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

LEGAL FILE

Univision Complaint: After months of contract negotiations with newsroom employees at its Fresno affiliate, Univision, the country’s largest Spanish-language TV network, said it had filed a complaint in Fresno County Superior Court on Wednesday accusing the union of stalking and harassing employees at the station. Carrie Biggs-Adams, negotiator for the National Assn. of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, denied the charges but said she had not seen the complaint. Biggs-Adams and two employees at KFTV-Channel 21 are the only remaining NABET members on a liquid diet to protest what they say are KFTV’s low salaries and drawn-out negotiations. They began the fast 40 days ago. Univision said Wednesday it also had filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board accusing the union of being unprepared for scheduled bargaining sessions. “They’re just ticked off we didn’t accept their proposals,” Biggs-Adams said. Another negotiating session is scheduled to take place in Fresno today.

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Playing With Marble: Federal prosecutors in New York have begun civil forfeiture proceedings to seize--and return to China--a 10th century marble sculpture believed to have been stolen from a tomb there. The artwork--one of 10 sections of a marble wall relief reported missing from a tomb in Quyang County in 1994--was identified from pictures in a catalog of Chinese art scheduled to be sold at Christie’s auction house March 20. The piece, given an estimated price of $400,000 to $500,000, had been consigned for sale by a Hong Kong art gallery, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The wall sculpture was withheld from the auction and an investigation begun by customs agents in New York, Washington and Beijing, officials said, and will be returned to China as “protected cultural property.”

TELEVISION

More Exposure: “Northern Exposure” alumna Janine Turner will star in “Strong Medicine,” a new Lifetime cable drama due in July set at a women’s clinic. Meanwhile, “M.Y.O.B.,” a comedy about a runaway teen searching for her birth mother, will premiere June 6 on NBC. Filmmaker Don Roos (“The Opposite of Sex”) is an executive producer. Katharine Towne (“The Bachelor”) and Lauren Graham (“Conrad Bloom”) star.

QUICK TAKES

Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Barry G. Hessenius as director of the California Arts Council. Hessenius, 54, has been president and chief executive officer for the California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies in San Francisco since 1996. . . . Actor-filmmaker Albert Brooks and his wife, Kimberly, welcomed the birth of their second child, Claire Elizabeth, on Monday. . . . Warner Home Video has launched a new Web site dedicated to the late director Stanley Kubrick (https://www.kubrickfilms.com). It is authorized by and prepared with the help of the Kubrick estate. . . . Actress Geena Davis will play a New York party planner who falls for a widower in the ABC comedy pilot “Lost and Found.”