Costa-Gavras to Be Feted by All-Star Cast : Marylouise Oates

The premiere of “Betrayed” on Tuesday night will be a top event for Leftside Chic.

Important entertainment industry names--long associated with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and other progressive and liberal causes--are featured on the invites for the benefit honoring director Constantin Costa-Gavras at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Jack Lemmon will do the honors, presenting Costa-Gavras with the Torch of Liberty Award, while the film’s star, Debra Winger, will introduce the actual premiere.

Acting as hosts: Barbra Streisand, producer Irwin Winkler, directors Stanley Kramer and Oliver Stone. Songwriter Alan Bergman is the premiere chair, while music-industry mogul Danny Goldberg is the ACLU’s chairman of the board and Norman Lear is the foundation’s president.

The committee includes director Sydney Pollack and his wife, Claire; Mark Rosenberg and Paula Weinstein; Peg Yorkin; Steve and Judith Krantz; Goldie Hawn; Don Henley; Fred Nicholas; Larry Sprenger; Laurie Ostrow; Alan and Dorothy Jonas, and George and Eve Slaff.

Costa-Gavras--whose films include “Z,” “Missing” and “State of Siege”--is being honored for the “skillful use of his craft in educating audiences about the human values essential to a just and free society.”

CHANGE TEMPO--Tired of politics? How about a little opera?

The Los Angeles Music Center Opera (that’s a title as long as some third acts) opens Oct. 7 with “Tales of Hoffman” and a party that takes its Venetian theme from the opera’s fourth act.

“It’s going to look like Venice,” promised Carol Henry, the evening’s chair, who, along with her committee, is in the last steps of choosing the caterer and florist for the extravaganza.

The rest of the details are tied down, she said, explaining that guests will go from the Music Center, across Grand Avenue into the Los Angeles Mall. Seated into a triple-peaked tent, “Venetian,” created by Regal Rents, party-goers will be able to look up through a clear plastic ceiling to the October skies.

The opening-night performance and the party are underwritten by Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. The expected $500,000 proceeds from the $600-a-person gala will go to make up the almost $4 million set to be raised from direct fund-raising activities and grants. More than $6 million in earned income will come in this year, LAMCO’s general director Peter Hemmings said, while $2 million will come from the Music Center’s Unified Fund.

Putting together the evening is a committee, which includes Hannah Carter, Marta Domingo (Placido’s wife), Sandra Ausman, Georgianna Erskin, Louis Gossett Jr., Peggy Parker, Mark Foster, Helen Stathatos, Joan Thompson, Phyllis Sandifer and that opera expert herself, Dorothy Kirsten French.

TOO LATE--To get tickets, that is, for the Sept. 10 City of Hope benefit honoring Christie Hefner, at, where else, the Playboy Mansion West. The already sold-out black-tie gala will benefit AIDS research, with proceeds from the $200 tickets going to the Christie Hefner AIDS Research Fellowship.

Advertising exec Adrienne Hall and film producer Sherry Lansing are honorary co-chairs of the party, sponsored by the City of Hope Bucky Oliff and PAC Chapters. Morgan Fairchild does the emceeing at the event.

CONVENTION FOLLOW-UP--That convention twosome, Loews Hotels president Robert Tisch (the former postmaster general) and Bob Guiliano, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union legislative director, were first sighted in Atlanta at the Democratic Convention. And, in Atlanta last week, they could be seen making the top party rounds. That’s why Tisch didn’t make the “power lunch” topping-off ceremony at the new Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, which allowed brand-name industry types to have a midweek beach party. One attendee reports that a “Loews Wall of Fame” lets VIPs sign in, some with minor advertisements-for-themselves: like “Jacques Camus, now with the Westwood Marquis, formerly with Loews Regency in New York.”

STAR AUDIENCE--With all proceeds for the special performance of “Les Miserables” going to the Actors’ Fund, no wonder so many stars are set for tonight’s audience. If you can tear your eyes away from the stage, look for Laurence Luckinbill and Lucie Arnaz, Dorothy McGuire, Lana Turner, Sandy Duncan, Fay Wray, Margaret O’Brien, Teri Garr, Orson Bean and Lynn Redgrave.