Hollywood to Turn Out for Democrats : Politics: The list of recognizable personalities is down from the ’70 or so’ at the national convention four years ago to ‘a couple of dozen’ expected this year.

No sooner is Gotham made safe from the Penguin than real Hollywood characters prepare to descend on the city--this time for the Democratic National Convention.

There’ll be the gaggle of filmland faces on hand.

Oliver Stone will be there as a delegate for former California Gov. Jerry Brown. The director of “JFK,” the movie that implicated the U.S. government in a conspiracy to cover up the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, apparently is not completely turned off to the political process--even if he is pledged to vote for a candidate who’s already lost the nomination to Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas. As far as unlikely sidekicks go, Stone’s fellow Brown delegate is Don Novello, better known to “Saturday Night Live” fans as Father Guido Sarducci.

In the category of Hollywood delegates for Clinton, there’s Arkansas native Mary Steenburgen, raised in North Little Rock and a pal of the sax-blowing politician and wife Hillary. Anti-AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser, wife of “Starsky and Hutch” co-star Paul Michael Glaser, will speak about the disease and vote for Clinton at the convention.

Overall, the convention list of recognizable Hollywood personalities is down from four years ago when Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis was the Democratic nominee.

Instead of the “70 or so” celebrities drawn to the quadrennial party in 1988, this year’s guesstimate is more like “a couple of dozen,” said Elizabeth Rogers, 27, who is coordinating Hollywood representation at the convention from her offices at Southern California’s Democratic headquarters in Hollywood.

Rogers was hired full time last month as Hollywood celebrity liaison for the convention, coming to the job after working several years in development at TriStar Pictures and Universal. She said her experience organizing the El Rescate fund-raisers for Central American refugees on Oscar night was good training for this event.

Among those expected to show up in New York next week are Chevy Chase, Linda Grey, Christine Lahti and Dennis Weaver. Richard Dreyfuss, a longtime insider in party circles, is hosting a reception for the California Democratic Party after a performance of “Death and the Maiden,” in which he co-stars with Gene Hackman and Glenn Close.

RSVPs from Hollywood’s newer generation of stars include environmental activist Ed Begley Jr., Central American refugee activist Esai Morales and abortion-rights activist Melanie Mayron.

Others expected are Jennifer Grey, Elizabeth Shue, Mario Van Peebles, Vincent Spano and Laura Dern, Holly Robinson and the Baldwin boys--Alec and Billy.

As for no-shows, actor Rob Lowe will not be attending. His videotaped activities four years ago at the convention in Atlanta drew the kind of headlines the Democrats would rather forget.