TELEVISION - June 14, 1993

L.A. Scholarships: Twelve graduating high school seniors will receive scholarships to two-year colleges today from a fund started by Steven Bochco Productions after last year’s riots in an effort to help rebuild L.A. The students from Washington, Lincoln, Fremont, Locke and Jordan high schools will be presented with the awards from the Los Angeles Educational Assistance Program, which is also sponsored by Castle Rock Entertainment, at a breakfast at 20th Century Fox studios. Bochco (“L.A. Law,” “Civil Wars” and the upcoming “NYPD Blue”) will attend the ceremony.

* ‘Day of Compassion’: Daytime TV on all three major networks will take part in the official “Day of Compassion” next Monday by airing AIDS-related shows. ABC’s soaps “One Life to Live,” “General Hospital,” “Loving” and “All My Children” and NBC’s “Days of Our Lives” will air AIDS story lines; “Donahue,” “The Maury Povich Show,” “Sally Jessy Raphael” and “John and Leeza in Hollywood” will also focus on AIDS. The day, designed to highlight the need for a compassionate response to AIDS, was coordinated in part by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation/Los Angeles.

* AIDS II: “In a New Light II,” an ABC AIDS information-entertainment special following up a similar July program, has been scheduled for Labor Day weekend. Guests lined up so far include Clint Black, Garth Brooks, Michael Douglas, Melissa Etheridge, Goldie Hawn, Barry Manilow, Liza Minnelli and Sting. The program will feature a toll-free 800 number for the National AIDS Hotline, which will give viewers information on volunteering, HIV testing sites and counseling.

* The Best vs. the Best: TV Guide’s readers have chosen their fave TV shows of all time in a poll published in this week’s issue. And the readers’ choices differ from the magazine’s editors selections published in April. While TV Guide chose “The Cosby Show” as best family show, the readers voted for “Little House on the Prairie.” Readers voted “Perry Mason” best drama--the editors chose “St. Elsewhere.” Readers named “The Flintstones” as best cartoon; TV Guide chose “The Simpsons.” The readers and editors did agree in some categories: “MASH” for best sitcom; “Dallas” for best prime-time soap.

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* Arrested: Luther Campbell, lead singer of the rap group 2 Live Crew, was arrested last week in Chicago for disorderly conduct after police said he became abusive to workers at a restaurant in a shopping mall. But Campbell said he was accosted by a waitress and a manager, who he says singled him out because he is black. The rapper was released within an hour on $75 bail. Campbell was in Chicago promoting his new album, “Luke in the Nude.”

MUSIC

* Choral Honors: Paul Salamunovich, music director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, was honored for his contribution to choral music at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Sunday. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award during a concert of the Manhattan Philharmonic directed by John Rutter and featuring a 240-voice chorus. The award includes a $5,000 grant to be donated to the Nanette Salamunovich Goodman Memorial Scholarship Fund at Loyola Marymount University.

QUICKTAKES

* Tom Selleck gets the Mary Pickford Award, in honor of the silent movie star, on Saturday at the Pickfair Lodge in Beverly Hills at a celebration commemorating the actress’ 100th birthday. The award is sponsored by the Motion Picture and Television Fund. . . . Actress Sharon Stone will host a one-hour television retrospective on 1930s blond bombshell Jean Harlow on cable TV’s TNT in August. The special will feature clips of Harlow’s films including “Public Enemy,” “Dinner at Eight,” and “Bombshell.” . . . A reminder for Paul McCartney fans: Westwood One radio network (KLSX-97.1 FM in L.A.) and Fox TV Channel 11 will air a simulcast of McCartney’s “In the New World Concert” from Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday from 7-10 p.m. . . . Elizabeth Taylor and David Geffen will host a benefit to raise money to fight the ban on gays and lesbians in the military on Friday at Hollywood’s Raleigh Studios. Others expected to attend include entertainment industry bigwigs Ted Field, Sandy Gallin and Ron Meyer. Proceeds will go to the Campaign for Military Service Education Fund, a group committed to building awareness of gay and lesbians in the military.