Beyond TV: Apollo's Centric auditions

GOT TALENT? Then get to Manhattan's Apollo Theater this weekend. Comic Tony Rock's new Centric competition "Apollo Live" is holding auditions Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Eligibility info at bet.com/apollo.

CAVETT ON CARSON Former late-night rival Dick Cavett discusses PBS' new "American Masters" portrait of Johnny Carson at Manhattan's Paley Center for Media, Thursday at 6 p.m. Also previewing "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night" (PBS premiere May 14) are portrait director Peter Jones and "American Masters" producer Susan Lacy. Details at paleycenter.org/events.

CRIMINAL FASHION Television comes under scrutiny, too, in the new Fashion in Film Festival: If Looks Could Kill, at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image. May 12 at 5 p.m., the panel discussion "Crime, Fashion and Television" covers how clothes make the man in series like "The Sopranos," "The Wire" and "Boardwalk Empire." More at movingimage.us/films.

CALLING LATINO FILMMAKERS HBO and the New York International Latino Film Festival are accepting entries in their short film competition, through May 18. Rules at nylatinofilm.com.

BEST COMMERCIALS? Time to pick your American and international faves to be saluted May 21 on CBS' "Clash of the Commercials: USA vs. the World." See the contenders at cbs.com/shows/clash_of_the_commercials.