MOVIESDigital ‘Crow’: “The Crow,” starring the late...

MOVIES

Digital ‘Crow’: “The Crow,” starring the late Brandon Lee, has soared to the top of video charts and will soon enter the video-game arena. Philips Media Games and the newly formed Interactive Company Content announced that they will produce a multi-platform compact disc video game based on the urban comic-book fantasy. “We see this video game as an extension of the movie, with the same Gothic style and hot alternative rock soundtrack,” said Miles Mogulescu, executive vice president of Content. “The Crow,” which was released earlier this summer, grossed more than $50 million in domestic box office.

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‘Paradise’ Postponed: Twentieth Century Fox cited positive test screenings and an opportunity to expand its marketing plans as the reasons for pushing back the Oct. 21 release date of “Trapped in Paradise,” a comedy starring Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey as three New York brothers who come to a small town to rob the bank. The film will now open Dec. 2, where it will face competition from “Highlander III: The Magician” and “Cobb,” starring Tommy Lee Jones.

TELEVISION

Family Time: Beginning with tonight’s TV movie “Father and Son,” ABC will use a special on-air logo to designate programs particularly enjoyable for family viewing. The new Family Viewing Logo will appear in place of the network logo, in the lower right-hand corner of the screen at the beginning of the show and several seconds after each break. In the future, ABC will decide when to use the logo on a week-by-week, episode-by-episode basis, said ABC Entertainment president Ted Harbert. “The purpose of the Family Viewing Logo is to help parents and children find programs that are enjoyable for family viewing,” he said.

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‘Daddy’s’ Break: The sitcom “Daddy’s Girls,” starring Dudley Moore as the head of a women’s clothing company, has been put on hiatus by CBS. A repeat of “Dave’s World” will fill in Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. until CBS decides what to put there permanently. “Daddy’s Girls,” which has been finishing a lowly fourth in its time slot, will return sometime in the future, probably in a different time slot, CBS said.

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CD-Rumbler: Just when you thought the tremors were over, Ted Koppel will moderate a new CD-ROM title called “Earthquake,” utilizing ABC News’ extensive library of earthquake footage from the Northridge temblor and others throughout the world. The multimedia title, from Sony Imagesoft and ABC News InterActive, features 40 minutes of video and thousands of photographs, graphs, maps and charts. It will be available from software retailers next week with a suggested retail price of $59.95.

LEGAL FILE

Rush to Court: Hey, Rush, you shouldn’t have used that song. So says the writer of the 1963 hit “Hey, Paula,” who’s suing Rush Limbaugh for playing a version of the song on his nationally syndicated radio show to poke fun at President Clinton. Limbaugh used the tune in July and August with a Clinton impersonator singing new lyrics about the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against the President by Paula Corbin Jones. Songwriter Ray Hildebrand of Overland Park filed a copyright infringement lawsuit this week in federal court in Kansas City, Mo., seeking unspecified damages. Attorneys for Limbaugh’s radio show could not be reached for comment.

ARTS

Presidential Honors: President Clinton celebrated the arts as “our bridge to one another” when he honored 17 Americans and one organization Friday for their contributions to the nation’s culture. The diverse crowd of honorees, feted at a black-tie banquet in the State Dining Room, included singer Harry Belafonte, dancer Gene Kelly, actress Julie Harris, poet Richard Wilbur and folk singer Pete Seeger. At an afternoon awards ceremony on the White House lawn, Clinton described Kelly as one “who has inspired even the most uncoordinated among us to imitate his memorable scenes, as I must confess I tried to do for my daughter not very long ago when he was singing in the rain on television.” Among other medal recipients: Dave Brubeck, Celia Cruz, Dorothy DeLay, Erick Hawkins, Catherine Filene Shouse, Wayne Thiebaud and the performance group Young Audiences.

QUICK TAKES

Fleetwood Mac and former Byrds lead singer Roger McGuinn are headlining KLSX-FM’s (97.1) free outdoor concert today at Woodley Park in Van Nuys from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. . . . The trustees of the California Institute of the Arts on Sunday will present their annual award honoring extraordinary service to the arts to Frank Stanton, president emeritus of CBS Inc., and Peggy Cooper Cafritz, founder of Duke Ellington School. . . . Two members of a Bosnian theater troupe that has been performing the musical “Hair” for nearly two years in war-torn Sarajevo will join host Tom Schnabel on KCRW-FM’s (89.9) “Cafe L.A.” program, today at 2 p.m., for a live performance and discussion. . . . Impressionist Rich Little will marry comedian Jeanette Markey in a private Las Vegas ceremony Oct. 29, according to Little’s spokesman, Bruce Merrin.