CASTING AROUND

At long last, Warren Beatty is finalizing plans to play comic-strip detective “Dick Tracy” (and may produce and direct), say sources close to Beatty. Set in the late ‘30s, it probably will shoot next spring. Beatty also wants to produce (but not star in) “Honeybear, I Love You” next year. It’s an offbeat comedy of middle-class manners involving a rowdy Korean War veteran who can’t cope in society. . . . Lloyd Bochner plans an actor who comes to Miami to work on a play and ends up flirting with all the “Golden Girls” in an upcoming seg. . . . Boxing promoter Don King gives his views of the spiritual afterlife in “Heaven,” a documentary directed by Diane Keaton. . . . Lee Van Cleef, Robert Forester and Johnny Crawford help the legendary William Tell from being killed by Jeremy Clyde (the pop singer from Chad & Jeremy) in “The Four Horsemen,” a made-for-cable movie now shooting in France. . . . Herb Alpert plays himself and asks policeman Dan Aykroyd to find his missing Tijuana Brass in the now-shooting movie “Dragnet ’87.” . . . Geraldine Fitzgerald is an ex-sweetheart of Norman Lloyd who rekindles her romance with the doctor when she checks into “St. Elsewhere” on an upcoming episode. She also stars in Arthur Miller’s new play “I Can’t Remember Anything,” to debuts on Broadway next month.