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Preservation Bound: Dustin Hoffman’s 1982 cross-dressing comedy “Tootsie,” Dennis Hopper’s 1969 film “Easy Rider,” Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 silent picture “The Immigrant” and footage of a Westinghouse manufacturing plant shot in 1904 are among the eclectic group of 25 films named Monday as additions to the National Film Registry, which selects “‘culturally, historically or aesthetically significant motion pictures” for preservation. Other films on the list--chosen by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington after nominations by the public and review by the National Film Preservation Board--include “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925), “Steamboat Willie” (1928), “The Public Enemy” (1931), “42nd Street” (1933), “Little Miss Marker” (1934), “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), “The Ox-Bow Incident” (1943), “Twelve O’Clock High” (1949) and “The Last Picture Show” (1971). Less conventional fare includes D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 rock ‘n’ roll documentary “Don’t Look Back”; a 1978 Charles and Ray Eames short, “Powers of Ten”; “The City,” a 45-minute picture made for the American Institute of Planners for the 1939 World’s Fair; and “Dead Birds,” a 1964 study of a Western New Guinea tribe.
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Burnett Gives Back: UCLA alumna Carol Burnett has donated a complete archive of her 1967-78 television show “The Carol Burnett Show,” along with additional musical material including arrangements from her concert performances and recordings, to her alma mater. The donation--including videotapes of all 284 episodes, Burnett’s own scripts and arrangements for musical numbers performed on the show by the likes of Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Horne--will be housed in the UCLA Library and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Portions of the gift, along with other Burnett items including a Bob Mackie gown and the get-up for Burnett’s “charwoman” character, will be on public view through Nov. 25 at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall.
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Sheen Out of Rehab: Charlie Sheen, who nearly died of a drug overdose five months ago, received a judge’s permission Monday to leave rehab. “I’m very grateful,” Sheen, 33, said after the hearing. “It’s a good day to be alive. I’ve been able to reembrace life through this program. I want to thank my family.” Sheen’s father, Martin Sheen, had reported the drug overdose to the court in an effort to get his son help; Charlie Sheen said Monday, “He saved my life and I love him for that.”
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Olmos to Spur Latino TV: The Corp. for Public Broadcasting will hold a press conference today in Washington to announce that actor Edward James Olmos will head an interim organization to help develop public TV programming about and of interest to Latinos. The organization that formerly served that role, the L.A.-based National Latino Communications Center, had its CPB funding withheld earlier this year after a federal audit.
POP/ROCK
Start Them Up: Tickets for the Rolling Stones’ Feb. 9 performance at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim--priced from $39.50 to $150--go on sale at 10 a.m. Sunday through Ticketmaster and the Pond box office. Premium “gold circle” seats at $300 will initially be available only to Pond subscribers. The “No Security” mini-tour--named after the band’s latest album--begins Jan. 25 at the Oakland Arena; the only other California appearances are Jan. 28 at the San Jose Arena and Feb. 5 at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento. The 24-show tour takes the band out of the stadium venues it has favored since the 1980s.
QUICK TAKES
The Cameron Diaz hit “There’s Something About Mary” is due on video Feb. 2. . . . ABC has decided not to order additional episodes of its new Wednesday night sitcom “The Secret Lives of Men,” essentially canceling the series. . . . Grammy-winning trumpeter Arturo Sandoval has been granted U.S. citizenship after having been denied it last year because he was once a member of the Communist Party in his native Cuba.
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