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POP/ROCK

Beck Off Silicon Planet: Beck has pulled off the bill of Silicon Planet, the technology and pop culture exhibition scheduled for Oct. 17 at Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar. Marc Geiger, Beck’s agent, said Tuesday that the artist had been led to believe that it was to be a “private, corporate event with tickets sold and marketed only inside Silicon Valley companies.” When it was learned that tickets, at $100 apiece, were available to the public, Beck canceled. Representatives of Applied Materials, the event organizer, could not be reached. The four-city Silicon Planet tour--featuring Devo, host David Spade and a Calvin Klein fashion show along with technology exhibits--benefits AIDS charities.

TELEVISION

Back on the Boat: UPN’s “Love Boat: The Next Wave” will host a reunion of five of the original stars in an episode scheduled to air Oct. 30. Appearing from the original series will be Gavin MacLeod (Capt. Merrill Stubing), Bernie Kopell (Adam “Doc” Bricker), Ted Lange (bartender Isaac Washington), Lauren Tewes (social director Julie McCoy) and Jill Whelan (Vicki Stubing). Anson Williams (“Happy Days”) directs the episode, in which the classic “Love Boat” crew reunites for the marriage of Vicki Stubing. Fred Grandy, who played Gopher the purser, has opted not to participate.

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Coleman Pleads Innocent: A lawyer for former “Diff’rent Strokes” star Gary Coleman entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday to charges that Coleman socked an autograph-seeker in the eye last month. Coleman, now a security guard at Fox Hills Mall, did not attend the hearing. The alleged victim, bus driver Tracy Field, claims that Coleman gave her an autograph but then got angry, hit her and used a racial slur when she asked him to write something more personal. Coleman’s publicist has maintained that Field swung at Coleman first. If convicted of the misdemeanor assault and battery charges, Coleman could face up to a year in county jail and be fined $1,000.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Music on Film: Oscar-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith will conduct the inaugural concert of the New York FILMharmonic Orchestra on Oct. 4 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The new orchestra is billed as “the first organization dedicated to creating a great appreciation of classical music through the utilization of film scores.” It is not related to the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s own Filmharmonic project, which commissions composers and filmmakers to create new collaborative projects.

QUICK TAKES

Earvin “Magic” Johnson will return to late-night TV on Sept. 9 with a guest appearance on NBC’s “Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” It will be his first talk-show date since “The Magic Hour” ceased production early this month. . . . KCAL-TV Channel 9 will air the first televised U.S. senatorial debate between incumbent Barbara Boxer and her challenger, state Treasurer Matt Fong, today at noon, with a repeat at 7 p.m. KCAL anchor Pat Harvey will moderate the event. . . . Priscilla Presley has won a $75,000 judgment against Elvis Presley’s Army pal, Currie Grant, over his claims (included in the Suzanne Finstad biography “Child Bride”) that he had sex with the then-14-year-old Priscilla in exchange for introducing her to Elvis. Presley had sued Grant, one of the book’s key sources, for $10 million. . . . Thanks to the Clinton-Lewinsky flap, cable’s Fox News Channel scored the highest ratings in its nearly two-year history over the past month (the August ratings period of July 27-Aug. 23). The network’s ratings--which include an average 162,000 viewing households in prime time--soared 525% from the same period a year ago. . . . The John Lennon Songwriting Contest’s Mobile Studio, a bright-blue bus that teaches attendees about the art of songwriting, will be at the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard today from noon to 2 p.m. Spin Doctors band member Chris Barron will host the on-board activities.