QUICK TAKES - April 1, 1996

In honor of April Fool’s Day, clowns from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s circus will clown around during a two-hour chat session this afternoon at 2 p.m. on America Online (keyword: Ringling). . . . Former “Cheers” stars George Wendt and John Ratzenberger have been ordered to pay $78,033 in legal fees incurred by defendants in the actors’ 1993 suit claiming robots at airport “Cheers” bars resembled their TV characters. The federal lawsuit was thrown out in January when a judge found that the animatronic figures looked nothing like Wendt and Ratzenberger.