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

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Paley Festival Lineup: The casts and creative teams behind two TV classics are set to reunite for the Museum of Television & Radio’s upcoming William S. Paley Television Festival, with “The Carol Burnett Show’s” Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence among those set to appear on a March 3 panel, and “MASH” writer Larry Gelbart and cast members Alan Alda, William Christopher, Jamie Farr, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan and Loretta Swit slated for March 6. On the other side of the spectrum, meanwhile, three first-year dramas made the cut for this year’s festival, which features episode screenings and a panel discussion with the cast and creators of shows chosen for their “artistic merit, cultural impact or historical significance.” The newcomers are ABC’s romance-after-divorce show “Once and Again” (March 4), NBC’s White House drama “The West Wing” (March 7) and NBC’s high school show “Freaks and Geeks” (March 11). The rest of the schedule: “An Evening With Garry Shandling” (Feb. 29), NBC’s “Will & Grace” (March 1), Comedy Central’s animated comedy “South Park” (March 2), ABC’s “Dharma & Greg” (March 8), the 1990-92 Fox comedy “Get a Life” (March 9), Showtime’s sci-fi anthology series “The Outer Limits” (March 10), Fox’s “That ‘70s Show” (March 13) and “A Tribute to Fred Coe,” with actor Rod Steiger and directors John Frankenheimer and Delbert Mann among those slated to remember the legendary producer of TV classics from “Marty” to “Peter Pan” (March 14). All events will take place at the Directors Guild of America in West Hollywood at 7 p.m.; tickets are $15 per event and go on sale Friday.

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Globe Ratings: Sunday’s three-hour Golden Globe Awards broadcast on NBC drew an estimated average of 22.1 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings. The broadcast also drew record ratings on both coasts, with an estimated 30% of the New York audience and 35% of the L.A. audience tuning in.

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Goodbye ‘90210’: Fox’s long-running series “Beverly Hills, 90210” is not expected back next fall, with the future of another of the network’s dramas, “Party of Five,” also in doubt. Network executives discussed such programming changes at an affiliates meeting in New Orleans over the weekend. On Monday, however, the network had no official statement on the series’ fate. Sources said, however, that negotiations with “Party of Five”--which spawned the Jennifer Love Hewitt spinoff “Time of Your Life” this season--are continuing.

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OSCAR WATCH

Re-Releasing ‘Beauty’: Hoping to capitalize on “American Beauty’s” three Golden Globe wins and further bolster its Oscar chances, DreamWorks announced plans Monday to re-release the film Feb. 18 on 750 screens nationwide. The movie, which originally opened in September, won Golden Globes Sunday for best drama, best director and best screenplay. On Monday, it was also named best picture by the Broadcast Film Critics Assn.

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First Poster Sale: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will sell a limited number of Oscar 2000 posters for the first time this year. Previously, Academy Award posters have been distributed only to the likes of film exhibitors and video retailers, but this year’s poster--designed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman and inspired by the 1926 silent film “Metropolis,” set in the year 2000--will be sold to the public for $20 (including shipping). Academy Award posters will also be available in future years. An academy executive noted: “While we don’t in any way want to turn the awards process or the Oscar statuette image into a commodity, we did think that the Oscar 2000 poster was an appropriate item to share with at least a small number of movie fans and Oscar buffs.” To order posters, which will be available only until April 14, call (800) 554-1814 or log onto the Web at https://www.oscars.org.

PEOPLE

Blaze at Hopkins’ Home: Flames badly damaged an upstairs bedroom of Anthony Hopkins’ four-story brick row home in London’s Knightsbridge district over the weekend. No one was in the house at the time, but the London’s Sun reported that the actor’s wife returned to the building as firefighters were battling the blaze. Hopkins’ whereabouts at the time were not immediately known. A fire department spokesman said an Oscar statuette was sighted in the home. The bedroom in which the blaze broke out was badly burned, but the rest of the house was intact despite a small amount of smoke damage, said Max Dissanayake, assistant division officer with the London Fire Brigade.

QUICK TAKES

Rosie O’Donnell will return to host the 42nd annual Grammy Awards airing Feb. 23 on CBS. O’Donnell also hosted last year’s Grammy show. . . . CBS is developing a four-hour miniseries about the battle over 6-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez. Craig Anderson, producer of CBS’ upcoming Sally Hemings miniseries, is on board, but casting and an air date are to be determined, with the project to move forward as Gonzalez’s real-life story unfolds. . . . KNBC-TV swept all three top newscast honors at the Radio Television News Assn. Golden Mike Awards over the weekend. The station won seven awards overall, including best daytime newscast, best 60-minute news broadcast and best 30-minute newscast.

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