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MOVIES

‘Devil’s’ Delay?: The Al Pacino movie “Devil’s Advocate” may not make it to video shelves on Tuesday as scheduled, due to a copyright dispute over a sculpture depicted in the movie. A federal judge has blocked the video release until a jury decides whether the movie illegally copied Frederick Hart’s bas-relief, “Ex Nihilo,” which stands at the entrance of Washington National Cathedral. Hart and the cathedral sued Warner Bros. over filmed scenes in which an image of the sculpture comes to life and writhes erotically; the litigants claim the scenes damaged their reputations. The studio maintains that it had a 1st Amendment right to use Hart’s image. However, a Warner Bros. attorney told the judge that he hopes to negotiate a settlement in time to avoid a recall of the videos, which have already been shipped to stores.

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Weekend at the Oscars?: Oscar organizers are working toward moving the annual awards--which have been held on Monday nights at 6--to a Sunday, 5 p.m. start time next year. Most major awards shows, including the Emmys, already take place on Sunday nights, a slot that garners more television viewers. The earlier start time, of course, would mean East Coast viewing would conclude around 11 p.m. instead of midnight. This year’s awards take place March 23, airing on ABC.

POP/ROCK

Remembering Carl Wilson: Carl Wilson’s son told about 400 people who gathered Tuesday to remember the late Beach Boy that his father will always be his hero. “He was and always will be our everything,” Justin Wilson, 26, said. “You truly are my one and only hero, and I love you.” Carl Wilson died last Friday at age 51 after a bout with cancer. Attendees at the Los Angeles memorial service included the surviving Beach Boy members: Carl’s brother, Brian Wilson; his cousin, Mike Love; and Alan Jardine and Bruce Johnston. Another Wilson brother and Beach Boy member, Dennis Wilson, died in a 1983 swimming accident. Cable’s VH1 will pay tribute to Wilson on Friday by airing the 1985 film biography “Beach Boys: An American Band” at 9 p.m.

QUICK TAKES

In what ABC marketing types are calling “an odd twist of art imitating life,” the network has begun production on “Stephen King’s Storm of the Century,” a six-hour miniseries written directly for television and scheduled for next season. Filming will take place in Toronto and in Southwest Harbor, Maine. . . . The Brit Awards--complete with the previously reported anti-government ice-water-in-the-face shenanigans by Chumbawumba--will air on ABC on April 11 at 11:30 p.m.