FOR Paul Mercurio, it's Strictly Success - all the way to Hollywood. Mercurio, the Strictly Ballroom star who turns 30 next week, has been offered the starring role in a new US film based on the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table [probably First Knight--cc], says to a Sydney newspaper. The film to be directed by Jerry Zucker, who made Ghost, is yet another offer the dancing actor is considering. Others include co-starring with Meryl Streep in a movie version of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods [probably The River Wild--cc] and an invitation to star in a TV special with Bette Midler.
     ``They want me to sing in that . . . I think I will take some singing lessons and see what happens,'' Mercurio said from Ballarat, where he is in the middle of a Victorian provincial tour with his dance company ACE. At sold-out performances everywhere they go, the first few rows of seats are invariably filled with female fans. A US entrepreneur is negotiating to take Mercurio's Australian Choreographic Ensemble on tour across the US.
     ``Yes, the offers are there,'' Mercurio said. There were scripts for four movies . . . but he's not making any decisions until he talks to his US agent next month.
     But fame has its drawbacks. ``I miss my wife and my girls,'' he said. Mercurio and his wife, Andrea, have two daughters, Elise, 3, and Emily, 16 months.