Morning Report : ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

MUSIC

Buzz at the Bowl: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men on the moon, will serve as narrator for Holst’s “The Planets” in the Hollywood Bowl’s Labor Day weekend concert “From the Bowl to the Moon--and Beyond,” on Friday and Saturday, with George Daugherty leading the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. On hand Saturday only will be astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, who will read the poem “High Flight” by John E. Megee Jr. to Aaron Copeland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” A full-scale model of the spacecraft Sojourner from the Mars Explorer project, as well as other planetary exhibits, will be on view at Hollywood Bowl Plaza before the concert. Astronauts Michael Gernhardt, Janice Voss and Garrett Reisman will also participate.

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Mainland Debut: The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center and UCLA Performing Arts will present the mainland debut of Hawaii’s Halau O Kekuhi, performing its epic production in ancient dance, chant and ritual, “Kamehameha,” Oct. 1-3 at Japan America Theatre. The work tells the story of warrior chief Kamehameha Pai’ea.

POP/ROCK

Concert Off: The novice promoters of Rock of the Century, a large-scale rock ‘n’ roll charity show slated for Sunday at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, have canceled the show. Orange County businessmen Bruch Marich and Don Brigham acknowledged that the daylong benefit for the California Paralyzed Veterans Assn. lacked star power in its headliners, including former Grand Funk Railroad singer Mark Farner, Blue Oyster Cult and Ambrosia. As of Monday, only 64 tickets had been sold for the 15,400-seat amphitheater. Marich blamed the cancellation on their inexperience promoting a rock ‘n’ roll show, and vowed to return next summer with a benefit concert for the vets.

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Concert On: Pop music stars including Erykah Badu, Sheryl Crow, Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, Sarah McLachlan, Busta Rhymes and Seal have signed on for TNT’s “Bob Marley All-Star Tribute,” TNT and Tall Pony Productions announced Tuesday. The concert, part of the TNT Masters Series, will be taped live Dec. 4 in the late Marley’s native Jamaica, and will be shown Dec. 19 on TNT.

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Big Apple: Singer Fiona Apple, who two years ago tested audience patience with her long-winded MTV Video Music Awards show acceptance speech, could now take the prize for the longest album title in recent memory. The Grammy-winning 21-year-old’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut album, “Tidal,” will hit stores on Nov. 9 with a 90-word title: “When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ‘Fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and if You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and if You Fall It Won’t Matter, ‘Cuz You’ll Know That You’re Right.” No word yet (are any left?) from the singer on the lengthy apple-ation.

MOVIES

Diversity Awards: Academy Award winner Martin Landau will receive the Multicultural Picture Assn.’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Oct. 12 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Landau received an Oscar for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in “Ed Wood.” Other honorees include Selma Hayek, Sally Kirkland, “South Park” creator-producers Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and screen newcomers Djimon Hounsou and Valerie Red-Horse.

TELEVISION

No ‘Park’-ing Zone: But diversity honorees Parker and Stone are less popular in England. The English primary school of South Park in the genteel Southern England town of Reigate is being renamed in a bid to shed the image of the foul-mouthed American cartoon. Although the adult cartoon show is a cult hit in Britain, it is considered not particularly nice by school governor Alan Mayer. The school will be renamed the Orchards.

THEATER

Night of ‘Passion’: The Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical “Passion,” presented in Los Angeles in June by the Musical Theatre Guild, will return for one night only in a Sept. 27 performance at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. The event--with returning cast members Eileen Barnett, Teri Bibb and David Engle--is a benefit for both the Musical Theatre Guild and for Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert. Tickets are $55.

QUICK TAKES

The summer hit “The Blair Witch Project” will be released on video and DVD Oct. 26 by Artisan Home Entertainment. . . . B.J. Ward will extend her show “Stand Up Opera” at the Tiffany Theatre until Sept. 19. . . . Reduced price preview tickets for the Ahmanson Theatre’s Dec. 12-Feb. 12 engagement of “Les Miserables” go on sale Sept. 10. . . . ABC will air a one-hour news special, “Latin Beat”--exploring the surging popularity of Latino pop stars--Tuesday at 10 p.m. . . . The museum galleries of the Skirball Cultural Center will be closed to the public for redesign and expansion through Dec. 4. . . . Teen queen Britney Spears is the first female teenager with an album (“ . . . Baby One More Time”) to top 6 million copies in sales. . . . Bono, lead singer of the Irish group U2, and wife Ali, are the new parents of a 7-pound, 2-ounce son born in Dublin earlier this month.