[Donna Mills] begins a three-week engagement Tuesday at the La Mirada Theatre in Christopher Hampton's award-winning drama, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Mills is playing Madame de Merteuil, a woman so evil she makes [Abby Ewing] look like Shirley Temple.

She soon may return to the grind of a weekly series. "We are in the process of making a deal with CBS," Mills says. "I want to do a half-hour comedy. They have an idea I think would just be perfect for a 10 p.m. romantic comedy, a la `Moonlighting,' which is tempting. If they come up with a wonderful script."

PHOTO: Donna Mills: "I want to do a comedy. . . . If they come up with a wonderful script."; PHOTO: [Richard Jeni]: "They can put up a cutout of me and people will pay 20 bucks a head."