THE ARTS

Tenor Trio: Opera singer Placido Domingo announced over the weekend that he and fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras will reunite for a concert at the World Cup soccer finals next July at the Rose Bowl. Domingo, in Copenhagen for a concert at a soccer stadium, said that the tenors will perform on the eve of the championship game. The three tenors sang together at the 1990 World Cup finals in Rome in a moonlight extravaganza watched by TV audiences around the globe. “Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert,” recorded live, is the world’s best-selling classical album, with sales of more than 5 million copies.

TELEVISION

Bob’s Back: “Bob,” the Bob Newhart sitcom that was left off CBS’ fall schedule announced in May, will be on after all, airing Fridays at 9:30 p.m., where it was for most of last season. “Bob’s” return comes after CBS and producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason agreed to shift “Hearts Afire” to what she considered a more favorable night than low-rated Friday in exchange for shortening the order from 22 episodes to 13. “Hearts Afire” won’t have its season premiere until after CBS concludes its coverage of baseball’s World Series in late October. “Good Advice,” which had been scheduled for 9:30 p.m. Friday, will be on at 9 instead, in the slot that had been planned for “Hearts Afire.”

News From Denver: This Thursday through Sunday, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw will air their respective newscasts from Denver in conjunction with Pope John Paul II’s visit to that city for World Youth Day. “ABC Weekend News With Carole Simpson” will originate from Denver on Saturday and Sunday, and “This Week With David Brinkley” will be there on Sunday. “Good Morning America’s” Joan Lunden will report live from the conference on Friday.

MOVIES

The Bogie Man: Humphrey Bogart is the No. 1 greatest movie star of all time, says Entertainment Weekly magazine. In this week’s issue, the magazine lists the 30 greatest ever to grace the silver screen. Here’s the rest of the Top 10: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, James Stewart and Jack Nicholson, the highest ranked current performer. Others on the list include John Wayne (No. 15), Elizabeth Taylor (No. 17), Clint Eastwood (No. 18) and the youngest of the screen legends, Jodie Foster (No. 29). The magazine’s editors made their picks based on “the charisma, appeal and influence that the word (star) brings with it.”

A River Runs Through It: Two environmental groups, the Oregon Natural Resources Council and the Pacific Rivers Council, plan to contest state film permits allowing Meryl Streep’s new Universal Pictures movie, “The River Wild,” to be filmed on a protected stretch of the Rogue River near Grants Pass, Ore. The groups say the sets, boats, low-flying helicopters and 120 workers being brought in for the filming could disturb the environment.

PEOPLE WATCH

Media Moguls: Roseanne and Tom Arnold have had their share of run-ins with the press--now they are the press. The Arnolds bought five weekly newspapers in southeast Iowa from Big Grove Publications for an undisclosed sum. A full-page ad in the papers said Roseanne will begin writing an advice column, “Dear Rosey,” in September; Tom will write a column too. The weeklies carry mostly church news, recipes, obituaries and other small-town announcements. Tom’s half-brother, Chris, will be the papers’ publisher.

QUICK TAKES

A crush of concertgoers at a Saturday Bon Jovi concert in Groton, Conn., injured about 40 people, including a dozen taken to hospitals for treatment. Many were injured as the crowd surged toward the stage. . . . Three jackets worn by Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger--valued at $1,000 each--were stolen Sunday from the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Santa Ana where they were on display. . . . Jay Leno, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, Rosie O’Donnell, Kevin Nealon and Bob Saget are among the 200 comics confirmed for the Improv’s 30-hour “Laugh-a-Thon,” a benefit for Midwestern flood victims on Friday and Saturday.

Quotables: “I’m very comfortable saying, ‘You may not like this. Watch something else’ “--Producer Steven Bochco talking about his controversial new show “NYPD Blue” in this week’s issue of TV Guide.

“I don’t know if sequels work. . . . It’s been four years now (since ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ was filmed). The film I was in with Jodie (Foster) and Jonathan Demme was such a terrific piece--I wouldn’t want to spoil it”--Actor Anthony Hopkins telling this evening’s edition of “Entertainment Tonight” that a sequel to “The Silence of the Lambs” is unlikely.