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Page 16 Sunday. August 3.1986 THE GUIDE Julio's ego trip successful journey NBC sets movie on Ted Kennedy Jr. TV movies have previously covered the lives of John Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. Next season, the new generation of America's most famous family becomes fodder for TV movies when NBC airs "The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story." The film tells the story of young Kennedy, who overcame the loss of a leg to cancer, but went on to lead an active life and become an advocate for the rights of the handicapped.

Kirnber Snoop III will play the young man, while Craig T. Nelson to Glory." plays Sen. Edward Kennedy. Susan Blakely is cast as Joan Kennedy. Ted Danson of "Cheers" will star and co-produce "When the Bough Breaks," a new NBC movie.

He plays a child pyschologist who conducts an obsessive investigation into a series of murders that points to a clique of powerful men involved in a child- molestation ring. The drama is based on the novel by Jonathan Kellerman, which won the 1986 Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Novel. The cast also includes Richard Masur, Rachel Ticotin and Kim Myori. There will be a couple of new faces at the St. Gregory when "Hotel" begins its fourth season.

Efrem TimhalLit Jr. will portray Charles Cabot, Mrs. Cabot's cousin and the representative of the Cabot family in legal matters pertaining to the hotel. Also joining the cast of the ABC series is Michelle Phillips, the former member of the Mamas and the Papas, who recently authored a tell- all book about her life during the 1960s. She will play Elizabeth Bradshaw, the new concierge.

Perry King and Francesca Annis the Cherry have been added to the cast of "I'll Take Manhattan," the upcoming CBS miniseries adapted from Judith Krantz's latest novel. The miniseries will also feature New York real-estate mogul Donald Trump in a cameo role as himself. Last season, viewers had a chance to see three generations of Mitchums Robert, Christopher and Bentley in a TV movie. This season, three generations of another Hollywood clan the Bridges will appear in an episode of ABC's "Disney Sunday Movie." Lloyd Bridges, his son, Beau, and grandson, Jordan, will star in "Chester. I Love You," a drama about a boy who learns the meaning of responsibility when he agrees to raise an injured gosling for his neighbor's Thanksgiving dinner.

By Ian Banner HOLLYWOOD From the second Farm Aid Concert on July 4, through a barrage of TV news and talk-show appearances to his latest United States tour this month, Spanish singer Julio Iglesias remains one of the most relentlessly promoted personalities in the history of hyperbole. As a result, he's incurred the wrath of reporters and reviewers who have written thousands of words of invective about him, overlooking the ancient Hollywood adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. And the truth is that Iglesias's four-year campaign to parlay his stupendous stardom in Europe and Latin America into similar status in the United States has been an unqualified success. Reviews don't matter much set against the simple fact that 4,000 people a night are willing to pay $50 per head to hear him sing at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, or that his TV DIALOGUE Clark is 56 years young; William Shatner is 55 AGELESS Please settle a dispute for some senior citizens. How old is Dick Clark? B.M., Majestic, Ky.

Dick Clark seems to never age. He was born on Nov. 30, 1929 in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., which makes the entertainment impresario a youthful 56 years old. DIAMOND FAN Where can fans write to Neil Diamond? B.T., Millbury.

Mass. Fans of this popular recording artist and composer will be delighted to know that Diamond has broken the standing house record for consecutive performances by a single performer or act in contemporary music at Madison Square Garden. Because of sellouts, he had to add three additional dates to his MSG engagement last month. Send mail in care of his fan club, Friends of Neil Diamond, P.O. Box 3357, Los Angeles, CA 90028.

SHATNER INFO Please give me William Shatner's birthdate and tell ine where he was born. T.L., Woodbury, N.J. Shatner, best known for his "Star Trek" and "T.J. Hooker" roles, was born in Montreal, Canada, on March 22,1931. CALLING MACGYVER Where can I write to Richard Dean Anderson of J.T..

Peoria. HI. This fan favorite receives mau in care of Paramount Television, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Ix)s Angeles. CA 90038. STATLER FACTS I'm a country music fan and would like an address where I can write to my favorite act.

the Statlers. D.D.. Millport, Ala. The Stats, whose latest album on Polygram is "Four for the Show." get mail in care of the record company at 10 Music Circle South. Nashville, TN 37203.

'986. TV SpoUttht i Send vo tsena your letters to Tom Reinhold. United Feature Syndicate, 200 Park Room 602, New York. 10166. Due to the large volume of mail, personal replies cannot be Riven.) Sinatra" or "the Latin Elvis Presley." "I admire both those men very much, but I do not try to sing like them or anyone else.

