Gets You Where You Live: Big G Plays & Does His Part

Anwan "Big G" Glover made the unlikely leaps from Columbia Heights street tough to go-go star to actor (on the cult HBO series "The Wire"), and this week he took another: to network TV, baby! -- and a guest role on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."

Where does he want to go next? "The big screen," Big G told us at his viewing party at H20 nightclub. "My dream project is to work with Sidney Poitier. Every young actor says Denzel [Washington], but I grew up watching Sidney Poitier. He could be a grandfather character to me."

Glover's small but vivid role on Tuesday's episode of "L&O: SVU" -- as Jimmy Mac, "an enforcer, an extortion artist, a pimp, you name it" -- was cause for some major civic pride. Mayor Adrian Fenty stopped by the party with a proclamation, and D.C. Council members Kwame Brown and Yvette Alexander praised his work as a mediator in street disputes and an anti-violence activist -- a role that took on greater urgency this summer when Glover's younger brother Tayon was shot to death in their old neighborhood.

"It takes a real bold person to come from the streets and do what he's done. Most people are just chasing the money, but he's not like that," said Ronald Moten, co-founder of the D.C. mediation group Peaceoholics, which showed off a public-service announcement Glover made titled "What's Snitching and What's Not." (Message: It's okay to call the cops.)

Glover -- 6 feet 6, with a voice you feel in the soles of your shoes -- told us he talked Hollywood with "L&O" co-star Ice-T. "He told me a lot about the game. . . . January is pilot season; I'm gonna go out to L.A. and make it happen." Will he be back for "The Wire's" fifth and final season? Oh yes. "I can't say too much about it, but it's gonna be nothing like 'The Sopranos.' You gotta go out with a bang."

They Wouldn't Get Him Rewrite, So Brad Bails on Newsman Role

Brad Pitt doesn't want to play a Washington reporter after all. Universal Pictures announced that the blond half of Brangelina has dropped out of the Beltway-based political drama "State of Play."

Pitt abruptly quit early yesterday after two weeks of battling director Kevin Macdonald ("Last King of Scotland") over the script, sources say. Filming was scheduled to start last week, and an elaborate newsroom set was completed when Pitt pulled a very expensive plug.

It was just two months ago that the international heartthrob brought our newsroom to a standstill while researching his role as a journalist covering the murder of a young political staffer. Pitt got tips from our colleagues, including editors R.B. Brenner and Phil Bennett, and reporters Josh White and James Grimaldi (Pitt's frat brother at the University of Missouri) and caused gridlock among hard-nosed news veterans panting for a glimpse.

Guess he's just not that into us. With the rest of the cast (Ed Norton, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams) ready to start shooting, the movie is in trouble if producers can't find a replacement for Pitt pronto. Lucky for them, Hollywood writers' strike postponements have suddenly freed up A-listers like Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Johnny Depp and Russell Crowe. If the film can't be recast in time, Pitt faces a lawsuit from the studio.

THIS JUST IN . . .

Jan Adams, the doctor who operated on Kayne West's mother before she died, abruptly walked off " Larry King Live" Tuesday night a few minutes into the interview. On the air, Adams said the singer's family didn't want him to discuss Donda West's death; King said family members warned Adams they would ask the Medical Board of California to decertify him if he talked about the case. The plastic surgeon told the Los Angeles Times this week that nothing went wrong during the breast reduction, tummy tuck and liposuction operation. West was buried Tuesday; autopsy results are expected in four to six weeks.

Danny Federici, an original member of the E Street Band, is taking a leave from Bruce Springsteen's tour for treatment of melanoma. Federici, 57, has been playing keyboards with The Boss for 40 years, and has been playing on the current tour for two months.

The newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid were reportedly given an accidental overdose of blood thinner, according to TMZ.com. The baby girl and boy, born Nov. 8, received a dose 1,000 times stronger than prescribed. L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center confirmed the incident but not the identity of the patients, and said tests indicated no adverse effects.