March 21, 1993

Obituaries for Hollywood luminaries usually limn octogenarian actresses and septuagenarian directors. But Mark Rosenberg's was different. A movie producer and Hollywood fixture, Mr. Rosenberg died of heart failure last November on the set of "Flesh and Blood," which was being shot near Odessa, Tex. Mr. Rosenberg led a rich, full life, complete with adventure, action and hit films like "Risky Business," "The World According to Garp," "The Killing Fields" and "Presumed Innocent."

Reeling from a season of turmoil, and struggling to qualify for the playoffs, the Rangers received another jolt yesterday when they learned that Brian Leetch had broken a bone in his right ankle in a freak accident. It's likely that Leetch will miss the rest of the regular season and won't be available until deep into the playoffs, assuming of course that the Rangers are still playing.

UNDER A NEW SKY A Reunion With Russia. By Olga Andreyev Carlisle. 248 pp. New York: Ticknor & Fields. $21.95.

With one foot in the world of tradition and one in the modern marketplace, the American Booksellers Association has something of a dual personality. By year's end, it will have a headquarters to match, on a 10-acre property at South Broadway and Sunnyside Lane in Tarrytown, N.Y. On the site is a two-story, 29,000-square-foot office building that was constructed in the mid-50's as the headquarters of the World Publishing Company. There is also the 139-year-old Peter Moller home, a 12,000-square-foot Gothic Revival structure built of stone quarried from the site. And there is a carriage house.

ON a recent cold and snowy Saturday morning in Great Neck, worshipers filled every seat in the Iranian Jewish Center on Steamboat Road. A young couple was to be blessed a week before their wedding. As the couple walked to the front of the sanctuary, worshipers threw small pieces of wrapped candy at them, and in high-pitched voices resembling bird calls, women jubilantly sang, "Lee-lee-lee-lee!"