I want to be accepted as 'the old and that is the purpose of being on television and doing interviews with newspapers. "Another purpose, of course, is that my ego likes me to be treated like a star!" The Iglesias ego draws great satisfaction from the fact that he has broken house records at Caesar's Palace, and that until recently, the hotel's most celebrated draw was Frank Sinatra. "My style is not American, so I know I will never be as famous as Mr. Sinatra," says Iglesias. "But I am very happy that I can be different, and still be a success." concerts at less-expensive venues across the country ace invariably SRO.

"I am happy to admit that the publicity campaign was for my own personal ego," says Iglesias. "Absolutely! Every true artist has a big ego, and it made me crazy that I could sell more than 100 million albums around the world and no one in the USA knew who I was. "But even my ego is not big enough to fill a concert hall on its own," he continues. "People might pay to see me once because of a publicity campaign, but they would not come back to see me again and again if they did not enjoy my performance." Iglesias says with his trademark good humor that he is a little tired of being described as "the new Frank Fats and friends rock the house By Andrew J. Edelsteln Have you heard the There's good rockin' tonight on "Cinemax Sessions: Fats Domino and Friends." one of the liveliest music specials seen on cable in some time.

Fats Domino was never as flamboyant or controversial as many of his rock 'n' roll contemporaries, lacking the electricity of IJttle Richard or the sensuality of Elvis Presley. Yet, in his understated way, the New Orleans singer-pianist ranks as one of rock's founding fathers. He brought the New Orleans school of rhythm-and-blues piano into the mainstream; his exuberant piano playing and rhythmic, humorous singing created dozens of hits, including "Blueberry' Hill," "I'm Walkin" and "Ain't That a Shame." He's 58, but as this special shows, he hasn't slowed down a beat. Domino's "friends" who appear on ON THE CABLE this show are two other charter members of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, Jerry Lee and Ray Charles. who has had his share of emotional and physical turmoil in the past few years appears to be in good health as he once again trots out his two rock 'n' roll classics, "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On," although he looked a little shaky climbing on top of the piano.

When the three pioneers jammed together, it was one of those transcendent moments that affirms the validity of the prediction made 28 years ago that "rock 'n' roll is here to stay." Also on hand for the special, taped in June at the Storvville Jazz Hall in New Orleans, are Paul Shaffer, the music director of Night with David lyetterman" and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones, who jam together. A rock 'n' roll reunion for another generation will be aired later thus year on HBO. Last month, several '60s rockers gathered at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco to pay tribute to promoter Bill Graham on his 20th anniversary in the business. On hand were Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, Donovan, John Sebastian, Sly and the Family Stone and the Chambers Brothers. The special, "A Night at the Fillmore," will air in the fall and will include footage from Graham's personal archives.

Stewart will be touring again By E.A. Vare As he embarked upon his last United States tour two years ago. Rod Stewart thought he might well be Beared up for his swan song. "You've got to look in the mirror," he mused at the time, "and say, 'Well, the second part of your life can't be the same as the first Sooner or iater, it's all going to catch up with you. You have to grow up sometime.

"This will either be the last tour that I do or I'll go on. I'll tell you after the tour." Obviously, the Tartan Terror decided that 41 isn't too old to rock 'n' roll after all, because he has now started a European tour to support his current album, "Rod and is planning to play across America starting in the fall. His video for Touch i Theme from Eagles')" is a top airplay request nationwide. Of course. Stewart has never mudt ROCK ON TV liked doing videos, no matter how ease he appears in front of a camera.

"I can't watch myself on the telly," he says, broadening hi.s Cockney accent. "Can't stand mi' nose!" Independent label Rhino records is distributing an album of previously unreleased tracks by protest singer Phil Ochs, titled 'A Toast to Those Who Are (ione." committed suicide in 19715. This may herald a resurgence interest in the brilliant Uilkie. whose social commentaries are as valid today as they were in hi.s t-ra. Actor Sean Penn has become a voted the i a t.

and hopes to play liim in a film biography couple Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson took a break from recording to open a restaurant in Manhattan, called Twenty Twenty. Their next I.I' will be released by Capitol Records shortly Country artist Janie Fncku got tired of hearing her name mispronounced it rhymes with not with that she had the spelling formally changed. From ntrA uii. her record jackets will read Janie Fnckie. In the studio this month: Peter.

I'a ul ami Mary, Toto. Chaka Khan. John Fogerty, Sheila Julio Iglesias Missing Persons and the Pointer Sisters. (COLORTYME) VJJUU Plaza Del Rey 379-6501 3 Day VCR 11.95 Tues. VCR.