Nick kids are all right for host O'Donnell

By Scott Hettrick
The Hollywood Reporter

Rosie O'Donnell will co-host the ninth annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards from New York with host Whitney Houston in Los Angeles.

The show will be recorded at 5 p.m. Saturday at Universal Studios Hollywood and televised live at 8 p.m. EDT (tape-delayed for the West Coast).

The show will also be cybercast via America Online beginning at 7:45 p.m.

Online host Lori Beth Denberg will guide computer users through the behind-the-scenes going on, live chats with celebrities and photographs from the event, which also can be downloaded to computers.

Musical group All-4-One will perform ''These Arms'' and the BoDeans will sing the ''Party of Five'' theme song ''Closer to Free'' from Universal Studios.

Monica will perform ''Before You Walk Out of My Life'' aboard a boat in the New York harbor, from where O'Donnell and other celebrity presenters will be based, including Melissa Joan Hart (''Clarissa Explains it All''), Michelle Trachtenberg (''Harriet the Spy'') and Brian Austin Green (''Beverly Hills, 90210'').

Presenters at Universal Studios will include Brandy, Paula Abdul, Mark Curry, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Tia and Tamera Mowry, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst, Joey, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence, Lacey Chabert (''Party of Five''), Larisa Oleynik (''The Secret World of Alex Mack''), Ben Savage and Rider Strong (''Boy Meets World''), Zachary Ty Bryan and Taran Noah Smith (''Home Improvement''), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (''3rd Rock From the Sun''), Holly Robinson Peete (''Hangin' With Mr. Cooper''), Tatyana Ali (''The Fresh Prince of Bel Air''), Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell (''All That'') and Marcel the monkey (''Friends'').