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CALENDAR a OUTTAKES 'RAMBO' REPORT: KILLING IN POSTERS AND BUTTONS "There hasn't been anything this hot in the business since Michael Jackson." That's how Joe Angard, executive vice president of One Stop Posters, described the rage for "Rambo" posters, buttons and bumper stickers issued by the Monterey Park -based company. (The movie's ticket sales to date: more than $96.8 million.) How hot are they? According to An gard, it takes sales of about 50,000 posters for a company to break even. To date, the three "Rambo" posters have made er, killing with more than 600,000 cop ies sold. Said An- Jf eard: "That's better than Ma- rlnnna Wp 'Miif i Goode," lip-synced in the film by actor Michael J. Fox.

From Patrick Goldstein HUEY TAKES A BOW Along with Huey Lewis' generation-gapping musical contributions to "Back to the Future," the film includes an onscreen appearance by the rocker. But you've got to look fast. Wearing a drab suit, thick glasses and slicked-back hair, Lewis is a nerdy high school teacher who auditions bands who want to play for a school dance. His dialogue won't exactly make movie history: He shouts the word "Next!" into a megaphone. But as Lewis has noted (with a playful role of the eyes) in a documentary about the making of the film, "It was my film debut, so I took it very seriously." From Morgan Gendel SCI-FI IN THE SINAI Long a setting for Biblical epics and Middle Eastern tales of intrigue, Israel is now playing location host to its first science-fiction film Cannon's "Thunder Warriors." Set in Colorado 900 years after the United States is destroyed by nuclear war, it's about a new civilization ruled by women that worships a rock music video.

Scripted and directed by David Engelbach, the $4 -million production stars Laurene Landon and Chuck Wagner, and is shooting in the Dead Sea region (the terrain of biblical Sodom), where temperatures regularly reach 110. From Joan Borsten in Tel Aviv THE LATEST FROM DAVE-TV Fast becoming the unofficial good-will ambassador south of the border, David Lee Roth recently did another spot on Mexico's Sunday night TV show, "Siempre en Domingo" this time live from Guadalajara. Roth strutted his stuff to a capacity crowd at Guadalajara's Jalisco Stadium (where ex-Menudo stars Rene, Fernando and Johnny were no match). Though the city has been beset by lagging tourism due to thought she did fantastic by selling about 300,000." "Rambo" buttons (there are 11) are also spread Rambo' the hottest thing since Michael Jacksonat least in posters, above, and buttons, left. ing like wildfire with sales of 300,000.

Angard also has high expectations for the soon Huey Lewis "Future" is now. THE POWER OF ROCK IN 'BACK TO THE FUTURE' In what seems to be a growing trend, pop stars Huey Lewis the News receive special billing in the opening credits of "Back to the Future," which spotlights the group's "The Power of Love." (The first single from the film's sound-track album, it is No. 35 on this week's Billboard chart. According to Universal music director Brendan Cahill, the credit for a non-theme song is not a first: "We've done it at least a couple of times before, with the Stray Cats on '16 Candles' and Simple Minds on 'The Breakfast Added Cahill: "Music is very important these days it's almost a necessity as a marketing tool. In some ways, the music performers have become almost as important to the film's success as the actors themselves.

We may even give the Lewis song a tag line in the ads for the film." One performer who won't get a tag line is the uncredited Mark Campbell lead singer of Jack Mack the Heart Attack who provided the real vocals to "Johnny B. gard admitted that the licensing agen-thad to shop around for buyers. "We have competitors who aire kicking themselves." As to how much money One Stop will make with its "Rambo" connection, Angard bragged, "It's a real gold mine." He also laughed loudly, adding, "Can you hear my smile?" From Pat H. Broeske to-be distributed bumper stickers. Among the proclamations: "Need an Army? Hire "Rambo America's Newest Weapon," and "Beware This Vehicle Is Protected by Rambo." Of the latter, Angard said, "I expect to see it on every pick-up in America." Though he wouldn't say what the company paid for licensing rights, An- recent reports of violence Roth assured the Halen." Not so, said a Warner Bros.

Records spokesmen, who explained, "David Lee is ecstatic audience (many of whom rushed the stage area) that he loved the mariachi capital. Incidentally, host Raul Velasco introduced Roth as "former lead singer with Van DWEEZIL'S DAD-LESS DEBUT Don't expect Frank Zappa to actually buy a ticket to see son Dweezil, 15, in his screen debut as one of Molly Ringwald's high school pals in the now-filming "Pretty in Pink" for Paramount Pictures. According to the younger Zappa: "My dad doesn't go to movies. He waits for them to come on cable. Or he sees them on airplanes.

Anyway, I only have three lines in this movie. It's nothing monumental." Another look at high school life from John Hughes, who scripted and is executive producing, it two groups of students the Zoids and the Richies. Said Dweezil, "The Zoid I play is pretty much a vacant, distant guy." An impassioned guitarist, he has performed on his dad's "Them or Us" album. "And I do my impressions of the Elephant Man and Yogi Bear on my sister's record," he said, referring to Moon Unit's single, "My Mother Is a Space Cadet." (Now 17, the original "Valley Girl" also has gone Hollywood. She makes her screen debut in the 5 upcoming "National Lampoon's European From Pat H.

Broeske A still very much a part of the group." From Gregg Barrios GONE IN 60 SECONDS Cambridge, is rallying around animator Lisa Crafts as she tries to complete a one-minute eel-animation about the arms race, in time for the first Animation Festival in Hiroshima Aug. 18-22. About $3,000 was raised for the project at a gathering in Harvard Square, Crafts said. "And we still have checks coming in. People seem to want to be a part of this." Crafts' mini-film portrays two arguing world leaders escalating their nuclear threats until they devolve into Godzilla-like monsters, destroying civilization.

At the climax, the people of the world turn on the monsters and yell "Enough!" in 20 languages, ending the escalation just before Doomsday. The theme of the Hiroshima festival: "Love and Peace." From Gerald Peary in Boston FOR THE RECORD Last week's Outtakes credited independent producers Griffin Dunne and Amy Robinson with the upcoming "A Nightmarish New York Comedy," directed by Martin Scorsese (and starring Dunne). The correct title is "After Hours" which has been described as a nightmarish comedy about New York. will detail the daily woes and interactions between Dweezil Zappa get to play age 23 or 24-not a teen-ager. So I'm in the pearl necklace, pearl earrings and a coiffed And she stars in "3:15," about high school gangs, to be released later this year.

"I feel like I'm moving right along," said Foreman, who followed-up "Valley Girl" with a year of training and a European-made horror film about a 15-foot killer bear. "That film probably won't see the light of day. But because I did it, I got to see places like Budapest, Vienna and London." From Pat H. Broeske A 'VALLEY GIRL' GROWS UP Speaking of valley girls, Deborah Foreman, who played "Valley Girl's" title character to-the-max, is now at work as the, uh, driving force of Crown International's comedy "My Chauffeur." Explained Foreman: "This time I get to play a kooky character. She's a 'chick' to begin with.

But by the end of the film, after her experiences as a chauffeur, she's become a woman." Foreman also appears briefly in "Real Genius." Deborah Foreman PAGE 14SUNDAY. JUNE 30. 1985 CALENDAR LOS ANGELES TIMES.