Hollywood Exclusive by Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith

Mary Wilson, whose autobiographical books "Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme" and "Supreme Faith: Someday We'll Be Together" were both hits, is now dreaming up a third.

"I would like to do one more book, based on my layman's philosophies of life," says the sexagenarian songstress. She tells us she would like to focus on the questions, "What do you do after the dream has ended?" and "How can you find a road to contentment and be happy again?"

She had to find her own answers several times in a life filled with triumph and tragedy: "after the Supremes ended, after losing my son," she notes. She lost her teenage son, Raphael, in a 1994 automobile accident that also left her with serious injuries.

"The journey has been enlightening. I'd want to be sure to put it out there correctly," she says.

Wilson has been too busy to think much about writing in recent months. With her latest solo album on the way, she has been performing her jazz show in cabarets on both coasts and in between. She also has eight grandchildren to think about — three of whom live with her in Las Vegas. On top of that, there is "one of my biggest projects — my Supreme Gown exhibit, which was out on a two-year tour of six different museums throughout England, including London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Then it was at the Experience Music Project in Seattle for three months, ending in September. There are 50-some gowns, 'The Ed Sullivan Show' gowns and all that. I'm hoping to be able to tour the United States."

ONCE A MUNSTER...: With Halloween just around the corner, it's a busy time of year for Butch Patrick, the one-time "The Munsters" son who has now taken on the role of keeper of the flame for the goofy '60s sitcom that has shown a zombie-like refusal to die — some 44 years after ceasing production. Patrick, now 57, is making personal appearances at some 13 (of course!) commercial haunted houses.

He's prepping for his own Halloween bash — tickets on sale now — that'll feature his reunion with former "The Munsters" cousin Pat Priest in Pennsauken, N.J. And he's putting in the good word for the Hallmark Channel's "The Munsters" marathon all day Oct. 31.

"That was a good time in my life," says Patrick, who as a child divided his time between Hollywood soundstages and various ballparks where his father, major leaguer Ken Hunt (Angels, Senators), would play. His late series parents, Fred Gwynne and Yvonne De Carlo, "were really good people. It was a nice family," he says.

Patrick tells us he isn't interested in going back into acting, but might expand his activities in the marketing realm. In fact, the former wolf boy reckons he could practically do public appearances full time if he wanted to, there's still so much "Munsters" love out there. "You could do the car convention circuit because of the cool cars we had on the show. Because of all the merchandising, you could do toys and comic books. You could do horror and sci-fi."

What he isn't doing — reports to the contrary — is marrying a longtime "The Munsters" fan he met at a convention. "That actually was a misguided news story."

SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY: With CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" now firmly ensconced among top hit shows, you'd have to figure someone would, um, get inspired. Casting is under way now for a TBS pilot called "Brain Trust," which has a detective who is aided by a "brilliant, strange, loveable" trio of brainiacs from nearby think tanks.

THE VIDEOLAND VIEW: Lifetime is casting for a series pilot about an everyday housewife and mom who works at Walmart. She learns that her FBI agent husband is selling confidential information to Russia and agrees to spy on him for the U.S. government. If he's making an FBI agent's salary and getting payoffs, and she still has to work at Walmart, no wonder she's ticked off.

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