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(Monday. DAILY c33 a EXTRA FROM HOLLYWOOD MARILYN BECK RYAN, PFE1FFER TAI SHINE TO 'SHINING' ASTING HAS YET TO BEGIN FOR the film adaptation of Susan Isaacs' best-selling "Shining Through" that's to shoot in several months. However. San-dollar Productions President Howard Rosenman reveals volunteers for the lead role include some of the hottest actresses in town and the top candidates are the very hot Meg Ryan and Michelle Pfeiffer. The screenplay for the drama about an American secretary who ends up spying on the Nazis has been completed by David Seltzer, who is directing the Columbia Pictures project And on Jan.

3, he and Rosen-man leave to scout locations for the film in East Berlin, Warsaw and Krakow in Poland, and Budapest, Hungary. i.Mmg the most mis Marine By PATRiCIA O'HAIRE i Daily News Staff Writer 'Xj I EAN, AND MUSCULAR AS -t ytr0" fl a body builder, hair cropped A L2si short like a gung-ho Marine, Stephen Lang was on stage at the xl Music Box Theater in "A Few Good 4' T-t'K 1 Men," for a good five minutes be- fore some of his friends in the au- '-v 1 4 dience recognized him. Vf JJ3 Vf When someone reminded him of vf 4 i mi n.m i fifciftaiM.af 'AJa ft I i iOHN ROC DAILY NEWS On the go afternoon, he I that the other ijA i SEND IN THE MARINE: Stephen Lang, inset, and witn Tom Hulce (above, Anne Archer, and Donald Sutherland jet to Warsaw next month, to go before the big-screen "Eminent Domain" cameras. John Irvin has been signed to helm the drama which will feature both English and Polish cast members. Eye-opening experience Treat Williams has a newfound respect for drug enforcement agents as a result of his work in the NBC "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" miniseries that airs next month.

"When I was in college we called them narcs and thought of them as stool pigeons," says the 37-year-old actor. "Now I think they'll end up being the heroes of the '90s." "Drug Wars" tells the true story of Enrique (Kiki) Camarena, the DEA agent who was kidnaped and tortured in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1985. TV traumas Richard Dean Anderson says that he and the rest of the "MacGyver" troupe are at that point of the season "where we're so tired it's getting catatonic. Our normal workday is from 5 or 6 in the morning to 10 at night; at least we've got the rhythm now, we're in our fifth year and know how to make the show work." He insists he's not concerned that there might not be a sixth year though the series is averaging only a 45th place in the weekly ratings. Faction sickness The "My Two Dads" cast and crew are hearing that the NBC sitcom, which keeps being shifted around the NBC lineup, is being moved again.

"It drives you crazy," says co-star Greg Evigan. NBC confirms that a move of "Dads" from its Wednesday berth to either Saturday or Sunday is in the works. to Brooklyn," to be released in February. Now, in "A Few Good Men," Lang is a Marine a career officer. But this officer is not some dumbbell out of Beetle Bailey he's intelligent well-read, articulate and clever.

The play is about an inquiry into the death of a Marine private in Guantanamo Bay. Two young soldiers have confessed to the crime, but Tom Hulce, as the Navy officer in charge of the investigation, thinks there is more to it than what's on the surface, and getting to the heart of the plot makes for a fascinating evening. grinned mightily. Yeah," he said. "I'm not surprised.

A lot of people have told me that" So what happened? His grin got wider: "Last time I was on stage here, it was at the Roundabout, Off Broadway. We were doing 'Rosen-crantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," and when the reviews came out, they were all very kind, but every single one described me as 'chunky' or something like that I figured I'd better do something before they got around to the word they were all groping for: 'fat' "So I've been dieting and getting in some gym' time, and of course, since we're all supposed to be military men in this play, we have to keep in trim, so it's all fallen into place for me." It certainly has he looks great Lang, 37, grew up in Queens but now lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children. He's essayed a few interesting roles in the decade or so he's been performing. He's been Happy, one of Dustin Hoffman's sons in his revival of "Death of a Salesman," and anyone who has watched "Crime Story" on TV should recognize him as the young prosecutor whose father was a member of organized crime. He's also in the film, "Last Exit possibilities.

You don't get a rip-snorter like this every day, and any time you have a chance to create a role, put your image on it it's hard to turn down. "Also, I wanted New York to get a look at a new thin me. "At the same time, I didn't feel my character in this was fully fleshed out I felt originally he was a paper tiger his position was valid, but it had to be articulated; my vision of him was almost that of a fighting Quaker, a stern man who makes up the rules as he goes along. "So Aaron Sorkin (the playwright), Don Scardino (the director) and I worked together on bringing out various aspects of the character's And what's to all this talk that there's a real drill sergeant backstage keeping everyone in basic-training shape? Lang laughs again. "No, nothing like that Know what we do backstage? We shine our boots.

"And I want you to know that my boots, on a daily basis, are the shiniest of all." to the end. ANG'S ROLE IS NOT PAR- ticularly sympathetic, but it is I meaty. His crisp commands, logical reasoning, quotes from the classics, all join together to shape a man who is more than ordinary. "When this script was first sent to me," Lang says, "it was an early draft, and I wasn't particularly interested. I had just done a play in Chicago, so I was going to do a film before going back on stage.

"But I had to admire the play's LENA FROM COVER scene, that's okay it isn't me," she says), Olin claims she is severely shy in real life, a shyness that she traces back to her drama-school days. "I didn't want to act in front of anyone," she recalls, adding, "Even today, I'm embarrassed to even walk down the street as me. But when I act it isn't me. I love acting that's when I'm happiest" studied the period arid talked to New York Jews who had experiences similar to Ma-sha's, Olin says, been through hell, but if it's something you've been through yourself, you're more loose about it Masha jokes about it, she's ironic about it As an actor, you can't ap-, proach it as 'I understand how you feel' with someone who's been in a concentration camp. You have to try to get over that great respect you have; you can't let it limit you in your acting." Despite all that on-screen emoting and those highly charged sex scenes I have to take my clothes off in a to work on a movie that could make her a major star.

She's been cast as the female lead in the new Robert, Redford film, "Havana," a romantic drama set against the Cuban Revolution. She plays Roberta, a woman from the States who's married to a Cuban, but meets Redford in Cuba and gets him involved in the revolution. "I'm very excited about it," she says. But what did she think when she met Redford for the first time? "He seems very serious about what he does," she says. And that's Lena Olin's kind of actor.

(Kenneth M. Chanko writes frequently about the movies.) Mi of people has been destroyed. She struggles very hard; she has a very profound will to stay alive, and she wants to enjoy life. But considering what's happened to her, it's tough. So when she tries to be happy, it's too much for her she's always haunted by this destructive side, which comes from the concentration camp." Olin who was born, raised and still lives in Stockholm took an unusual approach in playing a Holocaust survivor.

While she LIN WHO IS MAR-ried but separated from her Swedish hus 1 band and has a four-year-old son, named August adds, "I'm not a social person. I don't have very many friends." So, she's happy to be back LOVE STORY: Ron Silver, Lena Olin in "Enemies.".