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

TELEVISION

Remembering Alice Faye: Cable’s American Movie Classics will pay tribute to movie legend Alice Faye with a mini-festival of her work on Wednesday. The tribute kicks off at 8:05 a.m. with “Weekend in Havana” (1941), followed by “Tin Pan Alley” (1940) and “That Night in Rio” (1941). The programming concludes with “Reflections on the Silver Screen: Alice Faye,” a half-hour interview from 1992, airing at 1 p.m. Faye died Saturday at age 83.

Ohhh Noooo!: Mr. Bill, the accident-prone Play-Doh star of early “Saturday Night Live” fame, is returning to TV as the star and host of “Ohhh, Noooo!!! Mr. Bill Presents,” a new series planned for the Fox Family Channel. The show will feature Mr. Bill and his malleable pals hosting sketch comedy from other shows, such as “Mr. Bean.” Original “Mr. Bill” creator Walter Williams is writing and directing the new “Mr. Bill” segments, which will premiere along with the new cable channel--a revitalized version of cable’s Family Channel--on Aug. 15.

‘SEINFELD’ WATCH

Looters!: Security cameras caught some industry insiders looting the Studio City set of “Seinfeld” a few days after the April 11 taping of the NBC series’ final episode, according to a report in New Yorker magazine. The thieves, the magazine said, were writers and other staffers from a neighboring show, who nabbed items such as the intercom from the wall in Jerry’s apartment and salt and pepper shakers from the coffee shop where the characters hang out. A few days later, one of the looters reportedly got a personal call from Jerry Seinfeld, who apparently wanted the intercom for his own collection of memorabilia.

Honors for Seinfeld and Kelley: The Museum of Television & Radio will honor Jerry Seinfeld alongside David E. Kelley (the creator of “Chicago Hope,” “The Practice” and “Ally McBeal”) for “uniquely contributing to the format of the situation comedy and the prime-time drama,” during the Beverly Hills museum’s annual gala on Oct. 4. Previous honorees include Alan Alda, David Brinkley, Mary Tyler Moore and Jack Paar.

More Yada: The J. Peterman company--the real-life catalog business whose leader inspired the “Seinfeld” character of the same name--will open its first West Coast retail store on Friday at Fashion Island in Newport Beach.

RADIO

‘Power’ Shake-Up: Emmis Broadcasting, owner of hip-hop music station KPWR-FM (105.9)--known as “Power 106”--has dismissed KPWR’s general manager, Marie Kordus, and programming director, Michelle Mercer. Doyle Rose, president of Emmis’ radio division, said that a change was needed because “the station had fallen in the ratings over the last two years . . . [plus] sometimes you have to look at whether the chemistry [is right] or the right person is in place to lead the staff.” Rose, who said a new manager and program director will be on hand within 30 days, nevertheless called Kordus “very bright and diligent,” and said Emmis has offered Kordus a post heading up sales for its new television division. Kordus said Monday she is “pretty close” to saying yes. No change in format at KPWR is anticipated.

MOVIES

Titanic Footage Found: A 90-year-old British woman has found a rare movie newsreel of the aftermath of the 1912 Titanic disaster after remembering that her movie projectionist husband hid it away in the family’s garden shed decades ago. The newsreel, shot on 35-millimeter film, shows pictures of rescue ships, survivors arriving on land and anxious family members awaiting news of the liner’s fate. Renee Mason told an English television station that she remembered having the 86-year-old footage only after seeing the Oscar-winning blockbuster “Titanic.” The footage is expected to be auctioned by Christie’s later this year.

QUICK TAKES

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will guest on Wednesday’s “Rosie O’Donnell Show.” . . . ABC has announced plans for “R.L. Stine’s Night Terrors,” a miniseries about the treatment of night terrors. ABC said it will be the first work created by best-selling children’s author Stine (“Goosebumps”) for an adult prime-time audience. . . . KTTV-TV Channel 11’s “Fox News at 10” won the Overall Excellence Award from the Greater L.A. Press Club on Saturday. . . . Linda McCartney has been posthumously awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, given by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations to honor efforts to “enrich of invigorate society.” Others cited at the ceremony Saturday included Dith Pran, whose story was told in “The Killing Fields”; actors Steven Seagal and John Amos; and the U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team. . . . The former members of the Beatles and Yoko Ono have succeeded in their bid to block sales of what they claimed was an unauthorized 35-year-old recording of the Fab Four singing drunkenly in a German club. In a London court settlement, Lingasong Music Ltd.--which had claimed the late John Lennon gave oral permission for the tape--agreed to hand over the original tape and abide by an injunction stopping all sales. . . . Pop star Michael Jackson and Detroit-based casino developer Don Barden are scouting possible casino sites in Las Vegas, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Africa. “We have agreed to be partners but haven’t decided where and to what extent,” Barden told the Detroit News.