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

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MOVIES

Cannes Lineup: James Ivory’s “The Golden Bowl,” Ken Loach’s “Bread & Roses,” Lars von Trier’s “Dancer in the Dark” and Joel Coen’s “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” were named Tuesday as part of the official competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, taking place May 10-21 in the French Riviera city. Among the rest of the 19 films selected for the competition are Neil Labute’s “Nurse Betty,” James Gray’s “The Yards,” Nagisa Oshima’s “Taboo,” Edward Yang’s “A One and a Two,” Im Kwon Taek’s “Chunhyang,” Amos Gitai’s “Kippur” and “The Faithless,” directed by actress Liv Ullmann. French director Luc Besson will head the festival’s jury.

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Crash-Landing: A replica of a World War II-era Japanese dive bomber plane crashed on a small island off Honolulu Monday during filming of Disney’s big-budget movie “Pearl Harbor,” but the stunt pilot suffered only a broken finger and cuts, a Disney spokeswoman said Tuesday. The plane clipped a palm tree and landed upside down on a Ford Island airstrip shortly after 11 a.m., a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said, adding that no buildings were damaged and only the unidentified pilot was on board. The Michael Bay-directed “Pearl Harbor,” with a reported budget of $135 million, stars Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale and Cuba Gooding Jr. Filming is expected to be completed in May.

POP/ROCK

Will Art Imitate His Life?: Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and his production company, Jagged Films, are teaming with director Martin Scorsese on a Hollywood movie about a pop star. Tentatively titled “The Long Play,” the project is being billed as a no-holds-barred expose of the pop world. A spokeswoman for Jagged Films called it “an insider’s look at the music business and the Machiavellian world of hit-making.” Though the movie will be fictional, the spokeswoman said she expected that the flamboyant Jagger would “bring his own experiences to bear.”

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Trying a New Window: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a rock star? The entrepreneur has formed a band, called Grown Men, and the group’s independently produced self-titled album is on sale at https://www.mercata.com, an Internet sales site of which Allen is a founding investor. Allen plays guitar on the album, and wrote much of the music and lyrics. “It just started as a bunch of guys getting together to jam and took off from there,” said Terry Davison, the group’s lead singer. “Paul has a very nice little studio, we had enough material, so we decided, let’s make an album.”

TELEVISION

Dino Power: Discovery Channel’s “Walking With Dinosaurs” drew an average of 10.7 million viewers during its three-hour premiere Sunday night, setting a record for the most-watched documentary ever on cable television, beating out Discovery’s “Raising the Mammoth,” which had set a new ratings mark just last month. The dinosaurs documentary had more viewing households than both Fox and NBC, and Discovery estimates that a total of 40 million people watched at least some part of the program during its two broadcasts Sunday night.

PERFORMING ARTS

Eclectic Orange Slate: The centerpiece of Orange County’s second annual Eclectic Orange Festival--featuring 28 different productions from Oct. 13 to Dec. 1 at a variety of Orange County venues--will be the West Coast premiere of Philip Glass’ millennium Symphony No. 5 on Oct. 13 at Orange County Performing Arts Center. Other local premieres include Canadian theater artist Robert Lepage’s “Far Side of the Moon” and a Mikel Rouse opera, “Failing Kansas.” Also on the festival’s agenda are new works by choreographer Elizabeth Streb and composers John Tavener and Richard Teitelbaum, plus performances by Pianist Andras Schaff, tenor Ian Bostridge and vocalist Ute Lemper. The festival is overseen by the Orange County Philharmonic Society in cooperation with eight other performing arts organizations. A complete schedule is available on the Web at https://www.eclecticorange.org.

QUICK TAKES

Composer and recent Oscar show co-musical director Burt Bacharach underwent a successful partial replacement of his left shoulder late last week at L.A.’s Centinela Hospital, his spokeswoman said Tuesday. Bacharach broke his shoulder April 5 during concert rehearsals. . . . Country music star Waylon Jennings was recovering in Phoenix Tuesday from surgery to ease leg pain caused by peripheral vascular disease, which involves narrowing of the leg arteries. . . . Basketball star Michael Jordan’s Imax film, “Michael Jordan to the Max,” is set to open on the theater chain’s 80-foot screens May 5. . . . “Pokemon: The First Movie” opened in 11 international markets last weekend, setting box-office records in Germany, Israel and Finland.

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