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DAILY NEWS 11 Tuesday. May 13. 1986 A-Team may suit Tia to a Mr. Tia Carrere, who toils daily on the "General Hospital" soap in the role of Jade Soong, goes prime time for the first time tonight on the season finale of "The A-Team." Will she become a regular? The impression given is that she'll be back as the team's new member. Is Mr.

taking a walk? Hmmm. By PHIL ROURA TOM POSTER Boy, oh Boy! Brits say George will quit the Club I -J S. Jf0 J' i-i OY George and Culture OY George and Culture 0 splitsville, even tnougn tney appear to De navmg a LsLJ high ol' time in Hollywood filming a big Disney special that will air on NBC-TV Friday. The word from jolly old England is that things aren't quite as jolly as they seem. There are rumblings within the club.

The whisper in British rock circles is that Boy George and drummer John Moss are in a snit again. They've been there before, but it's getting worse. So look for George to split from the group this summer and go out on his own. A spokesman for the group said there was no plan for George to leave and pointed out that Culture Club's newest Epic album, "From Luxury to Heartaches," is soaring and the single, "Move Away," is No. 18 on the lists and going up.

"There are no problems," said the spokesman. "The boys are having a good time filming the Disney special." But Boy George was very definitely alone when he slipped i away to Boston this weekend to do a benefit with the Miami Sound Machine. He even sang the group's rocket "Bad Boy." Oh, yes. The Brits are also chattering that Boy George is about to change his name. Seems that since he has turned 24, i he is considering dropping the "Boy" bit and being known only as "George." Of course, he could always go back to being plain, simple George O'Dowd.

PavarottTs TagliacciV olr JOAN on a stroll in mldtown. MEL FINKELSTEIMOAILV NEWS Only a guest Joan Rivers and hubby Edgar Rosenberg did some guest TV shots yesterday but played it real cool during the AM shows. Edgar's great line was about Joan being so different off camera. In fact; at home she's like her mom whom he depicted as like the dowager in Marx Brothers flicks. Joan withheld any rap on Johnny Carson.

Club may be heading for Luciano Pavarotti Right now, Pav's in Paris for a Silver Jubilee concert On Sept he will mark his 25th anniversary here with Joan Sutherland at a concert in Madison Square Garden. Although Pavarotti has never performed live, he has recorded it Club may be 1 1 TIA CARRERE may be outfitted for camouflage outfits. rjHROUGIIOUT his 1 1 career, the great Luciano Pavarotti has always been compared to the great Enrico Caruso. Until now, though, Pavarotti has turned aside offers to do the one opera that's consistently associated with Caruso, Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci." Now Pavarotti has signed to do "Pagliacci" at the San Francisco Opera in the fall of 1988 and it will surely become one of the hottest tickets ever. Anywhere.

For the uninitiated, the opera contains one of the great arias, "Vesti la giubba," in which the clown Canio laments as to how he must go on with his performance although he has a heart, heavy over a lost love. "Since it will be his first time, he wants to try it and see if he likes it," said Pavar-otti's manager, Herbert Bres- lin. Will it come to New York? "Not for a long time," said Breslin. "Maybe in 1990. But who knows what any of us will be doing then?" mm i 4 High times with booze? Celebs recall the lows jHE Rev.

Jerry Falwell remembers his father 1 1 drunk on the floor using a pistol to shoot a fly. Gary Crosby recalls his disciplinarian father, Bing Crosby, and alcoholic mother, Dixie Lee, and that failing to become a football player made him a drunk. The tales are in "Courage to Change." Author Dennis Wholey, an alcoholic, says one third of our population is affected by drinking, a family disease. Other examples in the Warner paperback: Sid Caesar forgot his lines during a play in Canada and cried out, "Get me a doctor!" Rod Steiger's mother hid bottles of liquor around the house. Billy Carter, ex-President Jimmy Carter's brother, drank warm vodka for breakfast A former wife of Jason Robards' wheeled her baby carriage in and out of West side bars looking for her husband, who has TOW AKD CHER SHOW: Tom Cruise, makes his way through crowd of well-wishers last night at Loews Astor Plaza In Times Square for the premiere of his movie "Top Gun." Also on hand was co-star Val Kilmer, who showed up with Cher looking fabulous with her new hairstyle.

Cruise was a good boy the day after Mother's Day: he brought along his mother and 90-year-oW i grandmother. After the opening, the stars headed for dinner at America. wcwAm cohkikv oa.y news.