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F2 SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1996 LOS ANGELES TIMES i Saturday Night Liveliness: Battle of the Bands, '96 Style MORNING REPORT Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press. acarais, LA WZSKLY RADIO week with Seattle rockers Alice in Chains and touted rookie D'Angelo; April 27 with chart-topping rapper Coolio and rock band Garbage; May 4 with two rising young acts, hip-hoppers the Fu-gees and rock group the Verve Pipe; May 11 with Stone Temple Pilots and Radiohead; and finishing May 18 with the Foo Fighters and another act to be announced. "It was very important for Roseanne not to book just established acts, but strong up-and-comers," says Joel Gallen, the show's producer and a veteran of music-oriented television, with credits including "MTV Unplugged" and the channel's "Video Music Awards." "Her daughters are young and she knows this music, and she wants the show to have a younger and hipper audience than 'Saturday Night Television: Rosean tie's 'Saturday Night Special' premieres tonight with Melissa Etheridgeand Bush while 'Saturday Night Live' counters with Rage Against the. Machine. By STEVE HOCHMAN SPECIAL TO THE TIMES If! I hen Fox's "Saturday Night lj Special" debuts tonight at 11, executive producer Roseanne will be using pop music as a first line of attack.

For the show's six-week test, Roseanne has lined up some hot pop acts as 'ammunition in her challenge to "Saturday Night Live," the NBC series that has had a virtually exclusive weekend franchise for more than 20 years. Tonight's show features two music acts, Melissa Etheridge and Bush, the English band whose combination of hit songs and the hunk appeal of frontman Gavin Rossdale has generated 3 million sales for its debut album. The strong roster continues next Handel Issues Apology: kfi-am (640) host Bin Handel, pressured by several Asian American advocacy groups, apologized on the air Friday for remarks he made last month about U.S. figure skaters Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan. Reading from a letter that was faxed Thursday to representatives of the skaters and was signed by Handel and Howard Neal, vice president and general manager of KFI, Handel explained that he had been speaking sarcastically last month and apologized for "any pain caused by what we said.

Please know that it was not our intention to demean or belittle you in any way." Handel's March 26 comments came during a routine in which Handel was making fun of banished skater Tonya Harding's wish to resume her skating career. Talking to a caller who said that Harding should be given another chance, Handel said that when he looks at a Wheaties box, "I don't want eyes that are all slanted and like Oriental and almond shaped. I want to see American eyes looking at me." POPROCK Tax Time: Deborah Harry doesn't mind that tax collectors in New Jersey are using one of her hits in a TV commercial to promote a tax amnesty plan. The rock singer who has had tax troubles in New York thinks her former band Blondie's 1978 hit "One Way or Another" is appropriate as a warning to deadbeat taxpayers. The commercial features her chorus: "One way or another I'm gonna find you, I'm gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha." "As far as creating an amnesty for people with back taxes, I think it's a pretty nice thing," Harry said in Thursday's editions of the Record of Hackensack, N.J.

EMIChrysalis, which controls rights to the song, sold it to the state for a reported $30,000 without Harry's knowledge, the Record said. Free STP: The Stone Temple Pilots whose new album "Tiny Music Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop" is No. 5 on this week's Billboard sales chart will play a free concert May 3 at the Wiltern Theatre. Tickets for the show will be available to the public through a series of radio and retail contests. i it writ jf Ki Of course, "Saturday Night Live is hardly rolling over, count ering tonight with Rage Against the Machine, the revolution- (S SANTA MOWCA MANN CRITtWION TBX (310) 269-MANN OAKY -215, 4:50, 7.45, 1000 SAT I SUN mwEsraoooiHS MANNFESflVAL (310) 28ErMANN DALY 2:30.

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600. 81)0. 10 15 LAIC SHOW FBI I 0AHV-21S. 4:30, 7:00, fl 15 LATE SHOW FBI DD CENTURY crrr DO universal city CINEPLtX ODE ON CINE PI EX OOtON CENTURY PLWA UNIVERSAL CIIY CINEMAS UW- CINEMAS (310) 5534291 (818) 9Cfr3767 DAB.Y- 1:30.3:30.5:30, 5 00. 7 15 9:30 7:30, 9:30 LATE SHOW Next week it has the Dave Mat thews Band, also launching a fol (XICOSTA MESA EOworOs Town Cant (714) 761-4184 CDBURBAMK AMC Meda Carrier North 6 (818) 963-9800 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT NO PASSES OR DISCOUNT TICKETS ACCEPTE0J low-up to a hit debut.

