A look inside Hollywood and the movies. : THE POLITICAL DEPT. II : See, This Is Like a Bonus Night: Bill Clinton AND Barbra Streisand

Hollywood’s “cultural elite” is turning out en masse for a Democratic Party fund-raiser, scooping up all the $1,000 and $2,500 tickets--even before invitations were sent out. A chance to glimpse Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, admits the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee, which is organizing the Sept. 16 event, is only part of the draw. Equally enticing: the notoriously stage-shy Barbra Streisand, who will be giving her first public concert since the “One Voice” benefit held at her Malibu ranch in 1986.

“People see this benefit as a way of helping things along--and getting a great night out of it in the bargain,” says Margery Tabankin, executive director of the HWPC, an 8-year-old political action committee.

Tickets are reasonably priced by Hollywood standards--well under the $10,000 per couple Democratic fund-raiser hosted by MCA Chairman Lew Wasserman a few weeks back. Guests will be handed picnic baskets containing gourmet goodies and dine on producer Ted Field’s Green Acres lawn. Gold Circle attendees--those with the higher-priced tickets--will get to meet Clinton.

Streisand will sing six or seven numbers. Mike Nichols and Elaine May are reuniting for the night. Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Geena Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Whoopi Goldberg, Louis Gossett Jr., Dionne Warwick, Elizabeth Pena, Christian Slater and Quincy Jones’ 15-year-old protege, Tevin Campbell, will round out the roster.

Rock impresario Ron Delsener is helping to oversee a closed-circuit satellite feed to nearly a dozen Clinton fund-raisers nationwide. Though an HBO special and music sales from Streisand’s “One Voice” concert brought in $6.8 million over and above the $1.2 million taken in at the gate six years ago, the challenge of getting clearances from the all-star talent roster and the overtly political nature of the material (“One Voice” was shot as an “entertainment special” to satisfy broadcast guidelines) precluded shooting a TV show or cutting a CD this time around.

The HWPC expects to raise $1 million at the door and an additional $500,000 to $1.5 million from the satellite feed, depending on the number of cities hooked up. Fifty percent of the monies will go to the Clinton-Gore ticket, 20% to the California Democratic Party, 15% to the HWPC, and 7.5% apiece to Senatorial candidates Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.

“This should be the schmoozerama of the year,” predicts public relations guru Josh Baran.