MOVIESBerlin Fest: “In the Name of the...

MOVIES

Berlin Fest: “In the Name of the Father,” an Academy Award contender starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a man wrongly convicted for an IRA bombing, won the Golden Bear Award for best picture Monday at the Berlin International Film Festival. Tom Hanks, who is favored for an Oscar for his role as a gay lawyer with AIDS, earned best actor honors for “Philadelphia.” Among other winners at the 44th annual festival, Krzysztof Kieslowski was named best director for “Three Colors: White,” the second of a trilogy, and Crissy Rock took best actress honors her performance in “Ladybird, Ladybird,” as a woman who fights the British bureaucracy to keep her family together. French director Alain Resnais was awarded a Silver Bear for outstanding single achievement for his twin films, “Smoking” and “No Smoking.”

TELEVISION

Bomb Threat: A suspicious-looking box--that turned out to be containing tennis shoes--was detonated Monday at CBS Television City. The building was evacuated after a shoebox covered in tape was discovered at the artists’ entrance. Production was halted on “The Young and the Restless,” “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “The Price Is Right” as the casts of those shows emptied into the CBS parking lot. They were joined by the studio audience of “The Price Is Right,” which had been told about the evacuation by the show’s host, Bob Barker. The LAPD bomb squad had been called and took the threat seriously, one officer said, because Barker has been threatened because of his work with United Activists for Animal Rights. Just last week a bomb was found outside the home of one of Barker’s Hollywood Hills neighbor, a deputy district attorney. At the time Barker wondered: “Did they get it in the right driveway?”

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Lawrence’s Jokes Draw Complaints: NBC’s censors deleted some portions of comedian Martin Lawrence’s opening monologue this weekend on “Saturday Night Live” when it aired on the West Coast because of its raunchy content. After the show was seen live in the East, the network logged at least 177 complaints from viewers about jokes on such topics as women’s sexual cleanliness and John Wayne Bobbitt. Lawrence, who is currently appealing an NC-17 rating for his stand-up concert film “You So Crazy,” is the star of the Fox-TV series “Martin.”

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Another ‘Schindler’ Story: Next month KCOP-TV Channel 13 will air the TV premiere of “Schindler,” a documentary made in 1980 about Oskar Schindler, the factory owner who saved his Jewish laborers from Hitler’s extermination camps. It will be shown at 8 p.m. on March 19, two days before this year’s Academy Awards, at which Steven Spielberg’s version of the story, “Schindler’s List,” is favored to win several awards including best picture. The 90-minute documentary by director John Blair features interviews with more than 40 survivors from the era, including Schindler’s wife and one of his wartime mistresses, plus footage of Schindler himself, filmed shortly before his death in 1974.

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Emerging Artists Awards: As part of its celebration of Black History Month, KCET-TV Channel 28 presents its second annual awards program for Emerging African Performing Artists, tonight at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena. Three prize winners--who each get a cash award of $1,000--were chosen from open auditions held earlier this month. These three, pianist Jamemika McLemore, dancer Ramona Morgan and tenor Ryan Paul Smith, will perform, assisted by special guest artists and by the Agape Choir. Underwritten this year by the Ambassador Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, the Emerging Artists program will “definitely continue,” said William H. Kobin, president of KCET.

STAGE

Warbling ‘Heights’: Longtime British pop star Cliff Richard announced plans on Monday to finance and star in a musical based on Emily Bronte’s classic 19th-Century love story “Wuthering Heights.” Richard, 53, said he will spend 5 million pounds (about $7.4 million) on the show and will play the lead role of Heathcliff. “I’m not a likely choice for Heathcliff so it was never likely for (outside) producers to put money into it,” he said. Tim Rice, former partner of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, is writing the lyrics for the show, which is due to open in Birmingham in November before moving to London.

QUICK TAKES

Architect Frank O. Gehry will receive the USC School of Fine Arts’ first Arts Award March 6 for his “visual contributions to the urban landscape (and) efforts to revitalize Los Angeles.” . . . Robert Guillaume, who made the transition from TV’s “Benson” to L.A.’s “Phantom of the Opera,” will take over the lead role in the Broadway musical “Cyrano” March 8. Guillaume replaces Bill van Dijk as the long-nosed swashbuckler in the show at the Neil Simon Theater. . . . David Letterman’s mom, Dorothy interviews American skater Nancy Kerrigan Thursday on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman.”