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

MOVIES

Bening Births No. 4: Annette Bening, who was very pregnant at last month’s Oscars, has given birth to a new daughter. It is the fourth child (and third daughter) for the “American Beauty” star and her husband, actor-producer Warren Beatty. Bening’s spokeswoman declined to give any details about when and where the baby was born, her weight or her name. However, the spokeswoman said Tuesday, “Everybody’s doing well.” Bening lost out on the best actress Oscar to “Boys Don’t Cry’s” Hilary Swank, but on Sunday she was awarded the British version of the Oscar from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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Fatal Filming Accident: A stand-in and photo double for actor David Morse (“The Green Mile”) was killed in Ecuador Sunday when a pickup truck he was riding in ran off a mountain road during filming of Castle Rock’s “Proof of Life.” Director Taylor Hackford called the incident that killed Will Gaffney and injured five others a “freak accident,” noting that it occurred during “an ordinary driving shot of a truck going less than 15 mph” and was not part of a stunt. None of the film’s principal actors were involved in the accident. The film--starring Morse as a kidnapped American engineer, Meg Ryan as his wife and Russell Crowe as a hostage negotiator--is due in theaters in December.

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Honoring Claire Trevor: Cable’s Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to Academy Award-winning actress Claire Trevor--who died Saturday at age 90--by airing five of her movies next week. The films will run daily at 3 p.m., starting Monday with “Key Largo,” for which Trevor won the best supporting actress Oscar in 1948. The additional films are “Murder, My Sweet” on Tuesday, “Johnny Angel” on Wednesday, “Crack-Up” on Thursday and “Born to Kill” on Friday.

PERFORMING ARTS

Who’s Afraid of Ticket Prices?: A limited number of $25 public rush tickets will be available Sunday for the 2 p.m. staged reading of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” starring Uta Hagen, who created the role of Martha on Broadway in 1962. Also in the cast for the one-show benefit at the Ahmanson are Jonathan Pryce, Mia Farrow and Peter Gallagher. Rush seats will go on sale at noon at the Ahmanson box office and must be paid for in cash, with a limit of two tickets per person. Regular prices are $50-$75 and can be purchased through the Ahmanson box office.

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UCLA Donations: UCLA’s Department of Music has been awarded $1.75 million from the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation to expand its music outreach, performance and education programs. Part of the grant will fund a new opera outreach program. . . . And the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center has received a $500,000 grant from the Los Tigres del Norte Foundation--newly established by the legendary norteno band in association with its record label, Fonovisa--which aims to preserve Spanish-language musical folk traditions.

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Moving On: Daniel Lewis, conductor of the Colburn Chamber Orchestra for the last three years, will relinquish his baton after leading the ensemble in its final concert of the season on May 20 at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in downtown Los Angeles. He will be replaced by Ronald Leonard, former principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Included on the program will be “Aurora,” a piece by Thea Musgrave commissioned by the Colburn school in honor of Lewis’ retirement.

TELEVISION

Support Wasn’t Enough: Montel Williams and his actress wife, Grace--who appeared together in numerous TV and magazine interviews after the talk-show host’s diagnoses with multiple sclerosis last year--are divorcing. “After going in separate directions for quite some time, Grace and I have decided to end our seven-year marriage,” Williams said in a statement, adding that the couple agreed to the divorce last November, but had since been “working out the details” such as custody of their two children. “[Grace] has been very supportive concerning my medical condition,” he said. “Yet it has been the challenges we’ve had as a married couple which have led to this . . . decision.” Williams, meanwhile, will receive the inaugural Man of Courage award at Nancy Davis’ annual Race to Erase MS benefit at the Century Plaza on April 28.

QUICK TAKES

Cable’s Bravo will pair with the Museum of Television & Radio in a new weekly series, “The Museum of Television & Radio’s Influences,” slated to premiere in August. Alan Alda will host the program, which will explore the work of prominent TV writers, directors, actors and comedians by examining those that have influenced their careers. . . . CBS has scheduled its tentatively titled movie “The Linda McCartney Story,” starring Elizabeth Mitchell (“Gia”) as the late Linda McCartney and Gary Bakewell (“Backbeat”) as Paul McCartney, for May 21. . . . President Clinton will take part in “Up in Arms: What Should America Do?,” a town hall meeting about gun control, tonight at 7 on MSNBC. Tom Brokaw moderates the forum from the University of Denver. . . . KCRW-FM (89.9) will air the first public debate between incumbent Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti and his challenger, Steve Cooley, on Friday at 1:30 p.m. on “Which Way, L.A?”