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

TELEVISION

Gumbel Gets Caught on Tape: An unexpected camera shift--and some amateur lip reading--caught Bryant Gumbel in what appeared to be a profane comment about a guest on CBS’ “The Early Show.” Gumbel had finished a tense interview last Thursday with Robert Knight, a spokesman for the Family Research Council who supported the Supreme Court decision allowing the Boy Scouts of America to exclude gays as leaders. After he ended the interview, the camera inexplicably switched to Gumbel, who was heard to say, “What a . . .” before his microphone was abruptly switched off. Knight believes Gumbel completed the sentence with a profanity and the word “idiot.” The words can’t be heard, but a videotape appears to support that contention. It led the conservative American Family Assn. to issue a statement calling for Gumbel’s ouster. Gumbel left after Thursday’s show for a vacation, spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said. “He was making a casual remark of some sort, but it is unclear what the comment was and, in any case, it bears no relevance to the content of ‘The Early Show,’ ” said a statement from CBS News.

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Latinos Lament Dearth of TV Roles: Latino advocates say they are happy that black actors like Andre Braugher, David Alan Grier and Mykelti Williamson appear to be getting juicier roles in the fall network television season, but they lament the lack of roles for them, American Indians and Asian Americans. “We don’t want the slice of pie African American men are getting in Hollywood. We want the entire pie to be much, much bigger,” said Alex Nogales of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, which met Monday at the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza in San Diego. The Latino advocates are especially perturbed by the fate of “American Family,” the Gregory Nava pilot that CBS declined to pick up recently. But they took heart in Showtime’s premiere of the Latino-oriented drama “Resurrection Boulevard.” One of its actors, Mauricio Mendoza, said creation of that series alone has given work to more than 60 Latino actors and benefited other minorities.

MOVIES

Lilith Fair, the Film: A documentary about the female-oriented Lilith Fair concert tour, which ended last summer, is wrapping up production and may be ready to make its debut at the Toronto Film Festival in September, the project’s producer confirmed. Producer Dean English told MTV News that the footage will be packaged in three versions: a theatrical release geared for film festivals, which will run 95 minutes; and two television specials, one an hour long and the other two hours long, for network broadcast. The program has been sold to Canada’s WIC television network, though the U.S. and world rights have yet to be marketed. At least one retail video version of the documentary will be made available.

POP/ROCK

Reward Offered for Grave Site Vandals: A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of whoever vandalized the graves of two founding members of the Southern rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd. The tomb of Ronnie Van Zant and the mausoleum containing the ashes of Steve Gaines were broken open Thursday at Jacksonville Memory Gardens in Orange Park, Fla. Van Zant’s coffin had been pulled from its tomb but remained sealed. Gaines’ ashes were spilled from their container. Mary Justino, a spokeswoman for the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, said Monday that police still know of no motive and have no suspects.

QUICK TAKES

Faith Prince, Gregory Harrison, Tom Bosley and Dee Wallace Stone have been added to the cast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel,” which will be presented in a semi-staged performance Aug. 13 with John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. . . . Linda Greenlaw will discuss her real-life experiences as the fishing boat captain detailed in the book and movie “The Perfect Storm” in an online chat at 2 today on https://CNN.com/chat. . . . Radio host Don Imus was released from Heart Hospital of New Mexico on Wednesday, where he had been recuperating from injuries suffered when he was thrown from a horse on June 17. . . . Pierre Viot has turned over his title as head of the Cannes Film Festival to Gilles Jacob, who officially becomes president of the prestigious cinema gathering, festival organizers said Tuesday. . . . Voice-over legend June Foray, who has portrayed such animated characters as Rocky and Natasha from the “Rocky and Bullwinkle” series, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Friday at 11:30 a.m. . . . Quincy Jones celebrated the Fourth of July by conducting the Orchestre Nationale de France in a star-studded jazz concert in Paris to thank the French for welcoming so many African American artists over the years. . . . DreamWorks is set to premiere its as-yet-untitled Cameron Crowe project and “The Contender” at the Toronto Film Festival, the studio announced Tuesday. The Crowe project will be presented Sept. 8, and “The Contender,” a political thriller, will premiere Sept. 10, said DreamWorks spokeswoman Vivian Mayer.