Saturday September 2 5:44 a.m. EDT

Entertainment Summary

• Rock 'n' Roll Forever - An all-star rock concert is scheduled for Cleveland today to celebrate the opening of the new Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. After years of delays and cost overruns, the $92 million museum is opening in Cleveland, the city that claims to be the birthplace of the music genre. The six-hour concert is to be staged next door at Cleveland Stadium. It will feature performers including Chuck Berry, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Aretha Franklin and Johnny Cash. The 150,000-square-foot museum is a glass and steel pyramid reminiscent of a number of other I.M. Pei structures.

• Poll Asks Where's Pink? - Pink Floyd, David Bowie and the Velvet Underground are the three acts most undeservedly excluded from the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. That according to a survey of music fans by on-line entertainment magazine Mr. Showbiz. Just over 50 percent of respondents believe Pink Floyd have ``felt the cold slam of the Hall's doors most undeservedly'' in their face. Bowie, who has described the Hall of Fame as ``ludicrous,'' scored 23.7 percent, while the fabled Velvet Underground got 20.9 percent. Jefferson Airplane and the Monkees also rated mentions in the poll.

• Springsteen Plans Album Release - There are reports that after a three-year lull, Bruce Springsteen is getting ready to release a new album. Mr. Showbiz magazine reports that ``The Boss'' will release an ``dark and moody'' album later this year. Springsteen reportedly plays most of the instruments on the as-yet-untitled album, bringing in a handful of players for overdubs, such as bass player Garry Tallent from his disbanded E Street Band. Springsteen's last new albums were the simultaneous ``Lucky Town'' and ``Human Touch,'' both released in early 1992 to modest commercial acclaim. He issued a 2 million-selling greatest hits package six months ago. Mr. Showbiz reports he may also launch a solo tour to support the album.

• JFK Jr. Altar Bound? - John Kennedy Jr. may be ending his celebrated bachelorhood. That's according to the New York Post, which says Kennedy has proposed to live-in girlfriend Caroline Bessette. The newspaper says Bessette threatened to move out after reading a National Enquirer story that Kennedy had a secret romance with actress Sharon Stone this summer. The son of the assassinated president reportedly responded with a ring and a proposal. The 28-year-old public relations executive for Calvin Klein hasn't said whether she'll accept.

• Box Office Limping To New High - The last gasp of the summer box office is at hand with the Labor Day weekend. Barring some last-minute national moratorium on moviegoing, summer 1995 will set a new box office record. But there's little sense in the industry that a new level's been reached or that there has been any appreciable marketplace growth. Labor Day has never been a particularly potent moviegoing time, and the absence of hot new titles should cement a lackluster end to the season. Summer '95 will tally in the neighborhood of $2.14 billion, about $30 million, or 1.5 percent more than 1994.

• Bridges Banned in Philippines - Philippine censors say they've banned the movie ``The Bridges of Madison County'' because of the brief exposure of actress Meryl Streep's pubic hair. The decision immediately came under fire from a Philippines senator who says the ban is a grave abuse of authority and violates constitutional provisions guaranteeing freedom of expression. The movie stars Clint Eastwood as a National Geographic photographer who goes to Iowa and romances Streep, who plays a lonely farm wife.

• Hackman At 'Chamber' Door - Gene Hackman is in final negotiations to star opposite Chris O'Donnell in Universal Pictures' ``The Chamber,'' sources tell Variety. James Foley is directing the project, which is based on John Grisham's bestseller. Hackman, who last starred in ``Crimson Tide,'' would play a white supremacist on Death Row for killing two Jewish children. O'Donnell portrays the young attorney who, the death row inmate soon discovers, is his grandson.

• Ripken Goes to Movies - Baseball star Cal Ripken Jr. has signed a deal to serve as technical consultant on ``The Fan.'' The Baltimore Orioles shortstop, who is poised to break Lou Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 consecutive major league baseball games, will advise on baseball matters for the film. ``The Fan,'' which stars Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes, is about a psychotic baseball fan who stalks his favorite player when the athlete falls into a slump. The movie may strike a chord with Ripken, whose security was increased after he received a death threat.

• Velvet Underground Member Dies - Sterling Morrison, a guitarist of the 1960s rock band the Velvet Underground, has died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at the age of 53. Morrison died Wednesday at his Poughkeepsie, N.Y., home after a long battle with the disease. Along with Lou Reed, John Cale and Maureen Tucker, Morrison founded the Velvet Underground in the late sixties in the Manhattan's East Village. After the group disbanded in 1971 Morrison worked as a medieval scholar, a tugboat captain and toured with Maureen Tucker's band in the 1980s. He also went on the Velvet Underground's 1993 European reunion tour.

• Stern Case Settled - Infinity Broadcasting Corp. has agreed to pay more than $1.7 million to settle complaints about radio shock jock Howard Stern. The Federal Communications Commission announced the deal yesterday. It resolves several pending complaints against Infinity for broadcasting allegedly indecently material on ``The Howard Stern Show.'' In settling the case, Infinity has neither admitted nor denied any wrongdoing. The fine is the largest amount ever paid by a broadcast station licensee.