BY JOEY SASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Norman Lear, the producer who brought us his famed 'All In The Family' and 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,' has now entered the children's field. His company, TAT Communications, is now filming 'The New Little Rascals.' Like MH2, 'Rascals' will go into national syndication, rather than being offered to the networks for their acceptance . . . The rumor around TV-land TV-land is that Johnny Carson will quit the 'Tonight Show' on the anniversary of the show, October 15th. We've also learned that David Brenner is being considered as his replacement. (I wonder what happened to Chevy Chase?) David is really doing his homework, too. He watches the show every night, studies the tapes of each of the 24 times he hosted and prides himself that he never repeated a joke on those occasions when he sat in for Johnny. Brenner has also been careful to obey the unwritten un-written law not to appear on NBC-TV's 'Saturday Night Live.' . . . Peter Strauss says that 'Rich Man, Poor Man' will definitely not be back on TV next season. The decision is reported to have been made despite howls of protest from thousands of angry fans. Strauss is evidently fed up with the character who transformed him from a poor man into a rich man. The actor's marriage to florist wife Beverly almost broke up because of pressures caused by the show. "That's it it's over," he told me. "The last time viewers saw me I was lying dead on the Las Vegas strip. And I'm staying dead I'm not playing possum." EYE ON TV: TV heroes Kojak and Archie Bunker and others who slur 'n slop the proper use of the English language are turning children into bumbling morons, says speech tutor Mrs. Susan Cairns. Catch-phrases like "Who loves ya, baby!" are running rampant in school playgrounds and classes. TV jargon has become everyday language for the kids, she told me. "They watch TV for such long periods that there is no incentive to talk. Family conversations seem to have gone out of fashion. The only other people kids converse with are their friends and they talk the same way." . . . Michael Ansara (come on, you remember Cochise on 'Broken Arrow') just married his longtime girlfriend Beverly Kushlda. Now here's the kicker: Barbara Eden (surely you remember 'I Dream of Jeannie'), his ex-wife, sent Bev a telegram wishing her as many happy years with Michael as she had.There was no maliciousness. Barbara Bar-bara and Michael are still friendly. INSIDE THE TUBE: In Hawaii, with 'Charlie's Angels' it rained torrents every day. Maybe that's what made Angel Jaclyn Smith so homesick that she was near tears. Or might she be missing Dennis Cole? And Angel Kate Jackson has been hearing a lot of long-distance chatting from Burt Reynolds, who's giving Warren Beatty some competition there ... TV supercop David Soul 'Hutch' of 'Starsky and Hutch,' who'd just as soon punch someone on the screen as talk to him, is really a 'pussy cat' in real life. So says beautiful Lynne Marta, the girl David announced an-nounced would soon become the third Mrs. Soul. "David is such a bumbling professor type," Lynne told me, who has lived with Soul for the past three years in a tiny cottage in the Los Angeles suburb of Sherman Oakes. "And his announcement publicly that he was to marry rhe took not only his fans but me by surprise as well. As of now, I'm not so sure of what I want to do. I've been trying to figure out my feelings ever since David made his surprise announcement . J