Graham, Robert Joffrey, Jerome Robbins and Fred Astaire. . . . Cable’s Romance Classics network will remember the late Joe DiMaggio by showing an installment of its “Great Romances of the 20th Century” series focusing on DiMaggio’s relationship with Marilyn Monroe, tonight at 5. HBO will also pay tribute to DiMaggio by repeating its 1997 documentary “Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?” on Thursday at 7 p.m. . . . Susan Sarandon, Celine Dion and Elizabeth Taylor will be the interview subjects this year for Barbara Walters’ annual post-Oscar show March 21 on ABC. . . . CNBC beat rival CNN in the news ratings for the first time with Friday’s coverage of President Clinton’s news conference with Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema.