Godfather Knows Best About TV

--The daughter of late mobster Sam Giancana says she has been mistreated “by Hollywood rat finks.” Antoinette (Toni) Giancana’s book, “Mafia Princess,” is being made into a television movie and she is irate about not having a role. “They’re scum, like my father used to say,” Giancana, 50, said. Susan Lucci, a veteran of the daytime soap opera “All My Children,” will play Toni and Tony Curtis will portray her father when filming begins Sept. 6. Giancana says she was offered the role of an extra in a wedding scene “lost in the crowd somewhere, like a nobody. I’m no stooge. I’m no dummy. I’ve been in commercials.” She recently was in television commercials for the Star weekly newspaper. “My public wants to see me,” Giancana said. “I’m so appalled they would do this to me. I mean, in those emotional breakdown scenes with shock treatments, who could play that better than me? Who could play me at my wedding or my father’s wake better than me?”

--Among the 1,387 incoming freshmen at Brown University, the Providence, R. I., school, are the daughters of ex-President Jimmy Carter, former vice presidential candidate Geraldine A. Ferraro, actress Jane Fonda and Claus von Bulow, recently acquitted of trying to murder his heiress wife. Vanessa Vadim, Fonda’s daughter by director Roger Vadim, Laura Zaccaro, Ferraro’s offspring, Amy Carter and Cosima von Bulow will be costing their parents $16,100 each per year.

--John Lennon’s white Mercedes limousine has been withdrawn from a London auction of rock memorabilia because Supremes singer Mary Wilson contends it belongs to her, a London newspaper reported. Susu Robinson, a spokeswoman for Sotheby’s auction house, said the custom-built stretch limousine had been expected to bring $210,000. “The problem is a question of ownership,” she said, but refused to give details of the dispute. The Daily Express said the dispute is between Wilson and an American businessman, Nicholas Miranda.

--Philadelphia lawyer Harold E. Stassen, the perennial presidential candidate who has sought the Republican nomination every four years since 1948--with diminishing success--said in Washington that he will not be a contender in 1988. “I suppose Johnny Carson will be disappointed,” the 78-year-old one-time “boy governor” of Minnesota told a news conference. Stassen conceded he realized long ago that he had no serious chances of winning election to the White House. But he maintained that his repeated campaigns helped inject new ideas into the Republican Party. “I also learned that you can get more media attention by throwing a rock through the window,” he said.