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Hall of Fame Songs: Bob Dylan’s 1963 classic “Blowin’ in the Wind,” the Beach Boys’ 1966 groover “Good Vibrations” and Tony Bennett’s 1962 ballad “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” are among six inductees announced Tuesday for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ 21st Annual Hall of Fame, which honors recordings for their lasting quality or historical significance. The additional inductees are “Crazy Blues” by Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds (1920), Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” (1954) and the “Miles Ahead” album by Miles Davis with Gil Evans & His Orchestra (1958). The latter is the third Davis album to be feted, along with “Birth of the Cool” (1957) and “Kind of Blue” (1959).

TV & RADIO

Suit Filed in ‘Sesame Street’ Cast Death: The parents of a 9-year-old regular on PBS’ “Sesame Street” who collapsed on her school’s playing field have filed a lawsuit accusing the Pennsylvania school of negligence in her death. Nadia Conroy, a fifth-grader at the private Swain School in suburban Salisbury Township, collapsed from a heart rhythm problem during field hockey practice on Sept. 15. The girl’s parents say the school lacked an adequate emergency plan and waited 20 minutes to call an ambulance. The lawsuit maintains that although Nadia was given oxygen, no CPR was administered, and she was dead by the time paramedics arrived.

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Moriarty vs. Reno (cont.): “Law and Order” star Michael Moriarty, who has taken up a personal crusade against U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno over her stand on TV violence, took out a full-page ad in Tuesday’s Hollywood Reporter asking for support from the network television community. After a Reno quote concluding: “If you don’t change your ways I and my friends will pass a bill to make it unlawful,” Moriarty wrote: “This could be your business in a year” and requested faxed signatures to fill another ad to “obliterate her message.”

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‘Roc’ Solid Against Guns: The Fox comedy series “Roc” will address the crucial social issue of kids and handguns in its Jan. 4 episode in which Roc (Charles S. Dutton) learns that a friend of his teen-age ward, Sheila (Alexis Fields), uses a gun to protect himself against a gang. “I’m hoping that this . . . will be the beginning of the kind of responsibility the Hollywood industry will undertake to curb television violence,” says Dutton, who concludes the show with a public service announcement urging parents to take responsibility for their children and stop the use of handguns.

RADIO

Closing the Gates: Daryl Gates goes back into retirement at the end of this week, when the former LAPD police chief ends his stint as a talk-show host for KFI-AM. David Hall, program director for KFI, said that Gates had originally taken the job on a temporary basis and the station decided the end of the year would be “the right time for him to move on.” Hall said Gates had not been working in the 7-9 p.m. weeknight slot long enough to generate his own ratings, but said that Gates had “good ratings” in his year on the air. Replacing Gates will be stand-up comic Stephanie Miller, who will comment on issues of the day. . . . Meanwhile, a former KFI talk-show host, Tom Leykis, has been arraigned in Boston on charges that he assaulted and threatened to kill his third wife, Susan, after a Christmas party. Leykis, now working at Boston’s WRKO-AM, pleaded not guilty and was released on his own recognizance. A trial is set for Feb. 2.

THE ARTS

Double Dose of Mamet: One of David Mamet’s first plays, “Lakeboat,” is scheduled to share the Tiffany Theatre this February with his latest, the controversial “Oleanna.” According to Tiffany owner Paula Holt, the 1970 work is to be directed by longtime Mamet actor Joe Mantegna, co-produced by Tony Mamet (the playwright’s brother), and will star Ed O’Neill of TV’s “Married . . . With Children.” “Lakeboat” will open at the two-stage complex shortly after “Oleanna” opens Feb. 4.

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Lost Haydn Sonatas May Be Forgeries: It sounded like a brilliant find: An elderly woman’s papers included manuscripts of six lost 18th-Century piano sonatas by Franz Joseph Haydn. Music experts applauded the discovery and a festive recital was planned at Harvard University. But, some German music experts now say the works are fakes. “The elderly lady is an invention. The manuscripts are a forgery,” said Horst Walter, director of the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne. He added that an “overwhelming majority” of experts who met to discuss the manuscripts had decided the music was not Haydn’s. Hence, Harvard has dropped its plans to debut the sonatas in February.

QUICK TAKES

Vice President Al Gore will speak at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences “Superhighway Summit” conference at UCLA Jan. 11. His topic: the Clinton Administration’s legislative and administrative plans for a National Information Infrastructure. . . . The National Endowment for the Arts has named singer-pianist Carmen McRae, drummer and band leader Louie Bellson and pianist-composer Ahmad Jamal “masters of jazz,” an honor that carries awards of $20,000 each. . . . Christmas bells combined with wedding bells in Lake Tahoe Dec. 18 when “General Hospital’s” Kristina Malandro (who plays Felicia Jones) and Jack Wagner (who played Felicia’s husband, Frisco, on “GH”) tied the marital knot in real life. . . . Also hitched: comedian Rodney Dangerfield, 72, who wed businesswoman Joan Child, 42, in Las Vegas Sunday.