PEOPLE WATCHSounding Off: Roseanne, a woman with...

PEOPLE WATCH

Sounding Off: Roseanne, a woman with a flood-tide of opinions who’s never afraid to express them, has lit out against three prominent liberal superstars--Jodie Foster, Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep--saying they have little connection to the working-class women the feminist movement needs to target. They’re “just too middle-class white,” the comedian tells writer John Lahr in the July 17 issue of the New Yorker. “They’re all just upset about salaries, or something that feminism was about 25 years ago. They’re rewarded for making the women’s movement appear to be lost in time. And they don’t even know it.” She said they were “talented” but “deluded,” adding that “they are, in effect castrated females.” Speaking for Foster, publicist Pat Kingsley who represented Roseanne until recently, told The Times she was “surprised” by the remarks. “It just seems out of the blue,” she said, noting that “Jodie has never been one of those who talked about the differences in salaries between men and women.” There was no immediate comment from Streep’s publicist. Nancy Seltzer, spokeswoman for Susan Sarandon, who is vacationing with her family out of the country, commented: “One of the biggest challenges of women with power is not to get into cat fights.” Meanwhile, Roseanne will appear at the Comedy Store’s Belly Room Wednesday only, continuing her work-in-progress before a limited audience.

MOVIES

Dershowitz in the Lead: Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and Jane Pratt, founding editor of Sassy Magazine and a national authority on teen-agers, will lead the team appealing the NC-17 rating for the film “Kids,” Excalibur Films announced Monday. A hearing before the appeals board of the Motion Picture Assn. of America is set for Wednesday in Los Angeles. “The NC-17 rating is far too restrictive,” said Eamonn Bowles, Excalibur’s chief operating officer, who will also argue for the R rating. “It should be left up to the parents if they wish to bring teen-age children, not the MPAA.”

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Human Rights Watchables: The Sixth Annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival will be held Saturday through July 21 at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance. More than 25 films from 15 countries including Bulgaria, Chile, China, Lebanon, Poland, Russia and Venezuela will be featured at the event, the only film festival in the world devoted exclusively to human rights issues. The opening gala at 9 p.m. features the Southern California premiere of “The Promise,” directed by Margaretha von Trotta. Made in Germany, it’s a love story set in East and West Berlin from the beginning of the Cold War until the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

THEATER

‘Henry,’ the Successful: The Old Globe Theatre’s “Henry IV,” featuring John Goodman as Falstaff, is selling out faster than any production at the San Diego theater since the keeping of records began 15 years ago, according to Old Globe officials. Only a few scattered individual tickets and standing-room tickets remain available for the production, which plays through Aug. 5. “Henry IV” has sold more non-subscription tickets than any other outdoor show ever at the Old Globe, and it ranks third in total non-subscription ticket sales among all shows--indoor as well as outdoor--at the theater.

TELEVISION

‘Diagnosis’ Saved: “Diagnosis Murder,” the CBS series that had been presumed going off the air, has been revived. CBS ordered 13 hour episodes of the mystery series, starring Dick Van Dyke as the crime-solving Dr. Mark Sloan, for a 1995-96 midseason airing, it was announced Monday by Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman, whose independent companies jointly produce the series in association with Viacom Productions.

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‘Murder’ on Sunday: This fall, CBS will bump “Murder, She Wrote” from its long-running Sunday time slot to Thursdays at 8 p.m. But for those who watch TV by appointment, take heart. USA Network confirmed Monday that beginning Sept. 24, “Murder, She Wrote” reruns will be seen on the USA Network at 8 p.m. Reruns of the popular series will also continue on weeknights at 8, except on Thursdays.

QUICK TAKES

Pamela Anderson, star of the UPN hit “Baywatch” has had a miscarriage. The actress and husband Tommy Lee, the Motley Crue rocker, announced last month that they were expecting a child in February. “I can confirm she had a miscarriage,” her publicist Paul Nichols said Monday. Anderson, 27, who plays lifeguard C.J. Parker, and Lee, 32, were married in Mexico in February after a four-day courtship. . . . CNN’s Larry King will speak at the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Wednesday at a 1996 Issues Forum and will autograph copies of his just-released book, “The Best of Larry King Live: His Greatest Interviews,” from 1 to 2:30 p.m. . . . Richard Pryor returns to the Comedy Store’s Original Room today and Wednesday after last week’s SRO half-hour set.