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Has Family Law's TONY DANZA found his role of a lifetime? The man whose career has careered between Taxi and Going Ape!, Cannonball Run II and Broadway's The Iceman Cometh will assume Bert Parks' mantle as host of the Miss America Pageant on Sept. 22. (In a kismet moment, he made his first TV pilot with Parks.) Danza says he was reluctant when first approached but soon realized, "I'm a big patriot!" He insists that "ultimately I like to have a good time, and I'll be having fun up there." And fun will be had, dammit. If not in his kick-line dance number with 41 luckless contestants, then in a new feature posing questions on news and U.S. history to finalists. Knowing that pageant officials tenaciously pursued him was also flattering. "I love to be wanted!" he enthused. Which may be why he hasn't got around to suing Matt LeBlanc for identity theft.