PEOPLE WATCHStern’s Latest Shockwave: Shock jock Howard...

PEOPLE WATCH

Stern’s Latest Shockwave: Shock jock Howard Stern is at it again, and this time even one of his biggest promoters says he’s gone too far. Stern’s editor, Judith Regan, nixed two doctored O.J. Simpson photos from the talkmeister’s new book--including one of Simpson supposedly instructing Stern on how to slash his wife’s throat--as “beyond tasteless.” But Regan left one in--depicting Stern’s wife, Alison, her neck slashed, her body being run through a meat grinder by Stern as Simpson gives a thumbs-up. Regan said in Thursday’s New York Daily News that the meat grinder photo did not offend her because it was a parody of militant, feminist anti-pornography pictures. Stern said on air Thursday that he wanted the photo for his book’s cover, but Regan nixed that idea, too. The book, called “Miss America,” hits stores next month. Regan Books is a subsidiary of publisher HarperCollins.

TELEVISION

Goodman Returns to ‘Roseanne’: After missing a day’s work on the set of “Roseanne,” co-star John Goodman, who reportedly had been unhappy about the feuds centering around Roseanne, was back at work Thursday, and would be “for all remaining episodes of the 1995-96 television season,” his publicist Stan Rosenfield said. There had been some reports that Goodman was so disgusted he was quitting the show for good--or at least until his character, as Roseanne’s husband on the ABC comedy, had been written out. An ABC spokesman said: “Goodman and Roseanne are back at work, and the show is moving on.”

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Veteran Voice: The Prime Life Network, a nascent cable channel scheduled to launch next March with programming targeted to those 50 and older, has named veteran journalist Marlene Sanders, 64, as its primary news anchor. Sanders, TV’s first female Vietnam War correspondent, also became the first female vice president in network news as head of documentaries for ABC. A spokesperson for the new channel said that Sanders, who also worked at CBS News and has recently been teaching at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, will contribute both in front of and behind the cameras, and “in effect, become the voice of the Prime Life Network.”

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Viewing Notes: Teen singer Brandy Norwood, known to her music fans simply as Brandy, will star in her own TV series. The UPN network has ordered 13 episodes of “Moesha,” in which the 16-year-old Norwood plays an outspoken teen-ager growing up in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park. The series, scheduled to premiere early in 1996, is executive produced by Ralph Farquhar (“South Central”). . . . Saturday is the final airing of ABC’s 8 a.m. Saturday morning children’s series “The New Adventures of Madeline,” which will be replaced with repeats of the Emmy-winning 1988-93 animated children’s series “The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” starting Oct. 28. . . . ABC is remaking Stephen King’s “The Shining,” last seen as a 1980 theatrical movie, as a six-hour miniseries for the 1996-97 season.

MUSIC

New Partners: Pianist Martha Argerich has canceled her appearance in joint recital with violinist Gidon Kremer, which had been scheduled for Monday in the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Argerich has withdrawn entirely from her tour with Kremer “because of back problems.” Russian pianist Vadim Sakharov, who appeared here with Kremer and his Kremerata ensemble in April, will replace Argerich, joining the Latvian violinist in a completely changed program.

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Ohyama to Open Youth Symphony Season: Conductor Heiichiro Ohyama, music director of--among other organizations--the Japan America Symphony, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, will substitute for Mehli Mehta, music director of the American Youth Symphony, at the orchestra’s opening concert of the season, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. in Veterans Wadsworth Theater in Westwood. Mehta is recovering from heart surgery.

QUICK TAKES

David Bowie will perform at a “Pagan Halloween Ball” at Hollywood’s Palladium on Halloween night. Although no opening act is currently scheduled, a Bowie spokeswoman said that Nine Inch Nails, who perform with Bowie at the Forum on Oct. 28 and 29, definitely will not do the Halloween show. . . . Director Woody Allen will make his first late-night television appearance in many years on tonight’s “Late Show With David Letterman.”