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MOVIES

Oh, Oscar: The Academy Awards are moving from the Music Center to the Shrine Auditorium next year. Academy President Arthur Hiller said Thursday that officials at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion were unable to provide sufficient time for the academy before and after the Oscars. “We love the elegance of the Chandler Pavilion, but all the elegance in the world doesn’t do you any good if you don’t have the time to use it,” he said. The 69th Oscars will be the seventh time the event has been held at the Shrine, which has nearly 6,000 seats as opposed to the Pavilion’s 3,200. The increased capacity will help the academy to satisfy the ticket demands of its members.

PEOPLE

Home Safe: Actress Robin Wright, who played the girlfriend/wife in “Forrest Gump” and has the title role in the upcoming “Moll Flanders,” was reported to be doing “fine, absolutely fine” Thursday by her publicist, following a reported carjacking at gunpoint in Santa Monica Wednesday night. Police arrested Dackery Williams, 18, of Los Angeles, and an unidentified 16-year-old, who were charged with stealing her car. Wright, the wife of actor Sean Penn, was not injured.

Opening Soprano: Opera singer Jessye Norman will perform during the opening ceremonies at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta on July 19. The soprano will sing a new work titled “Citius, Altius, Fortiue” (Higher, Faster, Stronger), composed by Mark Watters with lyrics by Lorraine Feather.

TELEVISION

Beacon for Children: PBS President Ervin Duggan proposed Thursday an enhanced voluntary ratings system to signal children’s TV programs with educational value. In a speech at UCLA, Duggan suggested the creation of a “distinctive icon” that would be a “beacon” for parents seeking programs with educational content. The new symbol would supplement the V-chip ratings system currently under consideration by the networks and studios. The beacon would have the potential, Duggan said, of creating “welcome mats for programs worth watching, not just warnings about what not to watch.”

New Host: Kristin Jeannette-Meyers has been named co-anchor of the “CBS Morning News” at 5 a.m. and will be a contributor to “CBS This Morning.” Jeannette-Meyers will work with Cynthia Bowers, whose appointment was announced earlier this month. The revamped newscast makes its debut Aug. 5. Jeannette-Meyers had been co-anchor of Court TV’s “Inside America’s Courts” since 1995 and made a name for herself covering the O.J. Simpson trial. She was also legal analyst on “CBS This Morning” during the trial.

LEGAL TAKES

Schell Won: A Los Angeles jury has awarded actor Maximilian Schell $250,000 in lost wages from a German production company over a failed European stage play of “My Fair Lady.” The Austrian-born actor, a resident of Los Angeles, sued Wolfgang Bocksch Concerts of Germany in Los Angeles Superior Court for the lost wages due to the early closure of the play, for which he was to have been paid $50,000 a week. Schell, who won an Academy Award in 1961 for best actor for his role as a defense attorney in “Judgment at Nuremberg,” was also awarded expenses and interest on the $250,000.

MUSIC

Final Chapter?: The board of directors of the financially ailing San Diego Symphony has voted to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy for the orchestra; in this procedure, the symphony’s assets, including Copley Symphony Hall in downtown San Diego, will be liquidated to pay the claims of creditors. Over the last six months, the orchestra has been in and out of business, while seeking concessions from the musician’s union and new donations to fill a $3-million gap in funding.

QUICK TAKES

Michael Ovitz, president of the Walt Disney Co., will receive UCLA’s highest honor today at a ceremony for graduates of the university’s School of Medicine. The award credits Ovitz for “visionary leadership and for embracing the challenges that will shape the future of health care and the arts.” Ovitz, 49, received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UCLA in 1968. . . . RCA Records has released a first-ever compilation of recordings made by bandleader, composer and vocalist Desi Arnaz prior to his “I Love Lucy” years. The recordings, including Arnaz’s signature piece, “Babalu,” were made for RCA Victor from 1946 to 1949. They have been packaged on CD and cassette in a release titled “The Best of Desi Arnaz--The Mambo King.”