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F.Z FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1991 LOS ANGELES TIMES OPENINGS POP ALBUM CHART MORNING REPORT and entertainment reports from The Times, national and I international navs services and the nation's press. Rank Rank 2 Weeks TIUo (Label) Last Week Weeks Ago on Chart t. "Marian Carey" i 1-44 Marlah Carey (Columbia) 2. "Gonna Make You Sweat" 2 2 16 Music Factory (Columbia) 3. "Wilson Phillips" 3 55 Wilson Phillips (SBK) 4.

"Out of Time" 4 5 5 R.E.M. (Warner Bros.) 5. "Shake Your Money Maker" 5 4 58 The Black Crowes (Def American) A- "Joyride" 1 Roxette(EMI) The Flav in Jail: William Drayton, 31, known as Flavor Flav in the rap group Public Enemy, is serving a 30-day term in Nassau County (N.Y.) Jail for punching his girlfriend the mother of his three children. Drayton pleaded guilty to third-degree assault for hitting Karren Ross, 21, in the face. Drayton also was ordered to pay Ross $334 for medical expenses related to the beating, and she was granted a permanent order of protection against Drayton.

Prosecutors charged that Drayton and Ross were arguing on a street corner and he struck her, leaving bruises on POPROCK KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS Celebrity Theatre, 201 E. Broadway Anaheim. (7 14 535-2000). Country, bluegrass, and glints of metal on the upstart group's new album "Electric Barnyard." 8 p.m. FRONT 242 (Palace.

1735 N. Vino 1213 461-35041. Industrial-edged dance-pop from a Belgian band whoso fatest album is "Tyranny (For You)." KATHY MATTEA (McCallum Theatre. 73-000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert, (619) 346-6505). The country singer recent album "Time Passes By" includes an arrangement of "From a Distance" that includes bagpipes and a choir.

8 m. Also Saturday at the Celebrity Theatre, 201 E. Broadway Anaheim, (714) 535-2000. 8 p.m. NAPALM DEATH, GODFLESH, NOCTUR-NAS (Spanky Cafe.

3850 Main Riverside. (714) 683-36661. Grating sounds from England's underground propagated by the appropriately named Earache Records. Also: Harum Scarum. Brutal Impact.

8:30 m. Also Saturday at the Country Club, 18415 Sherman Way. Reseda. (8 181 88 1-5601 9 p.m. JAZZ STEPHANE GRAPPELLI (Coach House.

33157 Camino Capistrano. San Juan Capistrano. (714) 496-8927). Now 83. the violinist continues to play to jazz hot.

9 p.m. Also Sunday, the Strand, 1700 S. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach, 121313 16-1700, 6:30 and MUSIC L.A. PHILHARMONIC (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Music Center, 135 N.

Grand Ave. (213) 850-2000). Esa-Pekka Salo-nen conducts Carter's Oboo with soloist Hienz Holligor. plus Haydn's' Symphony No. 78 and Sibelius' "Four Legends." 8 p.m.

MICHAEL ROBINSON (Santa Monica Pub-' lie Library. 1343 6th (2 131 278-8245). The composer presents a program ol his computer music. 8 pm. I STAGE "EL DORADO" (South Coast 655 Town Center Drive.

Costa Mesa, (714) 957-4033. Milcha Sanchez-Scott's epic about the consequences of progress in the Brazilian rain forest. Peter Brosius directs. 8 p.m Regular schedule: Tuesday-Saturday. 8 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 2:30 p.m Ends May 23.

"ART WHO?" (Ruth Bachofnor 326 Colorado Santa Monica, (213K. 837-7014). Two one-acts by Kent Broad--l hurst, dealing with opposing viewpoints about art and life. 8 p.m. Regular-'! schedule: Wednesday-Friday.

8 p.m. Ends May 3. Drayton the left side of her face. Carey Comfortably at No. 1 For Now Marian Carey's debut album, "Marian Carey," is still comfortably nestled in the top spot of the Billboard magazine pop album chart and probably won't face any serious challenges for the next week or two.

The only album on the rise in the Top 10 is Enigma's "MCMXC a.D." (No. 7), and that doesn't have strong No. 1 potential. The Rolling Stones' live album, "Flashpoint," is one of the hottest new albums on the chart, rolling up to No. 18 in just two weeks.

Lenny Kravitz's "Mama Said" took a big leap up the chart, from No. 84 to No. 47. Amy Grant's "Baby Baby" is the new No. 1 pop single.

Roxette's single "Joyride," which jumped three notches to No. 2, should be the next No. 1 pop song. The success of the single launched the duo's new album, also called "Joyride," into the Top 20. After entering the chart at No: 41, the album leaped to No.

