VIDEOWhat’s Up, Pete?: Animation director Chuck Jones...

VIDEO

What’s Up, Pete?: Animation director Chuck Jones and “Bugs Bunny on Broadway” creator George Daugherty are combining forces to produce an interactive animated version of Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.” Jones will supply designs for the characters; Daugherty will direct and co-write the script with Janis Diamond (“Sesame Street,” “Electric Company”). Kirstie Alley will provide the voices of the characters. “Peter and the Wolf” will enable children to interact directly with the characters, play a variety of computer/video-styled games and see mini-documentaries on Jones and composer Serge Prokofiev. A Time Warner Symphony Orchestra performance of the score will be released as an audio compact disc with the CD-ROM disc. IBM and Apple versions of the game will be out this Christmas, along with a related coffee table book.

LEGAL FILE

Not So Funny: A lawsuit filed by comedians Robert Shimmel and Carol Siskind last summer against management of the Los Angeles Improv comedy club has been expanded to include longtime Improv owner Budd Friedman and the Performers Workshop, from which Friedman received profit. The suit concerns two sets of cassette recordings, which the comics say contain their stand-up material and were recorded and distributed without their consent, and for which they were not paid any royalties. “We have learned that (Friedman) is directly and intimately involved in the recording,” said Ian Imrich, the comics’ attorney. Friedman could not be reached for comment. In addition, comics Susie Loucks and Nick DiPaulo have joined Shimmel and Siskind in the federal court case, which has been upped from $2.5 million to $5 million.

* Roseanne Wins Round: TV sitcom queen Roseanne and husband Tom Arnold won a preliminary injunction on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court that bars Stanley Warner and CelebSales from attempting to use their names for any purpose, including on a line of clothes specially designed for larger women. The suit also bars Warner from promoting a fashion show planned for Sunday in New York. The Arnolds claim Warner has not paid them $250,000 promised by December when they entered into an agreement to manufacture a line of clothing designed by the comedian.

ART

White House Beckons: Leslie Greene Bowman, head of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s decorative arts department, has received a presidential appointment to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. Along with a dozen other curators, historians and interior designers, Bowman will report to President Clinton and advise the Director of the National Park Service on the maintenance of the White House as a public monument and on its collection of 40,000 fine and decorative arts objects. Bowman has organized such LACMA exhibitions as “American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design.”

TELEVISION

On the Program: MTV remembers the late Kurt Cobain with replays of Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” appearance on Saturday at 11 a.m. and midnight and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., and with airings of the bands video’s Saturday at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m. . . . Noted Los Angeles artist and stage designer David Hockney will be profiled on Sunday’s “Visiting . . . With Huell Howser” airing at 5 p.m. on KCET Channel 28. . . . April 19 and 20 have been set for NBC’s “World War II: When Lions Roared,” the four-hour miniseries filmed for high-definition TV. It stars John Lithgow as Franklin D. Roosevelt; Bob Hoskins as Winston Churchill and Michael Caine as Joseph Stalin. The miniseries will be available on video just days after the NBC premiere.

RADIO

Howard Who?: Bad news for Howard Stern’s supposed gubernatorial aspirations. In a Quinnipiac College Poll of 584 New York state voters, of the 82% who had heard of the shock jock, 15% viewed him favorably, 70% unfavorably. By comparison, Democratic incumbent Mario Cuomo had a 41%-36% favorable-unfavorable ratio among the 97% of those familiar with him. The only good news for Stern: He was far better known than the four Republican candidates included in the poll. The survey was conducted between March 23-30 and has a margin of error of 4%. Stern said last month he would seek the Libertarian Party nomination for governor.

QUICK TAKES

Special effects wizard Stan Winston, who worked with Michael Jackson on “The Wiz” in 1978, said he is involved in the negotiations that may produce a film musical remake of the 1964 fantasy film “The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao,” starring Jackson. The 1964 original starred Tony Randall and was directed by George Pal. The remake would emphasize special effects. The rights are owned by Turner Pictures. . . . Singer Percy Sledge, best known for “When a Man Loves a Woman,” pleaded guilty to tax evasion for failing to report more than $200,000 in performance income. He admitted Thursday that he underpaid his 1987-88 taxes by more than $95,000.