POP/ROCK - May 13, 1994

Baby Due: Country star Wynonna Judd is expecting her first child on New Year’s Day. Judd, 30, is not planning to marry the baby’s father, 39-year-old Nashville businessman Arch Kelley III, whom she has been dating since August. “I celebrate this,” she said, noting that the pregnancy was not planned. “Abortion is not an option for me. . . . I want to take care of this child.” So Judd said she will cancel all concert dates after Labor Day. She will return to work in June to record an MCA album and will resume touring after the album’s release.

* Tupac’s Legal File: Atlanta police officer Scott Whitwell, who suffered a shotgun blast to the buttocks in an Atlanta altercation that involved rapper Tupac Shakur, has sued the singer for $10 million. “The facts will show that our client, who was unarmed . . . was running for (his life) when Tupac Shakur opened fire,” Whitwell’s attorney said. The incident prompted criminal aggravated assault charges against both Shakur and Scott Whitwell’s brother, Mark, who is also a police officer. Shakur’s attorney declined comment Thursday saying he had not seen a copy of the civil lawsuit. Shakur has several other court cases pending, and on Tuesday began serving a 15-day jail sentence for an L.A. assault conviction.

* Suit Settled: A judge has accepted a settlement in an antitrust lawsuit against ticket sellers BASS and Ticketmaster, despite the objections of consumers groups, who say the settlement does not help Californians who they say paid inflated prices. The ticket sellers will give $1.5-million worth of tickets to charity groups, but the settlement doesn’t put a limit on what they can charge.

TELEVISION

CBS Denies Menendez Plea: CBS cited First Amendment rights in turning down a written plea this week from Lyle and Erik Menendez’s attorneys not to air a May 22 and 24 miniseries about the brothers in Los Angeles while their criminal trial is still pending. The attorneys, who unsuccessfully sought an injunction to stop Fox’s Menendez movie, say they won’t take the matter to court this time, although they believe that “Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills” takes a pro-prosecution point of view and will make it impossible for them to select an unbiased jury when the brothers are retried for the murders of their wealthy parents next year. CBS maintains that its miniseries is objective. . . . Meanwhile, KFI-AM (640) talk-show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou are holding a yard sale Saturday to raise money for the District Attorney’s prosecution of the Menendez brothers. It takes place from 9 a.m. to noon at Insight Shooting Range in Artesia.

STAGE

As If We Never Said Hello: Forget about seeing Glenn Close singing “As If We Never Said Goodbye,” from “Sunset Boulevard,” on the Tony Awards telecast June 12. The “Sunset” producers have decided “to preserve the uniqueness of their Broadway premiere in November,” by not giving away a taste of the show for free in June. Close will still present a Tony live from the Shubert stage, before donning her Norma Desmond costume to begin that evening’s performance of “Sunset.” A live number from “Show Boat” in Toronto will replace the “Sunset” number.

* The Word on ‘Grease’: Most of the reviews of the Broadway bow of the Tommy Tune-supervised revival of “Grease” weren’t encouraging. Ben Brantley of the New York Times thought its “rudimentary story line, characterizations and affectionate spoof songs are nearly lost amid the clumsy spectacle and high-decibel orchestrations.” Linda Winer-Bernheimer of Newsday called it “a charmless assault.” David Patrick Stearns of USA Today said it was like “a hot, candy-colored Thunderbird that keeps stalling at stoplights.”

ART

Klimt Highlights Auction: A tense two-way bidding war at Sotheby’s auction house in New York Wednesday more than doubled the previous sale record for Austrian Expressionist Gustav Klimt, helping to raise the gloomy mood that had set in following a disastrous sale at rival auction house Christie’s the night before. Klimt’s 1917-18 portrait “Lady With a Fan” sold for $11.6 million, far above Sotheby’s pre-sale estimate. The previous record for a Klimt, $5.5 million, was set in 1987. Overall, Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and modern works was still lackluster, however. Only 50 of the 69 lots sold.

QUICK TAKES

Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry (“Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment”) and writing partner Diana Ossana have agreed to write the screenplay for a Universal film version of “Father Knows Best.” The Robert Young series began on radio in 1949 then moved to TV from 1954-60. . . . “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Gabrielle Carteris gave birth Wednesday night to a daughter, Kelsey Rose, at a Los Angeles hospital. Carteris’ “90210” character, Andrea, gives birth on the Fox show’s May 25 season finale. . . . Gene Kelly, 81, was released from a San Francisco hospital on Tuesday after nine days of treatment for cellulitis, a bacterial skin infection.