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7 P10 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER It), l'0 I.OS ANGELES TIMES ENTERTAINMENT SHORT TAKES Springsteen to Perform at Shrine Benefit Show Ballerina Going Strong at 64 BUENOS AIRES Soviet ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, still dancing at 64, says she'll leave the stage forever only when Concert: The acoustic date with Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt will aid the Christie Institute. It will mark the Boss' return to the stage after two years. audiences stop responding. "If I feel I can't give people anything, then I will quit without regret," she said. Plisetskaya, whose performances in "Swan Lake," "Carmen" and "Don Quixote" were benchmarks, recently appeared in Buenos Aires in a ballet by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.

She began dancing at age 4 and entered the Bolshoi's ballet school at 8. At her peak in the 1960s and 70s, her technique was considered flawless, but it was her dramatic interpretations that helped her dominate the stage. Plisetskaya, among a small group of ballerinas who have performed until ''ill allowed to line up at Ticketron locations before 7 a.m. There will be a limit of four tickets per person. The 8 p.m.

performance at the auditorium is designed to raise funds for the Chris-tic Institute, a nonprofit, Washington-based interfaith watchdog group set up to monitor law and public policy. The Rev. William Davis, the group's West Coast director, said the concert will help finance the institute's 1986 lawsuit, dubbed La PenCa, which alleges that U.S. government officials sanctioned illegal arms and drug trafficking to finance private covert operations during the Iran-Contra affair. The case is on appeal in the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta.

"The thing that really excites me about Bruce, Bonnie and Jackson getting involved is that the concert will give more visibility to the battle against covert operations," said Davis, whose office is in Los Angeles. Browne and Raitt's involvement with the institute founders dates back 13 years to their participation in benefit concerts to finance a lawsuit on behalf of Karen Silk- late in life, says age is not as critical in Maya Plisetskaya dance as it is sports. "In sports if you can't beat the record, that's it," she said. By CHUCK PHILIPS TIMES STAFF WRITER Bruce Springsteen will make his first formal concert appearance since the 1988 Amnesty International world tour when he joins Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne in a benefit concert Nov. 16 at Shrine Auditorium.

Tickets for the acoustic show are priced at $25, $50 and $100 and will go on sale Sunday. The $50 and $100 tickets will be available only by credit card phone order through TeleTron, starting at 10 a.m. The $25 tickets will be sold through Ticketron outlets with numbered wristbands distributed randomly to ticket buyers at each location beginning at 8 a.m. that day. Those with wristbands may purchase tickets at 10 a.m.

No one will be Los Angeles Times Bruce Springsteen wood against the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp. Springsteen's affiliation with the group began six months ago when Browne introduced him to Daniel Sheehan, co-founder and chief legal counsel for the Christie Institute. Springsteen has been in Los Angeles for several months working on his new album, which will be released next year. The album's sound is described as "full-scale rock 'n' roll," not acoustic, a spokeswoman for Springsteen said. Actress, 69, Puts Ageist Ideas to Rest 2 Sue for Piece of 'Turtle' Pie The director and a co-producer of the movie "Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles" filed a $5-million suit alleging they have not been paid their fair share of profits from the hit film.

Director Steve Barron and producer Simon Fields claim they were guaranteed 10 of net profits plus salary in an agreement they signed with distributor Golden Harvest Films Inc. in January, 1989. The movie, featuring crime-busting turtles who live in a sewer, has grossed nearly $140 million in the United States. In their suit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Barron and Simon allege that they were fired from the film crew without explanation in November. The movie was about $4 million over budget at the time.

But budget increases had been authorized by Golden Harvest and its chief executive officer, David Chow, the suit contends. The lawsuit seeks $5 million in damages. Officials with Golden Harvest could not be reached for comment late Tuesday. Barron received credit for directing the film. Fields shared production credits with Chow and Kim Dawson.

'Porky's' Star Tries a New Act FT. WAYNE, last time the public saw Dan Monahan he was a wimpy high school student named Peewee, "Yes, there are films about older people, such as but the focus of the film is on a group of individuals in their 70s and 80s. This movie involves three generations, including my character's daughters and a grandson," she explained. "Now, I'm going to make a boring comment. We see older men in movies quite frequently.

