PEOPLE Are Talking About …

* A municipal judge in Santa Fe, NM, who has required people convicted of various offenses and sentenced to community service to wear colored hats to let other people know what they have done. Judge Frances Gallegos has required drunken drivers to wear pink hats and shoplifters to wear green hats for some time but recently added a few new colored hats for offenders. If you're convicted of domestic violence, you must wear a blue hat. Fail to clean up after your dog, you'll have to put on a brown hat while you pick up droppings.

* Retired basketball great Michael Jordan, who told a TV interviewer, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, that he doesn't believe that he should be No. 1 in ESPN's top athletes series and that he would vote for Muhammad Ali.

* How Twentieth Television got rid of "Forgive or Forget" host Mother Love only to replace her with actress Robin Givens for its second season to begin in January. "We thoroughly believe in the format of `Forgive or Forget,' which Mother Love as host had a very strong first year," said Rick Jacobson, president of Twentieth Television. "Unfortunately, success in television depends on the numbers and, as of late, the show appears to have reached a plateau," he said. "In order to remain competitive, we are taking the show in a new direction."

* When actress Rain Pryor, daughter of comedy great Richard Pryor, told Girlfriends magazine that she has found herself quickly becoming attractive to females due to her role on the Showtime TV series "Rude Awakening" where she plays a lesbian recovering from addiction: "If I were a gay woman, I'd have so many dates," she told the magazine. "I have more offers from gay women-or gay men wanting to be my friend-than I have from so-called breeders."

* Basketball star-actor Dennis Rodman's reason for his popularity, according to the Chicago Tribune: "What brought me to this point is a gift from God. I didn't know I'd be here. You don't have dreams growing up in the projects. You have desires."

* Celebrating birthdays this week are actor Ossie Davis, 82, and actor-director Tim Reid, 55, on Dec. 18; actress Cicely Tyson, 66, on Dec. 19; and singer Anita Baker, 42, on Dec. 20.