POP/ROCKBowie/Nails Concert Set: David Bowie and Nine...

POP/ROCK

Bowie/Nails Concert Set: David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails will conclude their six-week tour with a single Los Angeles appearance at the Forum on Oct. 28. Tickets go on sale Sunday. At the end of Nine Inch Nails’ portion, Bowie teams with NIN leader Trent Reznor for a five-song set of songs by both acts, leading directly into Bowie’s headlining set.

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The Musical Clintons: The First Family’s affinity for music surfaced twice Tuesday. First, the House of Blues announced that actor Jim Belushi, fresh from film location shooting in Australia, will highlight a Democratic fund-raiser Thursday at the West Hollywood club, with President Clinton and Vice President Gore and their wives expected to attend. Belushi, who sings and plays harmonica, will front the house band, the Sacred Hearts. In addition, First Lady Hillary Clinton has invited the gospel artists Clarence Fountain & the Blind Boys of Alabama to perform at the White House next Wednesday at the National Fellowship Heritage Awards ceremony. Fountain and his group were last year’s winners of the award, which honors lifetime achievements in folk and traditional arts. The Blind Boys, a group that originated with Fountain at Alabama’s Talladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind in 1937, recently released an album, “I Brought Him With Me,” as the first artists on the new House of Blues label.

TELEVISION

MTV Europe Fined: MTV Europe was fined nearly $93,000 for broadcasting “smutty banter about under-age sex,” an explicit program on safe sex and a commercial judged to condone destructive behavior, British broadcast regulators said Tuesday. The music channel, owned by Viacom Inc., was punished for three breaches of the Independent Television Commission’s rules. It was the first time the regulatory agency has acted against a satellite channel, and MTV attacked the ruling and claimed that the ITC was seeking to make an example of the London-based video station. “I feel strongly that MTV Europe is being used as a ‘sacrificial lamb’ by the ITC in its attempts to strengthen regulation of cable and satellite broadcasters,” said Peter Einstein, business director of MTV Networks Europe. The channel has 28 days to pay the fine or seek a judicial review.

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KCET Pledges Rise: KCET raised $815,462 during its August pledge drive, up from $709,943 a year earlier. The public television station received 10,444 pledges this year compared to 9,873 in August, 1994. The success of the campaign reflected a national pattern this summer, with 117 public television stations taking in $19.5 million, a 12% increase over last year’s $17.4 million, according to the Public Broadcasting Service.

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Joy on ‘Melrose Place’: The fictional apartment complex which is the battleground for many of the personal conflicts on Fox’s “Melrose Place” was the site for a lavish celebration Monday to commemorate the prime-time soap’s 100th episode. The party took place on a soundstage at the Santa Clarita Studios as Fox Entertainment President John Matoian and most of the show’s cast and crew gathered to toast the success. The 100th episode of the series, which normally airs on Mondays, appears tonight at 9 p.m.

MOVIES

Casting Notes: Jennifer Aniston of the hit TV series “Friends” has been cast in Edward Burns’ romantic comedy “She’s the One,” which begins production later this month in New York, Fox Searchlight Pictures announced. Aniston will also continue on “Friends.” Burns, whose “The Brothers McMullen” has met with critical acclaim, also is in the cast. . . . Keystone Pictures tabbed Dennis Leary and Joe Mantegna to star in “Underworld,” a dark comedy by writer Larry Bishop. Production is slated to start next month under the direction of Roger Christian.

QUICK TAKES

A really big star squeezes onto the small screen tonight when Tom Hanks does a cameo on “The Naked Truth,” returning an old favor (9:30 p.m., Channel 7). The show’s executive producer, Chris Thompson, helped launch Hanks’ career by casting him in ABC’s “Bosom Buddies” in 1980. . . . VH1 President John Sykes and Ticketmaster President and CEO Fred Rosen presented $500,000 to LIFEbeat, the music industry’s organization to fight AIDS, in funds raised through airings of a benefit concert on VH1. . . . Don’t call it The Discovery Channel. One of America’s five largest cable networks, reaching more than 63 million households, introduced a new logo Tuesday and retired the “The” from its title after a 10-year run. . . . Actor Andy Garcia is the newest name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His star, in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, was dedicated in ceremonies Tuesday morning. . . . “The Late Show with David Letterman” will make its second visit to Los Angeles Nov. 6-10, broadcasting from CBS Television City. Letterman enjoyed strong ratings when he first came West in 1994. . . . There she isn’t: Co-host Kathie Lee Gifford is leaving the Miss America Pageant after 11 years. “Her contract was up, and she felt it was time to move on,” a spokesperson said. It was not known if the decision would affect Regis Philbin, her pageant co-host who also hosts a talk show with her.