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POP/ROCK

STP’s Weiland Back in Rehab: The Stone Temple Pilots’ spring tour is on hold now that lead singer Scott Weiland, who has been battling heroin addiction for several years, has checked himself into a treatment center, it was learned Wednesday. “It’s an obvious setback,” said Steve Stewart, the band’s manager, “but I’m glad Scott’s getting some help and it was a situation where he made the call and sought the help. That’s a positive thing. It’s different than it was a year ago, when that wasn’t quite the case.” STP canceled a summer tour last year while Weiland spent five months in a court-ordered rehab program, but the band staged a successful fall tour, winding up the six-week trek in Cleveland Dec. 14. Two weeks later, after bad weather preempted a show in Vancouver, Weiland checked himself back into rehab, Stewart said, forcing STP to cancel shows in Alaska and Hawaii. The manager, who expects Weiland to spend about a month in treatment, said STP supports the singer: “Nobody’s been fired. The band is intact and looking forward to Scott recovering and going back to work.”

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More Babyface Kudos: One day after racking up a record-tying 12 Grammy nominations, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds garnered more honors Wednesday from the NAACP, which nominated him for outstanding male recording artist along with B.B. King, Luther Vandross, the Artist Formerly Known as Prince and Maxwell. In addition, five NAACP Image Award nominations went to artists on Edmonds’ LaFace records, including four for Toni Braxton, whose “Secrets” album Edmonds produced. And Whitney Houston’s “The Preacher’s Wife” soundtrack, which includes a song by Edmonds, made it to the best album nominees, alongside the Artist Formerly Known as Prince’s “Emancipation,” Maxwell’s “Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite,” Curtis Mayfield’s “New World Order” and the Fugees’ “The Score.” Among other music categories, Braxton will vie with Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Tracy Chapman and Vanessa Williams for outstanding female artist, while Braxton’s “Un-Break My Heart” goes up against Chapman’s “Give Me One Reason,” R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly,” the Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly” and Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” for best song. Outstanding rap nominees are A Tribe Called Quest, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Dr. Dre, LL Cool J and the Fugees.

MOVIES

And the Other Nominees: Not all 35 of the NAACP Image Award categories announced Wednesday focused on the music world. “A Time to Kill,” “Courage Under Fire,” “Get On the Bus,” “Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored” and “The Preacher’s Wife” drew nods for outstanding motion picture, while Cuba Gooding Jr. (“Jerry Maguire”), Denzel Washington (“Courage Under Fire”), Eddie Murphy (“The Nutty Professor”), Ossie Davis (“Get On the Bus”) and Samuel L. Jackson (“The Long Kiss Goodnight”) were nominated for best actor, alongside Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah (both for “Set It Off”), Phylicia Rashad (“Once Upon a Time . . . “), Whitney Houston (“The Preacher’s Wife”) and Whoopi Goldberg (“Ghosts of Mississippi”) for best actress. Among the television categories, contenders for outstanding comedy are CBS’ “Cosby,” NBC’s “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” UPN’s “Moesha” and Fox’s “Living Single” and “Martin,” while the best drama nominees are NBC’s “ER” and “Homicide: Life on the Street,” Fox’s “New York Undercover,” ABC’s “NYPD Blue” and CBS’ “Touched by an Angel.” The 28th annual NAACP Image Awards will be given Feb. 8 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Patti LaBelle and Arsenio Hall will host the program, being broadcast Feb. 27 on Fox.

MUSIC

Helfgott’s Program: So just what will Australian pianist David Helfgott play when he comes to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for two solo recitals in March? The pianist--whose life story is depicted so poignantly in the movie “Shine”--is calling the first show, on March 25, “The Celebration of Life.” It will start off with Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso in E minor, followed by Chopin’s Etude Opus 10, No. 3 and Scherzo No. 1, Liszt’s “Um Sospiro” and “Hungarian Rhapsody” No. 2, and the grand finale, Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata. On March 27, Helfgott’s program will be called “The Miracle of Love” and will include selections by Chopin (Polonaise in A-flat and Ballade in F minor) and Liszt (“Sposalizio,” “Sonetto 104 del Petrarca,” “La Campanella” and “Hungarian Rhapsody” No. 6). As on the first night, he will close with Beethoven: Sonata No. 23 in F minor (“Appassionata”).

QUICK TAKES

Miramax Films’ “The English Patient” has won USC’s ninth annual Scripter Award, honoring the year’s best film adaptation of a book. The award will be presented to author Michael Ondaatje and screenwriter-director Anthony Minghella during on-campus ceremonies Feb. 8. . . . Tonya Flynt, the daughter of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, spoke out Wednesday against her father and “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” calling Milos Forman’s movie depicting her father’s 1st Amendment court battles a “pack of lies.” In fact, the younger Flynt said her father “doesn’t give a damn about freedom of speech” and cares only about “making millions of dollars out of the sexual exploitation of women and children.” . . . “Bull Durham,” the 1988 movie starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, is being developed as a prime-time romantic comedy series by ABC and Columbia TriStar Television. There’s no casting yet. . . . No Doubt’s “Tragic Kingdom” tops the national album sales chart for the fifth week in a row. It sold about 251,000 copies last week, according to SoundScan, marking the ninth consecutive week that an album distributed by Interscope Records has ranked No. 1. Coming in a distant second was the “Romeo & Juliet” soundtrack with 173,000 copies sold.