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Thursday, April 29, 1993 DAILY NEWS i by LffiDA STASI with A.J.8ENZA and MICHAEL LEWTTTES It might blow really soon. We heard oil The Eton'fe that Mia has already had two meetings with Barbara Walters' for Babs' upcoming special. The Bo 'And iosti 11 pii Love Marriage fcrr.Iisch Party Less Than ffenry THE WAY HE WAS: Marvin Hamlisch refused to play the piano at his Country Club gig -Monday night unless all 200 patrons (most of whom were students from a course he teaches at the Learning Annex) stopped drinking and eating white he performed. He told a source it Even though Billy Baldwin and Kelly Lynch were in the same movie, "Three of Hearts," they have somewhat different views of the film's message of love. At the film party at the Russian Tea Room, Lynch told us: "Three of Hearts is all about love.

We don't remember when we had as good a time as we did at the Nederlander Theater the other night for Aretha Franklin's "Duets" special benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis. (It shows on Fox on May 9.) The Queen of Soul got really ticked off onstage at the crowd when they booed the Rev. Al Sharpton. "We don't do that to our Anyone can have sex, pay for it, find it, but love is amazing. Baldwin said, It shows in the '90s that you gotta take love any way you can get it" Somehow, love sounds less amazing out of Baldwin's lips.

And as for Baldwin's love life, he came with girlfriend Chynna Phillips. When the subject of marriage came up, Chynna said, "Hopefully. Tell me what he says." Well, we haven't really done this since sixth grade, but Chynna, Billy tells us that he's "totally in love" we pre couple of months and this is the first time they're in public as a couple." (Oh. Now we know how Fox was always able to get the exclusive video tapes of Dylan.) Bergman's disclosure, we understand, frightened Tannenbaum, who is near the end of a long divorce battle of his own. Tannenbaum didn't return calls yesterday, but a source told us that he and Mia have decided to "lay low for a few days and see if it blows over." guests," she scolded the crowd.

But backstage, where we were, she got more specific: "They gotta be kidding me, treating a man like him like that. What kind of is that?" Next we watched Robert De Niro nervously muttering to himself about the prospect of a sing-along finale he was asked to sing along in. Although he looked very confident, crooning and clapping next to Bonnie Raitt, he said to someone before he went on: "If I reminded him of his early career, and he's "beyond" that now. Maybe some of us are not beyond drinking heavily at the first sound of a Hamlisch tune MARLON'S sume it's with you and that marriage "would be nice. Somehow, marriage MUSINGS: In Sunday's N.Y.Live, Matthew Broderick reminisces about "The Freshman" and talks sounds a lot less amazing out of Baldwin's mouth.

Taking The Rap In- gotta sing, I'll sing. I'm not crazy about it, but what am I gonna do?" Run. We loved it when Franklin, Gloria Estefan and Raitt brought down the house with "Natural Woman." And speaking of natural woman, it was quite something backstage as Aretha pushed, packed and shoved everything that needed to be shoved back into her infamous beaded a 1 most-bustier. She should have shoved a little harder because she popped out of it onstage during "This Old Heart of Mine," with Rod Stewart. Not that she didn't laugh it off.

Not that Fox will ever show it. Not that "Swan Lake" will ever seem the same to us again. All the guests at the Nederlander Theater 7- Sir 1 Michael Jackson might be very surprised to see that he's about to get really rapped in a $76 million lawsuit brought against him by the guys who are trying to produce "Beatle Rap." Several weeks ago, we told you that Jay Bildstein and Eric Klopper were putting together a project using Beatles music and top rappers? Then we called Jackson's office; he basically said "that's what they think!" Since Jackson owns the Lennon-McCartney songs and his company had earlier signed off on a letter of agreement, it seemed kind of odd. Like everything pertaining to Jackson is normal? STEWART about what it was like to work rushed to the party at the Hard Rock afterward. Everyone except Aretha, with the legendary Marion Brando.

The writer didn't include her bustier, and 150 of her nearest and dearest friends, who all went to this gem. Broderick said Brando kept wondering aloud how Hitler Jezebel instead. got so powerful and "how twins separated at birth could grow up Mia's flew Man and be the same." Raising these If you didn't want the questions is easy when you have your very own Tahitian island and world to know you're in love with someone, would live only for food ROD RON i CLUB: Rod Stewart is packing as much as he possibly can into a RICHARD COftKERY DAILY NEWS you visit a trendy downtown nightclub and hold that person's hand all night long? We doubt it. But that's exactly what Aretha Franklin at Nederlander Theater. couple of days.

First and foremost, he's promoting his "MTV Unplugged" performance. Then there was the Aretha FrankHn gig, and tonight he'll guest on Mia Farrow did Tuesday when she showed for a fund-raiser for Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes (no he's not the one!) at Infinity with matrimoni Anyway, legally, anyone is free to do a cover version of a Beatles song, (and then pay Jackson the royalties). It's just that when you do a derivation of a song, (changing it) you need permission. Really? Then why doesn't Jackson sue The Boston Pops? Talk about derivations! We don't know The Beatles or anything, but you gotta figure they never intended an instrumental version of "Revolution" to play your dentist's waiting room. Anyway Klopper and Bildstein figure $76 million is a good sum for what they claim is breach of contract, ($37.5 mil), loss of reputation ($37.5 mil) and damages ($1 mil).

'Late Night with David Letterman." And don't be surprised if Rolling Stoner Ron 1 i i .411 I ri al lawyer Richard Tannenbaum. Sources told us it was Wood joins Stewart when he performs material from his soon-to-be-released album, "MTV the first time Mia and Tannenbaum had been seen publicly, although seated." Huh? So what do Ron Rod have in Tannenbaum's friend Fox producer Marty Bergman told Daily common besides the belief that women over 17 are over the hill? Newser Karen Hunter- played together in a group Hodge that he intro called Faces when George Bums was still a boy. JOHN ROCA DAILY NEWS duced them and that they've "been dating for a Mia Farrow with new companion Richard.