CASTING AROUND

Robert Loggia plays defense counselor William Kunstler, David Opatashu the judge, Michael Lembeck Abby Hoffman, Carl Lumbly Bobby Seale and Peter Boyle Dave Dellenger in “The Chicago Conspiracy Trial,” an HBO film now shooting in Glendale. It centers on the famous trial of the Chicago 8 Vietnam War protesters who disrupted the 1968 Democratic Convention. . . . Mr. T stars as a ghetto lawyer in a half-hour action-adventure syndicated series for Hal Roach Studios entitled “T & T,” which shoots in Toronto this spring. . . . Todd Waring will reprise the role of a Chicago ad executive in the NBC pilot of last year’s hit film “Nothing in Common,” to be shot in L.A. next month. . . . Garry Marshall will direct a comedy about an amnesia victim starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell to be filmed in April in L.A. . . . Boxing promoter Don King will host “Solid Gold” in a segment to be shot in L.A. next week--and promises not to sing. . . . Robert Loggia, Bette Midler and Billy Joel are the voices of dogs in an animated canine Disney film of the Dickens tale “Oliver Twist.” . . . The raucous Wendy O. Williams plays a gangster’s girlfriend in Fox TV’s new sitcom, “Beans Baxter” . . . Martin Balsam is a private investigator who attempts to protect his daughter (played by real-life daughter Talia) from a crazed killer who’s after her boyfriend in “Private Investigations,” a feature shooting in Simi Valley.