THE BUZZ.

Byline: Staff and Wire Services

Big attendance for Rivera: Viva la Revolucion! That is, ``Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution,'' the just-closed exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which announced total attendance of 181,046 for the show during its 11-week run.

That makes the exhibition, which focused on the Mexican artist's seminal early career in Europe, LACMA's third most-attended show in the past eight years. The only museum exhibitions with greater attendance during that period were last fall's ``Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art,'' which drew 243,000 over four months, and ``Van Gogh's Van Goghs,'' which attracted 821,004 between Jan. 17 and May 16.

By prior contractual arrangement, ``Art and Revolution'' has moved on to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where it will officially open in September. In December, it will wind up its tour at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

Audible excitement: With the help of TheatreVision, even the visually impaired can experience the excitement of a pod race or a lightsaber battle in this summer's blockbuster, ``Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.''

Special earpiece receivers will provide an audio description of the movie by ``Star Wars'' star Samuel L. Jackson.

TheatreVision was launched by RP International in 1994 and has described more than 40 movies, TV programs and live events since then with the help of major studios and stars of movies and television.

The TheatreVision showing is at 9:45 a.m. Sunday at the AMC Promenade 16 Theatre in Woodland Hills. Tickets are $4.50. Bring an ID and ask at the box office to get a receiver. For information, call [phone].

La Salle buys script: ``ER'' star Eriq La Salle has acquired the screenplay ``Winner's Out,'' which La Salle plans to direct next year while on hiatus from the NBC drama. ``Winner's Out'' is described as a modern-day ``Brian's Song'' set in the National Basketball Association. The story revolves around a black man and a white man who befriend each other at a free-agent basketball camp as they pursue their hoop dreams. The film chronicles the lives of both men and their friendship, which is tested when one becomes successful and the other doesn't. La Salle recently re-upped his ``ER'' contract with Warner Bros. Television for the next three years. Feature credits include ``Psalms From the Underground,'' ``Jacob's Ladder'' and ``Coming to America.''

Hot off the presses: Proving that synergy is alive and well, Miramax Films confirmed that it has optioned a non-fiction article from the debut issue of company-backed Talk magazine. Miramax will develop Mark Ross' ``The Last Safari,'' the first-person account of Hutu rebels kidnapping a group of 16 tourists in the Ugandan jungle in March. The rebels marched the group toward the border of the Congo, killing eight along the way. This is the first film project to be developed from Talk, the Tina Brown-edited monthly conceived as a pipeline for stories to be developed for film and television. Ross is a photographer, naturalist and tour guide living in Kenya.