MOVIES - June 11, 1994

Gorbachev Joins Awards Circuit: Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual Environmental Media Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 17. Sponsored by the Environmental Media Assn., the awards honor films, TV shows and music that promote positive environmental messages. Gorbachev will represent Green Cross International, an environmental organization he founded last year. The awards will be broadcast on cable’s Turner Broadcasting System.

* Film Fest News: Tributes to Academy Award-winning actress Holly Hunter, actor-director Dennis Hopper, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven and independent filmmaker Henry Jaglom highlight the 1993 American Film Institute International Film Festival, which runs from June 24 to July 7 at Santa Monica’s Laemmle’s Monica Theatres. . . . “To Die For,” a British film featuring Sir Ian McKellan, will open the 12th annual Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, which runs from July 7-17. Other festival highlights include the L.A. premiere of the Canadian film “Boys of St. Vincent.” . . . Three Los Angeles filmmakers have been invited to Russia’s 1993 St. Petersburg International Film Festival later this month. Lori Fontanes will present her “Independence Day,” Mike Tollin will show “Hardwood Dreams” and Louis Venosta will show “The Coriolus Effect.”

TELEVISION

Reaching the Voters: Former Vice President Dan Quayle has been making the TV rounds lately to promote his book and revisit his campaign-year “Murphy Brown” debate over single motherhood. And if the response received from 150,000 viewers who called CBS after his appearance Wednesday on “America Tonight” is correct, Quayle has drawn many voters to his side. After a Quayle commentary saying that welfare mothers have additional children to receive more government money, 93% of callers to the program’s 900 number agreed with his position. And 83% said they would vote for Quayle for President.

* Family Stamp: ABC this fall will introduce a new on-air logo to designate programs “particularly enjoyable for family viewing.” The Family Viewing Logo will appear in place of the standard network logo, in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, at the beginning of each family-designated show and after each commercial break. Last year, the network started a hot line, (800) 213-6ABC, for information on parental or viewer-discretion advisories.

POP/ROCK

Legal File: Rapper Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes of the R&B; group TLC faces arson charges in a fire that gutted the Alpharetta, Ga., home of her boyfriend, Atlanta Falcon football player Andre Rison. Lopes, 22, is accused of setting fire to Rison’s two-story $861,000 mansion early Thursday after Rison returned from an all-night outing. Police said Lopes also slapped and cursed at Rison and smashed two Mercedes and a Toyota parked outside the home. No one was injured. Last year, Rison was arrested after allegedly hitting Lopes and firing a gun. The charges were dismissed.

* A Princely Project?: The pop star formerly known as Prince has caused a bit of a stir in Minneapolis, where he has bought a 107-year-old building formerly known as a porn palace. The building is sandwiched between a porn shop and a restaurant in the city’s warehouse district. He paid $185,000 for the four-story building, but there’s no word yet on what the plans are. The pop star already owns one nightclub in the neighborhood and there’s speculation that he’ll open a second.

THE ARTS

Black Museum to Reopen: Los Angeles’ Museum of African American Art reopens Sunday at the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Plaza shopping mall. The museum is housed on the third floor of Robinsons-May, which has been closed since the Northridge earthquake. The grand reopening exhibition is a show of monoprints and watercolors by Varnette P. Honeywood.

* ACLU Honors: “Guerrilla artist” Robbie Conal, “Life & Times” hosts Hugh Hewitt, Ruben Martinez and Patt Morrison, and KCRW’s Warren Olney will be honored Sunday afternoon at the American Civil Liberties Union’s 35th annual “Garden Party” at the Brentwood home of Betty and Stanley K. Sheinbaum. Other honorees are Laugh Factory founder Jamie Masada, “Enter Frederick Douglass” star William Marshall and singer Holly Near. Tickets are $25. Parking with shuttle service is provided at Paul Revere Junior High School in Brentwood.

QUICK TAKES

Actor and UCLA alumnus Corbin Bernsen receives the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Dean’s Award for Excellence tonight. . . . The “Lollapalooza” tour’s Cal State Dominguez Hills date has been pushed back a day: It will now be Sept. 4, with a Sept. 5 show almost certain to be added.