But it seems that women are not allowed to grow old in Hollywood. "There is a whole slew of really wonderful male character actors, but not so many character actresses. By VERNON SCOTT UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Swedish-born Viveca Lindfors is, that rare actress who continues to work in movies as she approaches her 70th birthday. Perhaps her screen longevity can be attributed to her high cheekbones, an arresting contralto, her soaring talent or maybe her Scandinavian genes. In any case, she is one of the stars of the new movie Associated Press Amy Irving, son Gabriel.

Irving Juggles 'Chronicles' and a Cradle peeking through a hole in the girls locker room in the 1981 movie "Porky's." Monahan is still hanging around locker rooms. This time, he's not acting. The hot-to-trot nerd in "Porky's" and two sequels has given up acting to become the sales representative and promotions director of the Northern Indiana Basketball Ft. Wayne's new franchise in the Continental Basketball Assn. Misplaced, playing a contemporary Polish expatriate making a home for her family in the United States.

How many other actresses, excepting Lillian Gish and Katharine Hepburn, have worked in films for half a century? She made her movie debut in Sweden in 1941 in "The Crazy Family." Her first Hollywood film was "The Adventures of Don Juan" with Errol Flynn in 1948. A veteran of the theater and television as well, Lindfors has played a dozen nationalities in her 70 films and 50 plays. Age, she says, should not shorten an actor's professional life. After all, the world is filled with people in their 70s and That because men run the industry. "It would appear that there are millions of women who would like to see characters on the screen with whom they can identify, women their age who are not stereotyped," she said.

"Maybe it is necessary for women of my generation to write and produce some motion pictures themselves." To that end, Lindfors wrote, produced and directed "Unfinished Business," a short movie for the American Film Institute. She also co-produced film versions of "The Jewish Wife" and "The Stronger." "Older women can be sexually exciting," she said. "In 'Unfinished I wrote love scenes and a shot in which "It's still entertainment in a sense, and DOUGLAS R. BURROWS For The Times Dan Monahan yet it's different," Monahan said Emmy she won last on "Life Goes On." Viveca Lindfors with month for guest role 80s. Of her role as Zofia, the Polish grandmother in "Misplaced," she said: "'Misplaced' is unusual because it is a story that includes a major role for a woman of my generation.

I run around naked. I have an incredible scene in a Jacuzzi with myself and a young girl with whom my character's husband is having an affair. "The older woman gets her husband back." Actor Brad Dourif Crazy About His Job Amy Irving wasn't sure she wanted to return to the stage less than five months after giving birth, but the producers made her a deal she couldn't refuse. "My initial instinct was to say, 'No, I want to stay home with the said the actress during break from Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "The Heidi Chronicles." As she spoke, she cradled 4V-month-old Gabriel, her son with Brazilian director Bruno Barreto. Barreto directed Irving's recent film "Show of Force." The Ahmanson Theater, which is presenting "The Heidi Chronicles," arranged for a nursery next to Irving's dressing room and found rehearsal space near the home of her mother, actress Priscilla Pointer.

In addition, they slated rehearsals around the kindergarten schedule of Irving's 5-year-old son, Max, from her marriage to Steven Spielberg. The production runs through Dec. 23 at the UCLA James A. Doolittle Theater in Hollywood. Irving plays the character Heidi Holland during the years 1965-1989.

Heidi, is an art historian and feminist who finds her beliefs challenged by the changing times. Monday. That what I need. The team, as yet unnamed, begins CBA play in the 1991-92 season. Sandusky, Ohio, Goes Hollywood SANDUSKY, Ohio Filmgoers in the Sandusky area will be among the first to see a movie written by Sandusky native Karen Lee Hopkins and filmed in two northwestern Ohio cities.

The film, "Welcome Back, Roxy Carmichael," was to open tonight at the State Theatre, whose manager, Rick Diehl, said he planned to offer a Hollywood-style premiere. "You will see spotlights, you'll see limousines, you'll see a red carpet, you'll see palms in the lobby of the theater," Diehl said. "It's just a real pleasure to be able to host something like this." Hopkins had a hand in arranging the premiere at the State, which will use the showing as a fund-raiser for the theater's restoration. The movie, starring Winona Ryder, Dinah Manoff and Jeff Daniels, is about a successful girl from Clyde, Ohio, who returns home. Some scenes were filmed in Ohio, and the rest were shot in a small town in California.

