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POP/ROCK

Mr. & Mrs. Dogg: Snoop Doggy Dogg, 25, is now Husband Doggy Dogg. The rapper wed Shantae Taylor, the mother of his two sons, last Saturday during a private ceremony followed by a reception aboard a yacht in Marina del Rey. The couple’s children are 3-year-old Corde and newborn Cordell. Snoop is preparing for the Lollapalooza tour, which kicks off Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Fla.

TELEVISION

‘Rugrats’ to Go Live: Nickelodeon is turning its popular animated kids’ series “Rugrats” into a live stage show. The production, produced by PACE Theatrical Group, will travel to more than 50 U.S. cities beginning around the end of the year. There’s no word yet on when the Emmy-winning series’ animated babies--Tommy Pickles, Chuckie, Angelica and twins Phil and Lil--will come to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, new episodes of “Rugrats” (the first to be produced since 1994) will begin airing this fall, and a “Rugrats” film is in development for 1998.

MOVIES

Riddle Everyone This: Time Warner, which owns rights to the caped crusader, has taken a Texas-based rock band to court claiming that fans may mistakenly assume that the band--named Riddle Me This--is associated with Warner Bros.’ “Batman” movies. The entertainment giant says it owns rights to the favorite expression of a former Batman foe, the Riddler. The 6-year-old band, meanwhile, which records on its own label and tours Texas and neighboring states, says that the name describes the band’s “mutating” style, such as turning an African rhythm into a rock song. Both sides are awaiting a ruling--expected in the next several months--by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Court in Washington. The band’s lead singer, Eric Keyes, says he did a search that uncovered a racehorse by the same name, and that as a child, he had a book and played a game called “Riddle Me This.” Lawyers for Time Warner refused to comment.

Schwarzenegger Stadium: In other Bat-related news, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s native Austria celebrated the star’s icy turn in “Batman & Robin” on Friday by naming a soccer stadium after him. The honor was also an early birthday present for Schwarzenegger, the former “Terminator” who plays villain “Mr. Freeze” in the latest caped crusade. He turns 50 on July 30. A “Fitness Museum,” featuring Schwarzenegger’s former training machines, will also be set up at the stadium, in his hometown of Gratz.

Even Harder to Kill: Steven Seagal’s past roles apparently encompass more than even his biggest movie fans would guess. Among other honors, the action star has been declared a reincarnated lama by Penor Rinpoche, head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. In ceremonies at an Indian monastery, Seagal was also declared a “tulku” (a sacred vessel of Tibetan Buddhism) and a “terton” (one with abilities to perceive the root teachings of the sect). Rinpoche’s representative in the United States, Khenpo Tsewang Gyatso, called Seagal’s spiritual elevation a great honor, adding that “Seagal had his own vision of having some deeper knowledge in the dharma.” Some American Buddhists, meanwhile, are wondering whether the declaration was made because of Seagal’s donations to Rinpoche’s school of Buddhism, but the star’s spokeswoman said that he received the titles on his own merits.

ART

Homer’s Civil War Remembrances: The National Gallery of Art in Washington has acquired a Civil War painting by American master Winslow Homer and will put the work on view at the gallery July 19 along with 18 sheets of Homer’s early drawings of the conflict. The scene captures a period early in the war when bands of the Union and Confederate armies sometimes played “Home, Sweet Home” together across the battle lines. The National Gallery paid more than $2.6 million for the work at auction on June 5, a record for Homer, who illustrated the war in drawings for Harper’s Weekly. “Home, Sweet Home” is one of two paintings that made up the artist’s first public exhibition in 1863 at the National Academy of Design.

QUICK TAKES

KNBC-TV Channel 4 has signed a deal to carry Roseanne’s new daily talk show. The King World program, to be based in Los Angeles, is scheduled to premiere in the fall of 1998. . . . Chile’s Supreme Court this week upheld an eight-year ban on Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ,” saying it offended and insulted Christians. The movie also remains banned in the island nation of Madagascar. . . . His new album may have sunk to No. 92 on the pop chart, but Michael Jackson and his family apparently haven’t lost their VH1 appeal. The cable channel begins a “Jacksons’ Week” of programming on Sunday, starting with the 1992 ABC miniseries “The Jacksons: An American Dream” at 1 p.m., followed by Michael’s “Moonwalker” movie from 6 to 8 p.m. . . . Tom Cruise, Albert Brooks and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds are among those being honored at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday for exhibiting “exceptional vision” in the entertainment industry. The awards come from RP International, which fights blinding degenerative eye diseases and has developed technologies to make movies more accessible to the blind.