LEAVE IT TO CLEAVER

Eldridge Cleaver hasn’t gone Hollywood--but he’s trying.

The 1960s socialist/militant/revolutionary Black Panther leader is looking for an agent to hustle a screenplay he’s written.

Reached in his old shooting grounds of Berkeley, where he’s busy writing a history of the ‘60s, Cleaver said he’s spun a serious drama about black militants, FBI counter-intelligence operations, political corruption, coke dealers and contemporary Middle Eastern terrorists.

“Demo Babies,” Cleaver says, has plenty of violence and sex and centers around the half-white/half-black daughter of a couple of 1960s militants and a ‘60s black militant who’s released from prison and tries to prove he was framed by the FBI. “A fat writer starts to put everything together and it all leads to political corruption,” says Cleaver, 50, who wouldn’t say how much he weighed but acknowledged that the character was based on himself.

Cleaver, who today is a converted Christian whose politics are strongly anticommunist and libertarian-leaning, was worried about providing too many details. The last screenplay he did “they took and I think I’ve seen it on the screen,” he said, declining to elaborate.