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MOVIES

Broadway Bound?: Director Quentin Tarantino is in talks to star on Broadway as the lead actor in a revival of the 1966 stage thriller “Wait Until Dark,” which was turned into a movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin a year later. “It’s something he’s interested in,” Tarantino’s spokeswoman said Friday noting, however, that no deal had been signed. Producers Alan N. Lichtenstein and Robert Young are planning a 30-week run for the production, starting in the spring; it is not clear whether Tarantino would star for the entire run. Tarantino’s next directorial effort, “Jackie Brown,” is due in theaters Dec. 25.

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The Pope’s Movie: “Our God’s Brother,” a period film based on a 40-year-old play by Karol Wojtyla--now known to the world as Pope John Paul II--will be screened to an international audience Sept. 6 at the Venice Film Festival. The movie tells the story of Brother Albert, a wealthy Polish aristocrat and artist from the mid-1800s who gave up his material assets to live with and work for the homeless. Wojtyla published six plays in his pre-papal days; this is the first made into a film. Upon becoming the pope, John Paul II canonized Brother Albert, making him St. Brother Albert. The film premiered in Poland last June during the pope’s visit there.

TELEVISION

Early Emmys: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of two Emmy categories on Friday, with Jeremy Irons (“War Without End,” PBS) and Rik Mayall (“Willows in Winter,” the Family Channel) receiving juried awards for outstanding voice-over performance, while three honorees were recognized for outstanding individual achievement in animation: Phil Weinstein (“Boo! To You Too! Winnie the Pooh,” CBS), Gary Hurst (“Testament: The Bible in Animation--Moses,” HBO) and Loraine Marshall (“Willows in Winter,” the Family Channel). Also on Friday, the academy announced nominees for outstanding special visual effects, with three NBC programs--”3rd Rock From the Sun,” “Asteroid” and “The Odyssey”--competing with the syndicated “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” That bumps NBC’s total number of Emmy nominations to 92, topping the 90 garnered by cable’s HBO.

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Out With a Whimper: “Roseanne,” which premiered on ABC on Oct. 18, 1988, will air for the final time on the network Tuesday. ABC is temporarily replacing the show’s reruns--which have scored low ratings this summer--with second airings of “Home Improvement,” seeking to boost viewership leading up to the start of the new TV season. “Soul Man,” starring Dan Aykroyd, takes over the 8 p.m. Tuesday slot beginning Sept. 30.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Gorecki & Others at USC: Noted conductor Henryk Gorecki will make a rare appearance at USC on Oct. 3, conducting his Third Symphony--one of classical music’s greatest hits. Tickets for the USC Symphony performance at Bovard Auditorium are $5. Meanwhile, after a lengthy search for a new conductor, the USC School of Music has appointed a trio of leaders for the orchestra, headed by conductor Jung-Ho Pak as music director. Pak--who is also in line to become music director of the San Diego Symphony if that now-defunct orchestra is successfully revived--will be joined by Sergiu Comissiona as principal guest conductor and Carl St.Clair as visiting artist.

POP/ROCK

Seagal, the Musician: Action hero Steven Seagal is following the likes of Keanu Reeves and Kevin Bacon in an attempt to segue from the movies to the concert world. Seagal, who sings and plays the guitar, is set to embark on a “North American tour” Wednesday that will include performances in Dallas and New Orleans, with a Sept. 3 performance in Nashville scheduled to air on cable’s Nashville Network. A press release from Warner Bros.--which opens Seagal’s next movie, “Fire Down Below,” on Sept. 5--called the actor “an accomplished composer and blues musician.”

QUICK TAKES

StarFair, an Actors’ Fund of America benefit that was scheduled for today and Sunday near UCLA, has been canceled due to logistical problems. Organizers of the event, which was to have featured more than 150 actors and other entertainment figures, expect to reschedule the fair on a future date. . . . Three veteran deejays will each spend a week in the 2-6 p.m. slot at KLOS-FM (95.5) in what the station calls an effort to “mix it up, see what happens and get [listener] reaction” before setting a new afternoon lineup. Geno Michellini will air next week, followed by Frazier Smith (Sept. 1-5) and Steve Downes (Sept. 8-12). . . . Veteran news anchor Jerry Dunphy is returning to KCAL-TV Channel 9 in late October to anchor one of the station’s three hourlong evening newscasts. He left KCAL in 1995 to join KCBS-TV Channel 2 in a highly publicized and costly move, but he left the station about a year later when the news operation was restructured. . . . Connie Stevens has been dropped from the cast of “Head Over Heels,” a sitcom premiering Tuesday on UPN. In the original pilot, the 59-year-old former star of such films as “Parrish,” “Susan Slade” and “The Party Crashers” played the spunky, sexually active mother of series stars Peter Dobson and Mitchell Whitfield, but her character has since been eliminated.