DECEMBER 7, 1979

AT THE MOVIES, Bette Midler (right) apes Janis Joplin and attracts Frederic Forrest in the rock & roll romance The Rose. IN MUSIC, the Eagles continue to dominate the Billboard album chart with their aptly titled The Long Run. IN BOOKSTORES, the Henry Kissinger foreign policy memoir The White House Years is a Publishers Weekly best-seller. AND IN THE NEWS, during a Texas visit to treat his progressing cancer, the exiled Shah of Iran considers which nation will best provide him a safe haven. Less than a year later, he will die while living in Egypt.