DOLE DOES HIS HOMEWORK FOR HOLLYWOOD II.

Byline: Tom Raum Associated Press 

Bob Dole, who took Hollywood to task in 1995 for corrupting moral values, is at it again. The GOP presidential candidate plans to give what he calls ``a sequel to last year's speech'' to the entertainment industry - but this time he'll talk about good films, too.

The Republican presidential candidate and his wife, Elizabeth, took in what they consider acceptable entertainment on Monday: the blockbuster thriller ``Independence Day,'' in which aliens blow the White House to smithereens.

``I liked it,'' Dole told reporters outside the Century Plaza Cineplex Odeon after the film. ``We won. The end. Leadership. Good over evil.''

``It's a good movie (to) bring your family to. . . . Diversity in America and leadership,'' Dole added of the film that has a PG-13 rating, for which parents are ``strongly cautioned'' that ``some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.''

He and Elizabeth Dole, who was celebrating her 60th birthday, saw the movie with former Reagan and Bush Cabinet member and author Bill Bennett.

Dole is scheduled to deliver a new installment of his speech today at 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles. Aides promised it would hit on ``the excesses of the entertainment industry,'' as well as accentuating the good the industry can do.

Earlier Monday, Dole stood in 100-degree heat at a lumber mill in Redding and blamed Clinton administration policies for the closing of some 140 lumber mills in California and the Pacific Northwest.

``You have been abandoned by this administration,'' Dole said at a rally in the rural northern California community.

``Protecting the environment's one thing. But we've got to have a balance between protecting jobs and family and the environment. In a Dole administration, we will make it work.''

Today, Dole will speak to a group of studio producers and executives.