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

TELEVISION

Forget ‘Forgive’: “Forgive or Forget,” the first-year syndicated relationship/talk show in which participants decided whether to forgive those who had wronged them, has been canceled due to low ratings. Robin Givens had been brought in to host the show early this year to attract younger viewers. She replaced the series’ original host, Mother Love. In a statement Friday, Twentieth Television said it was ceasing production but had stockpiled enough episodes of the series, which airs locally on KCOP, to continue running through the May ratings sweeps. “We would like to thank all the talented people . . . who worked so hard,” the studio said.

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Tube Notes: ABC and Steven Bochco Productions are close to finalizing a deal for an eighth season of “NYPD Blue.” The series is averaging 16 million viewers a week this season. . . . Premiering opposite a rerun of NBC’s “ER,” ABC’s “Wonderland” attracted an estimated 13.2 million viewers Thursday night. While that improved on ABC’s average in the time slot, viewing of the show sank from 14.8 million people during the first half-hour--which came directly out of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”--to 11.6 million after 10:30 p.m. . . . Aaron Sorkin, creator of NBC’s “The West Wing,” brings members of the cast and creative team to the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills Monday at 5:30 p.m. for a seminar on creating the show about working in the White House. It’s part of the Leonard H. Goldenson University Satellite Seminar series, broadcast live to colleges around the country.

LEGAL FILE

Dr. Dre Prevails: A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of Dr. Dre in a dispute over a 1991 contract with a music industry executive, calling the deal “unconscionably unfair” to the rap singer. Judge Malcolm Mackey said the statute of limitations had run out on the contract. Dr. Dre, born Andre Young, said he never signed the contract in which he supposedly agreed to give Dick Griffey 25% of his profits from 1991 to 1993; in return, Griffey was to serve as the rapper’s mentor. Dr. Dre said he felt vindicated by the ruling. “Justice was served,” he said. Griffey’s attorney, Amanda Metcalf, said she will appeal.

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Zeta-Jones Sued: A woman who was a passenger in actress Catherine Zeta-Jones’ car when the actress got into an accident in Pacific Palisades last August has sued her, claiming she was injured in the crash. Zeta-Jones’ representative could not be reached for comment on Petra Von Oelffen’s suit. The actress is engaged to actor Michael Douglas, and the pair are expecting a baby later this year.

STAGE

Arthur Miller Revival: Arthur Miller’s first Broadway play, “The Man Who Had All the Luck,” will have its first American revival in 55 years at Ivy Substation in Culver City with previews April 7-9 and April 13-14, with a limited run Thursday-Sundays, April 15-May 21. A co-production of Finesilver Shows in New York and the Antaeus Company in Los Angeles, the play--about a young man who has the unlucky fortune of getting everything his heart desires--will be under the direction of Dan Fields, former resident director of the Disney Broadway musical “The Lion King.” “Luck,” which had its debut in November 1944, closed after four performances. “The power of Miller’s young voice astounded me,” Fields said. “The play’s central question is, ‘Do man’s actions have any influence on his fortune in life or is fate beyond one’s control?’ ”

ARTS

Tamayo Honors: The third annual Mario Tamayo Awards for Outstanding Dedication to the Arts in the Los Angeles community will be presented Monday evening in Santa Monica to painter and educator Henry Hopkins; Adolpho V. Nodal, general manager of Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs for more than a decade; and Andrea Van de Kamp, chair of the board of governors of the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County and chair of Sotheby’s West Coast. Tamayo, who died of complications of AIDS in 1994, is a former board member of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and AIDS Project Los Angeles.

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Museum Moves: Michael Shapiro, who had a brief, troubled tenure as director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992-93, has been named director of the High Museum in Atlanta, where he is now deputy director and chief curator. He will succeed Ned Rifkin, who recently became director of the Menil Collection in Houston.