POP/ROCKHall of Fame Inductees: The late John...

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Hall of Fame Inductees: The late John Lennon, already included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Beatles, will also be represented for his solo work. Lennon was among eight inductees announced Tuesday. Among others voted into the hall by 600 music industry professionals is reggae legend Bob Marley, whom voters had previously passed over eight times. Other honorees are the groups the Grateful Dead, the Animals and the Band, and solo performers Elton John, Rod Stewart and Duane Eddy. The performers will be inducted Jan. 19 in New York.

TELEVISION

Moving On: Mary Alice Williams, who left a vice presidency and anchorship at CNN in 1989 to join NBC News, has resigned from the network “to face new challenges.” Most recently, she has been a correspondent for “NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw,” and from 1990 to 1992 she co-anchored “Sunday Today” with Garrick Utley. In a brief memo to the NBC News staff Monday, however, Williams hinted that she might be back. “Leaving you is the toughest decision I’ve ever had to make,” she wrote. “It was nice of (NBC News) to let me use this space . . . and to keep the door open should I decide to wade back in.”

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25 Years of Ticking: CBS News celebrates the silver anniversary of “60 Minutes” on Nov. 14 with the broadcast of “60 Minutes . . . 25 Years,” a two-hour special with CBS News correspondent Charles Kuralt. The special, described as “a celebration of this nation’s most enduring news broadcast” and “ ’60 Minutes’ as you’ve never seen it,” will include in-depth profiles of correspondents Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Lesley Stahl and Steve Kroft, and also follow-ups on people “60 Minutes” reported on in years past.

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He’s Chevy Chase and the Theater’s Not: The Chevy Chase Theatre in Hollywood, the site of the just-canceled Fox late-night talk show hosted by Chase, has been de-Chased. The elaborate colorful paint job on the Sunset Boulevard building has already been painted over, and all mention around the building of Chase, including the sculpture of him falling off a painting scaffold that had been placed at the top of the building, has vanished. Chase himself, however, has not disappeared. He showed up Monday night at the Improv on Melrose and performed for 90 minutes with the improvisational group Off the Wall.

STAGE

Ahmanson Plans: The lobby, box office and forecourt plaza at the Ahmanson Theatre will be reconfigured along with previously announced alterations of the auditorium itself, Center Theatre Group officials announced Tuesday. The additional work will attempt to create “a more open feeling” similar to that at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion across the Music Center plaza. The price tag of the remodeling has risen to $17.1 million from the previously reported $14 million. Major construction is expected to begin next month, with completion scheduled for December, 1994.

PEOPLE WATCH

Standing Up for Supplements: Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Eddie Albert, Laura Dern, Randy Travis, James Coburn, Lesley Ann Warren and talk-show host Jenny Jones are among the celebrities joining in Washington’s health-care debate. The celebrities sent a 50-minute video--in the form of an infomercial--to Congress and the White House on Tuesday to urge support for the use of vitamins, herbs and other “natural” dietary supplements, which the Food and Drug Administration plans to restrict. The video was produced by the Health Freedom Task Force--a nonprofit entertainment industry group that has also done a series of TV public service announcements on the subject.

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Speaking of the White House: Michael Bolton, Boyz II Men, Brett Butler, Natalie Cole, Whoopi Goldberg, Jay Leno and Kenny Loggins are among the musical and comedy acts scheduled to perform later this month before the First Family at “A Gala for the President at Ford’s Theatre,” which will be televised Nov. 24 on ABC. The show, part of an annual series honoring the President and First Lady, celebrates the 25th anniversary of the restoration of the historic Washington theater, which remained in darkness for 103 years after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination there. The restored Ford’s Theatre reopened in 1968.

QUICK TAKES

Buddy Ebsen will be honored today for his co-starring role in the 1950s Disney series “Davy Crockett.” Ebsen will receive a 1993 Disney Legends Award, as will posthumous honorees Clarence (Ducky) Nash, Jimmy MacDonald and Pinto Colvig, the original voices of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy, respectively. . . . Actress Jane Alexander will discuss her new role as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts at 5:30 tonight on cable channel CNBC’s “Equal Time With Mary Matalin and Jane Wallace.”