CASTING AROUND

Valerie Perrine and Brenda Vaccaro are two clothes sellers who get in the business at the insistence of their husbands (who are brothers) in the MGM pilot sitcom “A New Leaf.” . . . Kim Novak plays two characters, one of whom thinks she’s Kim Novak, in the CBS movie “Moon Dreamer,” set for Big Sur in August. . . . Emma Samms portrays a rock star with green lipstick and green hair who (surprise!) is Stacy Keach’s long-lost daughter in “The New Mike Hammer.” Vanity plays a groupie of a punk band in the same episode. . . . Peter Coyote is a high school teacher who has affairs with four women consecutively, including teacher Stockard Channing, who becomes a victim of love in the CBS miniseries “Echoes in the Darkness.” Joseph Wambaugh writes the teleplay based on his best-seller about bizarre real-life murders in Pennsylvania. Glenn Jordan directs two weeks hence in an undetermined location. . . . Jamie Lee Curtis is a medical student who breaks up with boyfriend Ray Liotta over the handling of his disturbed brother in “Dominick and Eugene,” which shoots in two weeks in Pittsburgh. . . . Additions for Alan Rudolph’s “The Moderns”: John Lone, Linda Fiorentino and Wallace Shawn.