WHOM DO YOU get to play Martin Luther King Jr. in a biopic?

No pressure or anything.

Paul Winfield played the reverend in the 1978 TV-miniseries, "King," Jeffrey Wright portrayed him in the 2001 TV-movie "Boycott" and Dexter King played his dad in the 2002 TV-movie, "The Rosa Parks Story."

But with word yesterday that DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg have acquired rights to the civil rights leader's life from the King Estate, a royal battle to find the right King is sure to develop.

Does the actor go for impersonation or mimickry? Try to look exactly like King, or look just enough like him.

And we thought Martin Scorsese was going to have a hard time casting Frank Sinatra. Schools don't close, at least not yet, on the birthday of "Ol' Blue Eyes."

"We hope that this will be the definitive film on his life and legacy," King Estate Chairman and CEO Dexter King said of the DreamWorks deal.

Like we said, no pressure.

So where do you go? Denzel already played Malcolm X. Will Smith did Ali (and we're not sure even Hollywood prosthetics could make Smith resemble King). Jamie Foxx's Ray Charles was so on-target could he do it again? What about Terrence Howard or Don Cheadle or one of the younger guns like Omar Epps, Mekhi Phifer or Morris Chestnut?

Not only will there be an acting challenge and a public relations challenge but familial squabbling could stall production of the film.

Dexter's siblings, Bernice King and Martin Luther King III, were not involved in negotiating the deal but they have been involved in several disputes regarding their parents' intellectual property in the past year. Bernice and MLK III have accused Dexter of tarnishing their parents' legacy with his business decisions, and say he has been operating the King Estate for years without their input.

DreamWorks spokeswoman Kristin Stark declined to say how much the deal is worth or when the movie might be made. Stark said she did not believe the siblings' legal differences would affect the project.

"What we have gained access to is the life rights, which is not what they are fighting about," Stark said, although World Entertainment News Network reported that DreamWorks also acquired the rights to King's intellectual property, such as speeches and books.

As for Tattle's choice to play King: Idris Elba.

If any readers come up with a great casting idea, we'll run it.

The bidding my friend . . . Bob Dylan was just 16 - and still going by his given name Bobby Zimmerman - when he wrote "Little Buddy" in the summer of 1957 for the newspaper at Herzl Camp, in Webster, Wis.

A camp with a newspaper? Now we have whole towns that don't have a newspaper.

The poem is being offered for sale at a Christie's auction, where it is expected to sell for $10,000 to $15,000 on June 23.

Fellow camper Lisa Heilicher, who was also editor of the Herzl Herald, has decided to sell the poem to help support the camp's $8 million capital campaign.

(It's a shame he didn't write 70 more poems.)

"I kept it with all of my stuff that I collected from camp," Heilicher said. "When I realized how famous he had become, I put it in a piece of plastic and stuck it in an encyclopedia" - under the letter 'Z' for Zimmerman.

Written on both sides of a single page, the poem tells the poignant story of Little Buddy, who is killed at the hands of a drunkard, and the boy who mourns him.

"He was such a lovely doggy/ And to me he was such fun/ But today as we played by the way/ A drunken man got mad at him/ Because he barked in joy/ He beat him and he's dying here today," the poem reads.

"It's a very early example of his brilliance," Simeon Lipman, Christie's pop culture specialist said.

Oooooooooookay.Several other pieces of Dylan writing are being offered including his 1958 yearbook from Hibbing (Minn.) high school, which is expected to bring $6,000 to $8,000. It contains a high school inscription to a classmate which says in part: "Dear Brenda, Well, I didn't see you too much this year but you know what went on in study hall was just kidding . . . ."

Ah, another early example of his brilliance.

Tattbits* Up-and-coming rapper Dolla (aka Roderick Anthony Burton II) was killed Monday afternoon in a shooting at the upscale Beverly Center shopping mall in L.A.

Police did not say what may have motivated the killing.

They did say that 23-year-old Aubrey Louis Berry, of Atlanta, was arrested hours later in a ticketing area of Los Angeles International Airport. He was believed to have dropped off a rental car before he was found, said airport police Sgt. Jim Holcomb.

"As the officers approached the suspect, they asked him 'Do you know why we're here?' " Holcomb told the Associated Press. "He put his (hands) up in the air and said 'Yes, I've got a gun in my waistband. Don't shoot me.' "

Airport police found a loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun and turned Berry over to Los Angeles police. Bail was set at $1 million. Dolla was a protege of hip-hop artist Akon.

* Billboard.com reports that veteran R&B singer-songwriter Al B. Sure! will release an album on June 23. "Honey I'm Home" is his first new studio project in over 15 years. The CD's first single "I Love It (Papi Aye Aye Aye)," is available on iTunes. If New Kids on the Block and Maxwell can return, why not? *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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