- Life and Death (NBC) - This hospital drama will look at illness from the viewpoint of the patients. Says Jeffrey Lewis, ex-Hill Street Blues executive producer, ``It could save a few lives.'' EAR CUTLINE:CLEMONS:Co-stars in a pilot for ABC this fall. CUTLINE:`STEEL MAGNOLIAS': CBS plans a series based on the film, which starred Olympia Dukakis, left, and Shirley MacLaine.

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- Human Target (ABC) - Rick Springfield stars as a Vietnam vet who goes high-tech to assume the identities of individuals who are being stalked by killers. Clarence Clemons, late of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, co- stars.