THE BUZZ LATIN GRAMMYS WILL NOT BE RESCHEDULED.

The Latin Grammys will not be rescheduled. That announcement came Friday in a brief statement by Michael Greene, chief of the Recording Academy and Latin Recording Academy.

After days of deliberations with the academy's partners at CBS, Cosette Productions and everyone else involved in the telecast, Greene said they concluded ``that it is impossible to reschedule a live, international show of this magnitude.''

The Latin Grammys, which had already been moved from Miami for separate security concerns, was scheduled for Sept. 11 at the Great Western Forum but canceled following the terrorist attacks.

Greene went on to say that ``we are all emotionally devastated by recent events'' and ``disappointed that we will not be able to give this year's deserving nominees their chance to show the world what we already know about them - that they are world-class musical artists.''

The concern of the academy right now, Greene added, is ``determining the best way to (give) the winners their Latin Grammys.''

An announcement on how this will be carried out is expected in coming days.

DEEDS NOT WORDS: Bill Maher's impolitic remarks on ``Politically Incorrect'' might have gotten him in hot water with advertisers, but not with Billy Tauzin, R-La., chairman of the House Commerce Committee.

``We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away,'' Maher said on the show. ``That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.''

The government doesn't intend to ``launch any cruise missiles at him from 2,000 miles away,'' a Tauzin spokesman said. Tauzin and his staff ``don't agree with what he says, (but) we'll continue to defend his First Amendment right to stick his foot in his mouth,'' the spokesman said.

The Tauzin statement came on the day a fellow Louisiana lawmaker might have had the same foot-in-mouth problem: GOP Rep. John Cooksey was reported to have urged racial profiling of Arabs, saying that anyone wearing a ``diaper'' on his head with a ``fanbelt'' wrapped around it should be interrogated.

LETTING CHILDREN SPEAK: KMEX (Channel 34) will broadcast a special half-hour program on how the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., have affected children in Southern California.

Titled ``Los Ninos Hablan'' (Kids Speak Out), ``Noticias 34'' news anchor Nancy Agosto will be the host of this Spanish-language special scheduled for 10 a.m. today on KMEX.

The station says ``Los Ninos Hablan'' will present the restlessness, fears and difficulties that thousands of children are battling with, many of their emotions spurred by the national tragedy on Sept. 11. Children and adolescents alike between the ages of 9 and 15 will express their fears about security, their sentiments on strangers and their anxiety about war.