POP/ROCK - June 12, 1993

To Love Somebody: Michael Bolton will perform June 26 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center of Los Angeles to benefit the United Negro College Fund’s “Ladders of Hope” program. The Grammy-winning artist’s show will raise money to help send low-income minority students in Los Angeles to college. The program has already raised more than $1 million of its $5-million goal.

TELEVISION

Logo Logjam: ABC will be the first of the Big Three networks to display its logotype in the lower right corner of the screen during programming, joining a growing trend among cable and broadcast systems hoping to create brand identities. Starting next week, the semitransparent ABC circle will appear during all news programs, promotional spots and in the first five seconds after commercial breaks in entertainment shows. . . . In another marketing move, ABC will sell merchandise promoting its daytime soaps on cable’s QVC shopping channel on Saturday mornings beginning July 17.

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Jeremy Irony: The Bravo cable channel is billing next Saturday’s telecast of “The Dream,” based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” as an “American television premiere.” But the British production has in fact been shown here before--on Bravo. The one-man drama, starring Jeremy Irons, played in December--by accident, a Bravo spokeswoman says. She explained that the program was planned for telecast in December until executives decided they could give it a bigger promotional push this month. But someone down the line didn’t get the word and ran it one night anyway.

MOVIES

Comic Tragedy: The saga of Woody Allen, Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn--already covered in tabloids and on talk shows--comes out as a $3 comic book next week. He Said-She Said Comics previously chronicled the Amy Fisher-Joey Buttafuoco saga. The two-sided comic--one side tells Mia’s story, turn it over to get Woody’s version--is culled from court transcripts, TV appearances and newspaper articles. “It essentially wrote itself,” said Joe Mauro, the head of First Amendment Publishing.

STAGE

London Calling: Cellular phones are apparently behind the postponement of the London opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard,” based on Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film, from June 29 to July 12. The $4.6-million production fell two weeks behind because new radio-operated hydraulic valves--installed inside the Adelphi Theatre to move scenery around on stage--were susceptible to interference from “every cellular phone in London,” a spokesman said. Lloyd Webber said that despite the company’s “prodigious efforts around the clock,” it simply couldn’t catch up for lost time.

CASTING

Calling All Kids: In an open audition Monday at 4 p.m., five children, ages 4 to 9, will be selected as background vocalists for “Jerry Herman’s Broadway at the Bowl.” The kids will sing “We Need a Little Christmas” from the musical “Mame” for the Hollywood Bowl season opening on June 30, a salute to the Broadway composer and lyricist airing live on pay-per-view. . . . Meanwhile, the producers of a $25-million, live-action version of “The Jungle Book,” to be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures in honor of Rudyard Kipling’s 100th anniversary, are preparing to mount a worldwide search for the pivotal role of Mowgli.

ART

Free Art: A daylong festival of artists working to rebuild Los Angeles through cultural art is on tap Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Venice Pavilion, at Ocean Front Walk and Windward Avenue. Organized by Peter Sellars, arts director for the Los Angeles Festival, the free Venice Arts Mecca will feature performance art, live music, dance performances, guest speakers and visual arts projects. Low-cost child care will be available, along with free art classes, dance participation and work study opportunities.

QUICK TAKES

Pop star Michael Jackson will perform the theme song, “Will You Be There,” for the upcoming family film “Free Willy,” about a boy and a whale. . . . Representatives for former Milli Vanilli frontmen Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan denied media reports this week that the duo has broken up--although other sources said Friday that Morvan is currently in New York preparing to record a solo album. . . . The Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl will be broadcast live today from 2:30 to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 10:30 p.m. on KPCC-FM (89.3) in Pasadena.