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

POP/ROCK

Phish Jam: A millennium concert by rock band Phish reeled in tens of thousands of fans who clogged a major Florida highway for two days just to get to the performance. The state highway patrol said traffic along Interstate 75 finally began flowing freely at about 7 p.m. Thursday, shortly after the group began its two-day outdoor festival at a Seminole Indian reservation in the Everglades. Traffic had been a nightmare since Wednesday, when about 75,000 spectators began clogging Alligator Alley, south Florida’s main east-west highway. One concertgoer died Wednesday after he fell off of a motor home and was run over. On Friday, authorities reported the festival was peaceful but said they were preparing for another traffic jam after the festival’s conclusion today. The band’s grand finale show was to start Friday before midnight and continue until dawn today.

TELEVISION

Marketing the Millennium: Warner Home Video will rush out a two-hour home video of CNN’s millennium coverage to be in stores by Tuesday. “CNN Millennium 2000--Incredible Moments From the Worldwide Celebration” will capsulize the cable news channel’s coverage from around the world and be made available in 25 countries within days. To achieve the rapid turnaround, CNN recruited dozens of producers and editors to work on the project, which was being fed digitally via satellite to post-production houses. CNN has been billing its millennium coverage as the “biggest journalistic undertaking in peacetime.”

Morning Movement: NBC’s “Today” remained the dominant morning program during the fourth quarter of 1999, according to Nielsen Media Research data, but ABC’s “Good Morning America”--which brought in anchors Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson last January--has narrowed the gap. “Today” averaged roughly 6 million viewers daily during those three months, mirroring its 1998 results, and “GMA” drew 4.3 million, a 30% increase over last year’s pre-Sawyer-and-Gibson numbers. CBS, which introduced “The Early Show” hosted by Bryant Gumbel in November, averaged only 2.7 million viewers, a 7% drop compared to the network’s 1998 numbers.

Post-Wedding Crash: Newlywed Jerry Seinfeld, who married Jessica Sklar on Dec. 25, was involved in a minor auto collision Thursday about 30 miles south of Albany, N.Y. State troopers said a driver in a Ford sedan merged onto a mountain road apparently without seeing Seinfeld’s silver 1997 Mercedes and hit the front of the comedian’s car. No one was injured and no tickets were issued. Seinfeld’s new bride was not in the car.

RADIO

Drama Lineup: KNX-AM (1070) revises its 9 p.m. “Drama Hour” lineup today, with three new shows joining the weekly mix. “The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show,” a 1946-48 comedy series featuring the bandleader and film star, respectively, debuts tonight at 9:30 (following “The Jack Benny Program”), sharing the Saturday time slot with “Burns & Allen.” And “This Is Your FBI,” a 1945-53 crime series starring Stacy Harris, will be heard Sundays at 9:30 p.m. (following the alternating “Adventures of Phillip Marlowe” and “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”). “Fort Laramie,” a 1956 western starring Raymond Burr, will air Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. (following “Escape”), alternating with “The Six Shooter.” The additional “Drama Hour” schedules for 2000 are “Lux Radio Theater” on Mondays, “Gunsmoke” followed by “The Whistler” on Wednesdays, “Suspense” and “Tales of the Texas Rangers” on Thursdays, and “The Lone Ranger” and “Dragnet” on Saturdays.

MOVIES

Sheen Suit Settled: Two women who sued Charlie Sheen, claiming a bodyguard beat them up when they tried to visit the actor at his Malibu home in July at Sheen’s invitation, settled the case Thursday. Erin Sieman and Christina Lee Stramaglia, who had admitted crawling over a fence when no one answered at the actor’s gate, had alleged battery, negligence and infliction of emotional distress, and sought unspecified damages from Sheen and the bodyguard, Curtis “Zippy” Hunt. Sheen, meanwhile, had claimed the women were harassing him; the bodyguard had maintained he had to use force when the trespassers wouldn’t leave Sheen’s property. Settlement details were not disclosed.

QUICK TAKES

Cable’s American Movie Channel will pay tribute to actor Clayton Moore, who died Tuesday at age 85 of a heart attack, by running his two “Lone Ranger” feature films, “The Lone Ranger” (1956) and “The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold” (1958), on Monday morning at 8:30 and 10, respectively. . . . Students with ID will be admitted free to the Norton Simon Museum throughout 2000. The offer is part of the Pasadena museum’s celebration of its recent renovation by architect Frank Gehry. Regular admission is $6. . . . “Meet the Press With Tim Russert” topped all Sunday-morning public affairs programs for fourth-quarter 1999, averaging 4.1 million viewers, versus 3 million for ABC’s “This Week” and 2.6 million for CBS’ “Face the Nation.” That’s NBC’s biggest advantage in more than a decade. . . . ABC’s late-night series “Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher” averaged 3.1 million viewers last week, its biggest audience since May.