Clinton Seen Poised to Collect Some Hollywood Cash : Campaign: Former fund-raisers for Harkin and Kerrey now say they will be dialing for dollars for Arkansas governor.

Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton has been easily winning the race to corral fund-raisers and influential supporters of Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, both of whom dropped out of the Democratic presidential contest earlier this month.

Clinton’s sweep of the Southern primaries that dominated this week’s Super Tuesday contests is expected to accelerate this trend. And Clinton appears poised to pick up more cash from California, including some of the Hollywood money that had been flowing to Kerrey.

Disney Channel President John Cooke, a Kerrey fund-raiser, has agreed to help Clinton, as has Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere, who was uncommitted in the race, their spokesmen have confirmed.

Also joining the Clinton bandwagon is former Fox Inc. Chairman Barry Diller, who has pledged to raise $25,000 for the candidate, according to Clinton finance chairman and former Democratic Party Treasurer Robert Farmer. Diller could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Clinton supporters also are courting Robert Burkett, a Westwood movie executive who raised $4 million for Kerrey. Burkett said he was busy retiring Kerrey’s campaign debt and plans to raise money for the Democratic National Committee. Beyond that, he said, “I’ll do whatever (Kerrey) wants me to do.”

Harry Thomason, a Clinton supporter and producer of the television shows “Designing Women” and “Evening Shade,” said: “I believe he’ll get most of the Kerrey money people (in Hollywood).”

On the East Coast, meanwhile, five former Harkin or Kerrey supporters who each raised $50,000 or more for their campaigns confirmed Wednesday that they would now be dialing for Clinton dollars. The new Clinton supporters include Alan Stagner, former head of the New York/New Jersey Port Authority, and Michael Kempner, owner of a New Jersey public relations firm.

Said Farmer, Clinton’s finance chairman: “In the last few days, people have seen the writing on the wall. And fund-raisers are knocking on our door.”

Even before Clinton’s Southern sweep--including a key victory in Florida--established him as the unquestioned front-runner in the Democratic race, his money-raising machine has been outpacing his rivals for months.

“They’ve raised a formidable amount of money,” said Nicholas A. Rizzo, finance chairman for former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas, one of Clinton’s two remaining rivals in the Democratic race.

Tsongas has picked up Nathan Landow, a former chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party who heads IMPAC, a group of 65 Democrats who in past campaigns have each raised at least $250,000 for a presidential candidate. Landow said Wednesday that about one-third of those fund-raisers have not yet committed to any candidate--and he hopes some will work for Tsongas.

But Tsongas clearly faces an uphill fight. In January, for instance, Clinton reported raising $1.6 million, while Tsongas took in $321,000. The third still-active candidate--former California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr.--raised $190,000 in January. As part of his campaign against the moneyed interests he contends control the political system, Brown accepts no contributions larger than $100.

By the end of this week, the Clinton campaign will have tapped more than 25,000 donors for $8 million, a sum that swells to $11 million when federal matching funds are included, campaign finance director Rahm Emanuel told a group of key fund-raisers in Chicago on Wednesday.

Emanuel and Farmer asked the donors to redouble their efforts to pay for the campaigns in Michigan and Illinois, which hold primaries on Tuesday. That includes recruiting former Harkin and Kerrey backers who have a long list of phone numbers.

Individuals may contribute no more than $1,000 to any presidential campaign, but they may give to more than one candidate. That means Harkin and Kerrey donors who are “maxed out”--campaign lingo for those who have already given the $1,000 maximum--can give another $1,000 to Clinton. Several of the former Harkin and Kerrey fund-raisers said they would ask their contributors to do just that.

“I’m interested in electing a Democrat, and if Gov. Clinton is more electable, then I’ll work for him,” said Stagner, who had raised $50,000 in New Jersey for Harkin.

“It’s looking like Clinton will be the nominee and people will want to be involved with the winner,” said Kempner, who had raised about $50,000 for Kerrey.