CASTING AROUND

Paul Dooley plays an alleged pen pal who becomes the blind date of Betty White in the “Golden Girls” episode that taped last week. . . . Guitarist George Benson plays a blind musician who owns his own recording studio in Harlem and Isabel Sanford is an ex-employee with criminal connections in an upcoming “Mike Hammer.” . . . Michael Biehn, who went one-on-one with the terminator (in “Terminator”), is a frustrated prosecuting attorney who doles out his own punishment in “Rampage,” an action feature shooting next week in Stockton. . . . Lee Meriwether plays a fashion designer who’s the mistress of Gary Hudson on a six-part episode of the syndicated series “True Confessions.” In turn, his wife is played by Meriwether’s real-life daughter Kyle Aletter. . . . Raquel Welch is filming in New York a sequel to her 1985 exercise video for a February workout. . . . Burt Reynolds and Sophia Loren are discussing a teaming in Tennessee Williams’ play “The Rose Tattoo” to be shot for a cable network. . . . Alan Arkin and comedian Richard Lewis are in charge of hospital supplies in a Disney series for an ABC replacement slot. It’s called “Harry.” Director Barry Levinson begins filming here in December. . . . Our sources say that Eric Roberts and Giancarlo Giannini begin shooting the Hemdale action film “Blood Red” next month in Santa Cruz. . . . Billy Dee Williams plays himself as he drops in on the family of “227.” . . . “Head of the Class” stars Leslie Bega and Dan Fishman will appear in “Toy TV,” a live musical show at the Shrine Nov. 14-16. . . . Screenwriter Chris Columbus, who’s written two Steven Spielberg films, makes his directorial debut on “Adventures in Baby Sitting.” Debra Hill and Lynda Obst produce the Touchstone comedy featuring unknowns and shooting in Chicago Jan. 5.