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

POP/ROCK

Cuban Concert: With President Fidel Castro in the audience and a vast Cuban flag behind the stage, British rockers the Manic Street Preachers played a historic gig in Havana on Saturday night, becoming the biggest Western music act to play in communist-ruled Cuba since Billy Joel and Kris Kristofferson performed there in 1979. Castro drew cheers from the youthful Cuban crowd when he took a balcony seat just before the Welsh musicians plunged into an hourlong set with songs denouncing U.S. policy toward the island nation. Castro himself stood and applauded after an acoustic version of “Baby Elian,” an anti-American paean to Elian Gonzalez, the boy who was returned to Cuba from the United States after an international custody dispute last year.

TV & MOVIES

Downey Deal Delayed: Actor Robert Downey Jr.’s next court hearing, scheduled for Wednesday, is likely to be postponed because the parties have not come to an agreement, according to prosecutors. “We haven’t reached a disposition yet, so we’re simply going to continue it,” Riverside County prosecutor Tamara Capone said, adding that attorneys will seek a court date in mid-March. Downey faces drug charges as the result of his Thanksgiving weekend arrest at a Palm Springs hotel. His first court date was Jan. 29, but that was also postponed to give Downey and prosecutors more time to reach a plea bargain.

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Cinematographers’ Picks: The American Society of Cinematographers gave its top award Sunday night to Caleb Deschanel for his work on “The Patriot.” Deschanel is also nominated for the cinematography Oscar. The cinematographers gave their episodic television award to Tom Del Ruth for NBC’s “The West Wing.”

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Sundance in L.A.: The Sundance Institute will screen two of the award winners from this year’s Sundance Film Festival at L.A.’s Directors Guild of America tonight. “Scout’s Honor,” which won the Documentary Audience Award and the Freedom of Expression Award, will screen at 7, followed at 9:30 by “Memento,” for which director Christopher Nolan won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Tickets are $25 for one screening or $35 for both films.

PEOPLE WATCH

Lessons Learned: Jane Fonda told an audience at a weekend fund-raiser in Atlanta that she has finally learned that “good enough is good enough” and has overcome a quarter-century battle with anorexia and bulimia. “For 25 years, I could never put a forkful in my mouth without feeling fear, without feeling scared,” Fonda said at an Eating Disorders Education Network event. “This feels like one of those AA meetings. . . . But instead it’s ‘I’m Jane Fonda and I’ve been bulimic and anorexic for 25 years of my life,’ ” she said. “I’m 63 years old and only in the last two years have I learned that good enough is good enough.”

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Private Storage: Many fans of the late opera diva Maria Callas were offended when 13 lots of her intimate apparel were included in a December auction of Callas’ possessions in Paris. So the Greek Culture Ministry bought the undergarments for about $24,000, and said the items would be burned out of respect for Callas--who was born in New York of Greek parentage. On Monday, however, a Culture Ministry official said the government body had instead decided to stash the articles away from public view. “We will lock them up and then we will forget where we put them,” he said. “When you’re dealing with a legend, sentimentality comes into play. We just couldn’t burn the objects. But no one will ever see them, either.”

ARTS

Virtual Getty: The J. Paul Getty Trust today launches a redesigned Web site featuring expanded content and streaming media including more than 200 video clips. The site, at https://www.getty.edu, focuses on artists, conservation, special exhibitions and works in the permanent collection. “In the same way that the creation of the Getty Center united all of our programs in one physical location, the redesign of the Getty Web site creates a new home in cyberspace for the wide-ranging resources of the museum, Research Institute, Conservation Institute and the grant program,” said Kenneth Hamma, project director for Getty.edu.

QUICK TAKES

CBS’ “Late Late Show” host Craig Kilborn will host the third annual TV Guide Awards, taking place Saturday at the Shrine Expo Center and airing March 7 on Fox. . . . Actor-director Sidney Poitier will receive the NAACP’s Hall of Fame Award during the 32nd annual NAACP Image Awards, airing March 9 on Fox. . . . Pop singer James Taylor, 52, married his longtime girlfriend, Boston Symphony Orchestra executive Caroline “Kim” Smedvig, 46, at a Boston church Sunday. Film composer and conductor John Williams gave the bride away, and Andre Previn and Yo-Yo Ma performed at the ceremony. . . . The 35th annual Country Music Assn. Awards, which drew 38 million viewers to CBS last year, will be held for the first time during TV’s important November ratings sweeps this year. Organizers believe the Nov. 7 date will also benefit country music sales during the critical holiday shopping season. The later date, meanwhile, will extend the eligibility period for music releases by one month, through June 30. Nominees will be announced Aug. 28. . . . Paul Simon, who was to be feted Monday night as the recording academy’s MusiCares Person of the Year, has been added to the performers’ list for Wednesday’s Grammy Awards. Meanwhile, controversial rapper Eminem will follow his Grammy performance by also performing Feb. 26 at the Brit Awards in London.