Then, after Please see ROSEANNE, FIT 1 nmKuiilitL ill il jl EAVEN HELP US, TELEVISION CHARLIE Sc ITCHY ARE BACK! HorOWitZ Out: Consumer expert David Horowitz, who has been doing consumer reports for KCBS-TV Channel 2 for the last 3V4 years, has left the station. Horowitz said, that station management did not renew his contract, leaving him out of the station's revamped format that began last Monday. Horowitz, best known for his "Fight Back! With David Horowitz" series, said he was pursuing national and local television 6 Earl and Ray just learned they're brothers. It is going to be one heck of a family reunion. Robert Duvall James Earl Jokes "Uplifting! Funny! And Wonderful! 'A Family Thing' has got it all." Neil Rosen, NEW YORK ONE (NY I Horowitz Program Notes: Because of its morning mm "Two Thumbs Up!" SISKEL EBERT 'A Family Thing' is a wonderful thing!" Ohm nicmnivtumir Gen Shallt.

THE TODAY SHOW MED ARTISTS PHKmjNB TO00 BlAQt ANDA HA1NE5 BUTCHERS RUN flWSmwia iRKHAROPEARCEtw ROBERT DUVALL IAMESEARLKMS 'A FAMILY THING' CROSS -iiMKHAEL HAUSMAN -J9M) WILSON iBILLV BOB THORNTON TOM EPPERSON Um anaia es DUVALL. TOOO BLACK RANDA HAINES RtCHARD PEARCE Visit A Family Thing Site on the Internet: http:www.mgmua.comafamilything news programming, Los Angeles' Fox affiliate, KTTV-TV Channel 11, will not follow the network's schedule for new children's programming that was announced this week. Beginning next Saturday, the new "Power Rangers Zeo" will be seen on KTTV on Saturdays at 8 a.m. and Mondays-Thursdays at 5 p.m. "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" will be shown Saturdays at 8:30 a.m., and "Jim Henson's Animal Show" will be shown weekdays at 2 p.m.

MUSIC LA. Philharmonic to Record Film Scores: conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the L.A. Philharmonic are making their first recording of the classic film scores of Bernard Herrmann, including excerpts from his scores for the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock. An extended suite from "Psycho" will be featured. STAGE Taymor Coming tO La Jolla: The experimental theater artist Julie Taymor, who is working on a stage adaptation of "The Lion King" for Disney, will direct and co-design her newest work "The Green Bird" at La Jolla Playhouse, July 28-Aug.

25. Based on a 1765 comic fable by Carlo Gozzi with original music by Elliot B. Goldenthal, "The Green Bird" played in New York earlier this year. The final show announced for the coming La Jolla season is "Honeymoon China," Theatre de la Jeune Lune's adaptation of Feydeau's "Tailor for Women" (Sept. 25-Oct.

20). One previously announced show, "A Little Heart Attack," has undergone a title change to "2.5 Minute Ride" (Sept. 29-Oct. 27). QUICK TAKES Stacy Keach will star in "An Inspector Calls" at the Ahmanson Theatre, May 15-June 30, along with Kenneth Cranham of the original London and Broadway casts in the title role.

Actor-director Forest Whitaker and actress Beverly Todd On will be honored at the 14th annual Black American Cinema Society Independent Filmmakers Awards, on Sunday at the Palace in Hollywood. Bill Monroe, the 84-year-old father of bluegrass music, has been hospitalized in Nashville for about three weeks undergoing tests for circulatory problems, his manager said. Warner Bros, has moved up the release of "Twister" one week to May 10, launching the summer box-office season. It is a thriller about tornado chasers from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. The decision gives Warner Bros, nearly two weeks of box office before another potential blockbuster hits the nation's theaters Paramount's "Mission: Impossible" starring Tom Cruise.

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