19. -DENNIS HUNT 'AN INTOXICATING ROMANCE. THE TWO STARS PROVE TO BE A SMASHING ROMANTIC MATCH." -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE "TWO THUMBS UP! 'the object of beauty' IS SOMETHING SPECIAL." -SISKEL EBERT AN ELEGANT FARCE." -Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES MOVIES Calling: Annette Bening, an Oscar nominee this year "The Grifters," will definitely star as the sinuous Catwoman in the second installment of "Batman," Warner Bros, announced 'Thursday. Michael Keaton will reprise the title role and Danny DeVito will be the Penguin. Tim Burton will again direct.

"Batman II" is scheduled for rejease in 1992. Rambo'S Retired: Sylvester Stallone says he has retired his Rambo character but he may not be through with war movies. Stallone took girlfriend Jennifer Flavin to the White House dinner for Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro Wednesday night and said he might someday make a movie about the Persian Gulf War. But Stallone said he wouldn't take on such a project until after a vtwo- or three-year wait "when all the facts settle in and it (the war has really entered into the American tapestry." TELEVISION HBO Gets WflOOpi: HBO has signed Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg (best supporting actress for for three comedy specials that will air on the cable network over the next two years. Secret's Out: For the first time, the Soviet Union's KGB Ithas agreed to cooperate with Western filmmakers shooting a "documentary series about the secret service organization.

Richard 'Price, chairman of Primetime Television, the British production company making the six-hour series, said KGB officials will permit access to files and video clips "which do not affect the security of the state." What that entails remains to be seen. Primetime is nearing completion on a six-hour documentary on the CIA that will air on Britain's BBC next year and shortly afterward on the Arts and Entertainment Network in the United States. Comedy DOCtOr On Call: ABC, looking to bolster the comedy on "Into the Night with Rick Dees," is hiring Los Angeles 'producer Barry Kibrick as a comedy consultant on the late-night The Dees show is adding a new "Mary -show-within -a-show segment called "Deesville," and Kibrick will on that segment as well as other possible comedy projects for late-night. ABC has renewed Dees' show through October. -Case Dismissed: A U.S.

District judge in Ohio has dismissed a lawsuit against CBS, saying Ohio's one-year statute of expired before James Burt filed the action. Burt, 68, a -former gynecologist accused by female patients of performing r.genital surgery without their permission, accused CBS' "West 57th" of defaming him in a program broadcast Oct. 29, 1988. He said vine program, which featured interviews with former patients, destroyed his personal and professional life. RADIO Roberts RedUX: Stations KSRF-FM and KOCM-FM were purchased today by Ken Roberts, the former owner of KROQ-FM, rfor S17.8 million.

The two stations occupy the same dial position 103.1 but KSRF is based in Santa Monica and KOCM is based on Newport Beach. Formerly the stations, which had both played adult contemporary music, had interfered with each other's signals. Roberts plans to simulcast the two stations so that the same programming will be heard on both stations, thus reaching a wide range of listeners from Orange County, through Los Angeles -County. Roberts, who owned KROQ from 1972 to 1986 before he sold the station to Infinity Broadcasting Corp. for $45 million, said that he may change the station's format but has not firmly decided what format he will choose yet.

The industry buzz points to a "progressive rock format. r. ALEENE MacMINN "FUNNY DEVIOUS AND SURPRISINGLY MOVING. JOHN MALKOVICH GIVES HIS SEXIEST PERFORMANCE YET." -David Denby, NEW YORK MAGAZINE AN ENJOYABLY SNOBBISH COMEDY. THERE IS REAL STYLE IN THE PERFORMANCES BY MR.

MALKOVICH AND MISS MACDOWELL." -Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES "MALKOVICH'S PERFORMANCE IS SENSATIONALLY FUNNY." -Terrence Rafferty, NEW YORKER LIZ SMITH plerger for William Morris? 'TTEW YORK "Hollywood is a place where they place you cLN under contract instead of under observation," said Walter The hottest rumor in Tinsel Town has the famous and venerable Morris Agency trying to merge with the elite small agency Triad, which boasts exactly four very big stars Bruce Willis, Patrick tawayze, William Hurt and Melanie Griffith plus some lesser lights. William Morris has had one of the longest Excedrin headaches -in 10-percenter history. That big name Tom Hanks just ankled out of the agency to go to Creative Artists. (He is still smarting over the reviews and box office oh "Joe Versus the Volcano" and especially "Bonfire of the He joins a long list of departing heavy-hitting actors, directors and producers Julia Roberts, Christopher Walken, Anjelica Huston, Costa-Gavras, Norman Jewison. Alan -Hanks Tim Robbins, -Andie MacDowell, Renny Harlin, Peter Weir.

Of course, William Morris still does have Clint Eastwood. Six other motion-picture agents also left William Morris after the well-known Sue Mongers departed the agency not too many CVmonths ago. Five went to ICM and one to Creative Artists. Sue is il-still deciding what she wants to be when she grows up. AVENUE PICTURESano BBC FILMS psfsmr aJON S.

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