"Life is starting to imitate art, in which now Karen is coming back as a celebrity in her small town in Sandusky," Diehl said. "So we're really looking forward to the premiere." 'Simpsons' Is Dream Come True Cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of television's offbeat cartoon family "The Simpsons," says his mission is to offer a joke for everyone. Making a career of wackos has its rewards. In "The Exorcist III," Dourif spoke one of the longest, uninterrupted monologues in recent memory. Locked in a prison cell with George C.

Scott for the scene, Dourif reeled off 20 pages of script during the single speech. "I memorized it in about three weeks," he recalled. "I'd read it through over and over for two hours By VERNON SCOTT UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Brad Dourif has played so many crazies he's sometimes tempted to doubt his own sanity. Dourif's tenure as a nut case dates to the beginning of his movie career 15 years ago in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," where he played the role of Billy Bibbit. Since winning an Oscar nomination for that portrayal, the slender, red-haired actor has appeared in 20 movies, playing a succession of maniacs, weirdos and mental cases.

Still, Dourif is not dour about his plight. Like most actors, he is convinced that lunatics are more fun to play than what passes for normal types. Most recently, Dourif was seen as the Gemini Killer, possessed by the devil in a priest's body, in "The Exorcist III." How deranged can you get? "That's about as far as you can go," a grinning Dourif acknowledged during a recent lunch. "But I can't say I think any of this is type-casting. That would drive me crazy." Dourif's other roles included a murderous racist cop in "Mississippi Burning" and the homicidal doll in "Child's Play." Dourif in "The Excorist III" every day.

Dourif took time out from his film career to teach acting at New York's Columbia University for a couple of years. But the lure of greasepaint and Hollywood greenbacks brought him back to movies. "Right now I'm pretty popular with young people," he said, laughing. "They love horror films and, believe me, I play some pretty horrible characters." LIZ SMITH "Our ambition is to do a show that is watched by the whole family," Groening said in an interview for today's syndicated TV show "Personalities." "We know that not everybody is going to get every joke, but we think that there's enough stuff in there for the little kids, as well as more sophisticated stuff for grown-ups and ourselves to keep everybody amused." The fall premiere of Fox Network's "The Simpsons" airs Thursday night. Groening said he's always dreamed of having a prime-time cartoon show.

"It's a strange fantasy to have," he Universal Bets on an Oscar With Redford's Gambler Matt Groening UNIVERSAL IS happy over its $35-million epic "Havana," starring Robert Redford as a circa-1958 gambler during the Castro revolution so giddy, that they've decided to move the film's Christmas release up to Dec. 12. Then they'll sit back and wait for the Academy Awards. Could Redford, who is not the most popular guy in Hollywood, collect an Oscar from his peers now? (He did win in 1980 as the director of "Ordinary I don't know the answer; this is a WERE THOSE great public relations practitioners of yesteryear alive today Ivy Lee, Ben Son-nenberg, Steve Hannagan it would be fascinating to see if any of them could snatch Roseanne Barr's image chestnuts from the fire. She didn't win any friends with her recent advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter's 60th anniversary edition, wherein her message to her peers read: "This town is a back-stabbing, scum-sucking, small-minded town, but thanks for the money." New York's Plaza hotel when Mrs.

Reagan serves as honorary chairman for the celebration of Helen's 90th birthday. That first lady of the tabloids, Ivana Trump, will be vice chairman of this event, and New York's own first lady of charity, Brooke Astor, will run the benefit committee with a slew of other big names. Proceeds from this happy occasion will go as a birthday gift to Helen for her Tappan Zee Performing Arts Center in her beloved Nyack, N.Y. man who marches to his own drum and bugle corps. He is said to have turned down the leading roles in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "The Graduate," "Rosemary's Baby," "Love Story" and "The Day of the Jackal," to name only a few.

It would be nice to see the Blond One back in there in the lead. FIRST LADIES: Helen Hayes of the American theater and Nancy Reagan of the American White House will be together Oct. 22 at said. "I was actually surprised that no one else did it. I mean, when I was a kid watching 'The Jetsons' and 'The Flintstones' and 'Jonny Quest' and a few other forgotten ones, I thought that somebody else would catch on.

"It seems to me that there was an audience there, and I certainly felt part of it was for good animation on at night." h'rom Times Wire Services.