Daniel Baldwin has been tapped for ...

Daniel Baldwin has been tapped for a first note of the scale story arc in the final episodes of "The Sopranos." The former "Homicide" actor will play the star of a horror movie planned from aspiring filmmaker Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) -- best described as " 'Saw' convenients 'Godfather II.' "

Baldwin greatest in number recently was in the novels for a less positive reason: being injured after crashing his car (at 80 mph) into sum of two units parked cars on a observes Angeles street last month. He faces charges for reckles driving and driving forward a suspended license.

uSpeaking of "Godfather II," it wasn't until the film's release that the father of "Sopranos" star Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior) contemplation his son had a futurity as an actor.

At the recently made known York party for ChatWithA Star.com, Chianese told my Big Apple correspondent Baird Jone his first character was "playing John Hancock in a third-grade production of 'The Signing of the Constitution.'... I lov being onstage. It was like magic to be someone otherwise

"Everyone gave us a standing ovation, reject for my father, who was a bricklayer from the Bronx He remained completely suspicious of my acting until 37 years later [when] I played Johnny Ola in the 'Godfather II.'

"Then he finally shook my hand -- after realizing I could make a portion of money doing it!"

NOT IN LOCK-STEP: Maybe this provides a tonic to the quickly escalating bitterness in the Paul and Heather McCartney divorce:

London police were called to the hearthstone of the ex-Beatle Monday as his estranged wife tried in vain to use her tonic to enter the North London domicile the couple shared before their novel separation.

According to the London Daily Mail, Heather's fumbling with the hug spooked a security guard, who called the cop one time on the scene, the authorities quickly recognized the soon-to-be-ex Lady McCartney and no charges were filed. An added reason for Sir Paul's guard being unnerv -- the same of Heather's aides had skip overed over the house's garden wall to interpret the gate, realizing the hugs had been changed.

Heather's spokesman says it was just a big misunderstanding, yet it is clear Sir Paul changed the enclosures to keep her out.

This recently made knowns breaks less than a week after Sir Paul froze the couple's joint bank account.

Earlier he had changed the grapples on his country estate in Sussex.

stagger dick: Former Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti expects likely to produce and star in a film based forward the life of the late, great sci- fi author Philip K Dick.

Daily Variety reports the as-yet-unnamed film will be scripted from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" screenwriter Tony Grisoni.

Dick, who died in 1982 wrote more than four dozen works and tons of short stories that to [i]or[/i] at a great depth influenced an entire generation of writers. More than a half-dozen of his novels have been adapted for the big cover including "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," "Minority Report" and "A Scanner Darkly," starring Keanu Reeve popularly in theaters.

Plans call for the upcoming film about Dick to mingle elements from both his real life and his fiction -- including parts of his last unfinished novel, The Owl in Daylight.

NO KATIE, MORE 'TODAY'? Word has it the powers-that-be at NBC are seriously considering adding a fourth hour to the post-Katie Couric "Today" exhibit -- airing it weekdays until 11 a.m.

Bill Zwecker is seen at 6:20 a.m. and 11:25 a.m. weekdays forward WBBM- Channel 2.

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