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

POP/ROCK

Goo Goo Dolls Unharmed in Plane Mishap: A U.S. Navy plane carrying the Goo Goo Dolls skidded off an Italian runway while landing during a rainstorm in Sicily on Sunday. No one aboard was injured. The C-9 aircraft was bringing the group, known for its hits “Slide” and “Iris,” back from Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the last stop of a Christmas tour of American military bases in Europe. “The safety of our military personnel and our guests is our primary concern,” a base spokesman said Monday, adding that the cause of the mishap was under investigation. “We are fortunate that there were no injuries.” The band’s publicists said the plane attempted two landing approaches before touching down, and its 30 passengers deplaned via emergency chutes.

MOVIES

Berlin Duties: Chinese actress Gong Li has been named president of the International Jury for the Berlin Film Festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary Feb. 9-20. She is the first Chinese artist to serve in such a position at a major Western festival. Her first film, Zhang Yimou’s “Red Sorghum,” received the Berlin festival’s Golden Bear award for best picture in 1988. The 2000 festival will present the world premiere of the actress’ forthcoming film “Breaking the Silence,” in which she plays the mother of a deaf child. She will also inaugurate the Berlinale 2000’s Children’s Film Festival as part of her role as a UNESCO ambassador. Her latest film, meanwhile, Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Emperor and the Assassin,” opened Friday in Los Angeles.

Continuing His Father’s Colorization Fight: Tim Zinnemann, son of the late film director Fred Zinnemann, has filed a lawsuit in Rome seeking to make an Italian TV station, Telemontecarlo, stop broadcasting a colorized version of his father’s film “The Seventh Cross.” The suit, filed with legal and financial support from the Artists Rights Foundation, claims that the station’s colorization of the film violates the director’s “moral rights.” Fred Zinnemann strongly protested the station’s first showing of the colorized version in 1996. In 1988, the family of director John Huston succeeded in a similar suit against a French station that was airing a colorization of Huston’s “The Asphalt Jungle.”

JAZZ

O’Day’s New Year’s Eve Plans: Legendary jazz singer Anita O’Day, who nearly died from pneumonia and blood poisoning in 1997, will celebrate the new millennium with a New Year’s Eve performance at West Hollywood’s Chaya Brasserie. O’Day, 80, will perform two sets. Doors open at 8 p.m., and tickets are $199.90.

TELEVISION

NBC About-Face: A “Saturday Night Live” sketch that angered the Anti-Defamation League will not be excised when the episode repeats, NBC said Monday. The Dec. 4 sketch spoofed holiday specials and included an actress playing teen singer Britney Spears remarking that Christians forgive Jews “for having killed our Lord.” An NBC official initially wrote the ADL saying the segment wouldn’t air again, but after reviewing viewer response, NBC said the network “must find a balance between being politically correct and being funny in a non-hurtful way,” calling the segment “a typical ‘SNL’ parody.”

Clark to Host ‘Lines’: CBS’ new game show “Winning Lines,” to be hosted by Dick Clark and based on a popular British quiz show of the same name, will premiere Jan. 8 in the 8 p.m. Saturday time slot. To make room for “Winning Lines,” the drama “Early Edition” will go on hiatus, but CBS said it will return in the spring. “Candid Camera” will fill the rest of “Early Edition’s” hour, moving to Saturdays at 8:30 p.m.

QUICK TAKES

Nine Inch Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor will hold his first live online chat at 8:30 tonight at https://www.mtv.com. The chat coincides with the band’s first concert TV special, airing on MTV tonight at 11. Footage for the 30-minute special was culled from several European shows. . . . The ex-husband of singer Wynonna Judd has been sentenced to 50 days in jail for violating a court-approved divorce agreement that included a ban on discussing their private matters with reporters. However, Arch B. Kelley III has appealed his conviction and sentence, a move that gave him a temporary stay. . . . Mariah Carey’s former dream house, an eye-popping Bedford, N.Y., mansion that sold for $20.5 million after her 1998 divorce from Sony Music executive Tommy Mottola, burned to the ground Saturday. It had been vacant, and no one was injured. The home, designed and built for Carey and Mottola in the mid-1990s, had nine bedrooms, seven fireplaces, two swimming pools and a recording studio on 56 acres. An attorney for owner Nelson Peltz, chairman of Arby’s and Snapple parent company Triarc Cos., said faulty wiring was suspected to have caused the blaze. . . In another fire Saturday, Lily Tomlin’s Hollywood office building sustained smoke and water damage in a blaze that gutted two nearby recording studios and caused about $1.7 million in damage. However, firefighters rescued Tomlin’s three Emmy statuettes, triumphantly waving them out a window of the charred building after putting out the fire.