OPEN CASTING CALL FOR NOTRIOUS B.I.G. MOVIE..

The role of Notorious B.I.G. for an upcoming biopic on the rapper will be filled through an open casting call. Notorious, which has been in the works for nearly seven years, will seek its star by auditioning both actors and nonactors who resemble the rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace. Anyone can submit audition videos beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday to www.foxsearchlight.com/notorious or www.biggiecasting.com.. An official announcement of the online casting call is to be made today by Fox Searchlight Pictures, which in 2005 secured the rights to a film about the slain rapper. Wallace's mother, Voletta Wallace, and his two former managers, Wayne Barrow and Mark Pitts, are producing the movie. "As it relates to the individual Christopher Wallace — his looks, his stature, what he represented, the swagger, the sensibility of the man — all those elements are very difficult to find, no matter where you go," Barrow said Thursday. "In the typical Hollywood world, no one came to mind outside of Forest Whitaker who could capture that essence genuinely." Barrow said the film's producers never approached Whitaker because of his age. Whitaker is 46. Wallace was gunned down at the age of 24 on March 9, 1997, after a music-industry party in Los Angeles. Also Diddy on board as executive proudcer. ******************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: I THINK IT'S TIME TO TELL HIS STORY THIS SHOULD BE GOOD.