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

TV & MOVIES

Baby Due: Catherine Zeta-Jones and fiance Michael Douglas are expecting a baby together, the actors’ publicists said Friday. The couple, who made the announcement after a British tabloid reported the pregnancy, did not say when the baby is due. They had announced their engagement earlier this month, though specific wedding plans weren’t disclosed. It will be the first child for Zeta-Jones, 30, and the second for Douglas, 55, who has a 20-year-old son.

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Bidding ‘Peanuts’ Adieu: Walter Cronkite will return to CBS to host the hourlong special “Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz” on Feb. 11, two days before publication of the last “Peanuts” comic strip. CBS said that Cronkite agreed to do the tribute show “because he has a relationship” with the retiring “Peanuts” cartoonist. Schulz, whose “Peanuts” specials have aired on CBS for more than 30 years, will not appear on the show.

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Latino Honors: The National Hispanic Media Coalition honored five individuals Friday night for their contributions to the positive image of Latinos. Receiving Impact Awards during ceremonies at L.A.’s Regal Biltmore Hotel were actress Elizabeth Pena, director Gregory Nava, producer Nely Galan and “Sesame Street” co-stars Emilio Delgado (Luis) and Sonia Manzano (Maria). Also honored for their work in diversity were cable’s Nickelodeon and Showtime, and PBS’ “Sesame Street.”

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Sweeps Premiere: Showing an unusual amount of confidence in a new show, CBS will premiere the romantic comedy “Grapevine” at 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 28, the final Monday of the important February ratings sweeps. The show, about four friends in Miami, will move to its regular 8:30 p.m. Monday time slot the following week, displacing “Ladies Man,” which goes on hiatus until April 10. A previous version of “Grapevine” aired briefly on CBS in 1992.

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Tube Notes: KTTV-TV will premiere a 5:30 a.m. newscast, “Fox 11 News AM Express,” on Monday. The anchors will be Jean Martirez and Tony McEwing. . . . HBO will delay its Golden Globe-winner “The Sopranos” by one hour to 10 p.m. on Sunday to avoid conflicting with the Super Bowl. . . . Regis Philbin will spoof “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” in a Feb. 12 guest stint on Fox’s “Mad TV.” In the sketch, Philbin hosts “Who Wants to Be the President,” in which characters playing Al Gore, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes and Jesse Ventura vie for $1 million in campaign funds. . . . Author Amy Tan’s tale of discovery, “Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat,” is slated to premiere on PBS in the fall of 2001 as a daily animated kids series. . . . The Disney Channel will premiere a new Winnie the Pooh series for preschoolers, “The Book of Pooh,” early next year. . . . “Queen Latifah,” the syndicated talk show seen locally on KTTV-TV, has been renewed for a second season.

POP/ROCK

Carey to Start Tour in L.A.: Mariah Carey will kick off her North American “Rainbow Tour” with a March 16 show at the downtown Los Angeles Staples Center. Tickets go on sale Feb. 6 at noon. It will be the tour’s only Southern California appearance.

International Honor: Quincy Jones will be given the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award for “receiving international recognition through his artistic achievements and having made an outstanding contribution to promoting global unity through cultural diversity.” He’ll receive the award in Switzerland on Tuesday during the annual World Economic Forum meeting, to be attended by 3,000 world and business leaders, including President Clinton.

ART

Gallery Agrees to Museum Payout: A New Mexico art gallery has agreed to refund $5 million to a Kansas City museum that was given 24 watercolor paintings once thought to be early works by Georgia O’Keeffe. Dan Keegan, director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, said that the watercolors are being returned to Santa Fe’s Gerald Peters Gallery, which agreed to the refund. In 1993, Kansas City banker and philanthropist R. Crosby Kemper Jr. purchased the paintings, part of a group of works known as “The Canyon Suite,” from Peters for $5 million. Kemper then donated them to the museum he founded. In November, the authenticity of the pieces came into question when they were omitted from a scholarly catalog of O’Keeffe’s complete works. Experts from the National Gallery of Art later determined they were not painted by O’Keeffe.

QUICK TAKES

The video version of Sunday’s big game, “Super Bowl XXXIV,” will be available in stores on Feb. 21 from USA Home Entertainment. . . . “My Dog Skip,” Warner Bros.’ family film starring Frankie Muniz from Fox TV’s new hit sitcom “Malcom in the Middle,” will increase to approximately 1,800 theaters nationwide on March 3. . . . The Glendale Symphony Orchestra will accompany tenor Luciano Pavarotti in his Feb. 11 concert at the Great Western Forum. . . . Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Principal Conductor John Mauceri will conduct Germany’s Chemnitz Opera in six performances of Kurt Weill’s forgotten opera “The Eternal Road” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music starting Feb. 28. Weill composed the opera, about the history of the Jews, in 1934, but before its Mauceri-conducted revival in Germany last June, it was performed only once, at a 1937 run in New York. . . . KCSN-FM (88.5) will mark what would have been Franz Schubert’s 203rd birthday on Monday with 12 straight hours of the conductor’s music, starting at 6 a.m. . . . Estonian-born conductor and recording artist Paavo Jarvi, 37, will succeed the retiring Jesus Lopez-Cobos as music director of the 105-year-old Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Jarvi, who signed a four-year contract, takes over in September 2001. His father, Neeme Jarvi, is music director of the Detroit Symphony, and his brother, Kristjan Jarvi, is assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. . . . Disneyland will unveil a new “45 Years of Magic Parade” on Feb. 18, celebrating the park’s 45th anniversary year in 2000. . . . College students with current school IDs no longer need parking reservations to be admitted to the Getty Center. Only the IDs of drivers will be checked. . . . Nominees for the American Society of Cinematographers’ outstanding achievement award are Conrad Hall (“American Beauty”), Dante Spinotti (“The Insider”), Tak Fujimoto (“The Sixth Sense”), Emanuel Lubeski (“Sleepy Hollow”) and Robert Richardson (“Snow Falling on Cedars”). Winners will be announced Feb. 20. . . . Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack, 65, broke his hip in Los Angeles this week in a fall from his bicycle, his production office said.