Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation’s press.

MOVIES

Monroe Memorial: Today is the 35th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, and the Marilyn Remembered Fan Club will hold its 15th annual memorial service for the actress at 11 a.m. in the chapel at Westwood Village Memorial Park in Westwood. Guest speakers will include photographer George Barris, biographer Donald Spoto, Monroe’s stand-in Evelyn Moriarty and foster sister Bebe Goddard. Monroe’s death on Aug. 5, 1962, was ruled a suicide.

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Oscar Call: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mailed invitations Monday to 68 countries, asking them to submit their top films for consideration for the 70th annual Academy Awards next year, Executive Director Bruce Davis announced. Entry forms must be received at the academy in Beverly Hills by Nov. 3, and films must be received by Nov. 18.

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Stereotyping?: A panel of 27, known as the Morning Star Commission, has been selected by Hadassah Southern California to investigate the portrayal of Jewish women in film and television. The panel will work with the International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University and issue policy recommendations. Barbra Streisand is honorary chairwoman of the institute. Commissioners include Joan Hyler (Hyler Productions), Donna Roth (Roth-Arnold Productions), author Faye Kellerman, Hope Boonshaft (Sony Entertainment) and Bonnie Bruckheimer (All Girl Productions).

TELEVISION & RADIO

Network-Hopping Actors: Two performers who starred in pilots that ABC didn’t order as series for next season have already landed deals to do new programs on other networks. Brian Benben, the star of HBO’s “Dream On,” made an agreement to appear in a show CBS will create for him, while the Fox network is in the process of signing comic Dave Chappelle, whose credits include the short-lived ABC comedy “Buddies” as well as the recent Eddie Murphy movie “The Nutty Professor.”

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Eye on the Fall: CBS plans to introduce two shows--the David Caruso drama “Michael Hayes” and Bob Newhart’s latest sitcom, “George & Leo”--on Sept. 15. “The Gregory Hines Show,” a new sitcom that will regularly air Fridays, will also get a preview that night. “Public Eye With Bryant Gumbel” debuts on Oct. 1.

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New Morning Team: All-news station KFWB-AM (980) debuted a new morning team Monday. News anchors Judy Ford, Paul Lowe and Ken Jeffries moved into the 5 to 10 a.m. morning drive slot, from their former afternoon position. “There is a special chemistry evident among [them],” Greg Tatum, the station’s program director, explained. Meanwhile, Dan Avey and Ron Kilgore, who had been part of the morning drive team, are now heard in the afternoon from 2 to 7 p.m. John Brooks, who also did mornings, went to middays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., joining Jack Popejoy and Bob Howard. Carol Ramos, who had been part of the morning team, has moved to KABC-AM (790).

QUICK TAKES

Tony winner (for “Evita”) Patti LuPone has been added to the list of artists performing at the Hollywood Bowl’s “Broadway ‘97!” concerts Sept. 5, 6 and 7. . . . Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the first jazz composer to win a Pulitzer Prize for music, has been appointed to the New York State Council on the Arts.