ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

POP/ROCK

Lifetime Achievement Grammys: Johnny Cash, Mel Torme, Smokey Robinson and the late Sam Cooke and Otis Redding will each receive lifetime achievement awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences at the Feb. 24 Grammy Awards. In addition, songwriting teams Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, and Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoler will receive trustees’ awards, recognizing outstanding contributions for non-performers.

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Teen Chart Queen: The debut album by singer Britney Spears, 17, entered the album chart at No. 1, replacing hard-core rapper DMX, whose “Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood” slid to No. 3, according to SoundScan. Spears, a former Mickey Mouse Club member, also has the nation’s No. 1 single, “ . . . Baby One More Time,” the title track to her new album, which sold 121,000 copies in its first week of release last week.

TELEVISION

‘Strange’ Visits ‘Blue’ Spot: ABC will premiere “Strange World,” a new drama from Howard Gordon, an executive producer of “The X-Files,” on March 8 at 10 p.m., one night before the series gets a four-week tryout in “NYPD Blue’s” Tuesday 10 p.m. time slot. The series follows a scientist battling a degenerative disease contracted by exposure to chemical weapons in the Gulf War.

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Guillaume Recuperating: Actor Robert Guillaume, 71, is recuperating in a rehabilitation center after suffering a slight stroke last Thursday while in his dressing room on the set of ABC’s “Sports Night.” Guillaume told Variety columnist Army Archerd Tuesday: “I’m doing pretty good, I’m moving in the right track.”

QUICK TAKES

Longtime KCOP-TV General Manager Rick Feldman has announced plans to leave the post in the spring to “explore other challenges and attack new goals.” Feldman has been at KCOP for 16 years, having joined the station as general sales manager in 1983. . . . Spin Editor Craig Marks, in the news recently for filing a $24-million lawsuit against rocker Marilyn Manson accusing him of assault, was fired from the magazine Wednesday in a management sweep that also included his boss, Editor-in-Chief Michael Hirschorn. A magazine spokesman said the firings were over “creative differences” and had “absolutely nothing to do with the lawsuit.” Alan Light, the former editor of Spin’s sister publication, Vibe, will replace Hirschorn. . . . Former CBS anchor Harry Smith will join A&E; Network’s “Biography” in March as the cable series’ primary host. Current “Biography” hosts Peter Graves and Jack Perkins will retain “an ongoing role” with the series, A&E; said. . . . Val Valentino, the star of Fox’s controversial “Masked Magician” specials, will do a live online chat tonight at 5 (at https://www.etonline.com).