CASTING AROUND

Frank Sinatra is reading a “Magnum P.I.” script written especially for him. Should he accept, he’d play a retired cop who’s the uncle of series regular Larry Manetti. . . . Jeffrey Jones proves there’s life or at least a career after “Howard the Duck.” He joins Michael Moriarty and Paul LeMat in the Vietnam War drama, “Hanoi Hilton,” now shooting in town. . . . Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs faces college graduation with buddies DeDee Pfeiffer and Joan Cusack in a rites-of-passage comedy “Cutting Loose.” . . . Linda Kelsey and James Whitmore Jr. are a married couple who return to the ‘60s and re-enact their youth in an upcoming episode of “Twilight Zone.” . . . Rick Moranis and Dom DeLuise join Mel Brooks in his sci-fi spoof “Space Balls.” . . . Jose Ferrer is a Mafia Don who’s prosecuted by D.A. William Conrad in a two-part episode of the Andy Griffith series “Matlock.” . . . Albert Brooks co-stars with William Hurt in screenwriter-director James Brooks new untitled film about the media. . . . Burt Reynolds stars in his first TV special next season. The hour comedy show will focus on mid-life coping. . . . David Wayne replaces the late Murray Hamiliton as the father of Rue McClanahan in an upcoming episode of “Golden Girls.” . . . Robert Carradine is an abolitionist who teams with an ex-slave to become “The Liberators,” a Disney TV movie filming next week in Ottawa.