ACTOR DANIEL BALDWIN HOSPITALIZED

NEW YORK (AP) -- Actor Daniel Baldwin was in stable condition today after
an apparent drug overdose in which he reportedly went on a naked rampage
and trashed a room at the Plaza Hotel. His brother Billy denied those reports.

``I did speak to a police officer ... and he said to me that there
certainly was no rampage and his hotel room was not trashed,'' Billy
Baldwin said.

``His condition continues to improve every hour,'' he said, adding that his
brother could be released in a day or so ``after more observation and
testing.''

A hospital spokeswoman said only that Daniel Baldwin's condition had been
upgraded from critical to stable overnight.

Police sources said that Daniel Baldwin, at 37 the second-oldest of four
actor brothers, was rushed to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital on Monday
morning after suffering a drug overdose at the posh hotel.

Officers were called to the Plaza at 7:30 a.m. after the hotel reported a
disturbance, police said.

The police sources, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of
anonymity, said Baldwin had overdosed on cocaine and had damaged his hotel
room.

Newspaper reports said Baldwin was naked and hallucinating when police
arrived and that he put up a struggle and had to be handcuffed.

Asked if his brother had a drug problem, Billy Baldwin said at the hospital
this morning, ``That's my family's business, quite honestly.''

He said he was most concerned about his mother, Carol, who he said was
``overwhelmed by the media response to this.''

Daniel Baldwin, who once portrayed a detective on the TV series
``Homicide,'' has been called the black sheep of an acting family that
includes brothers Alec, Billy and Stephen.

He worked as a sports-betting handicapper before joining his brothers in
Hollywood.

In a 1994 magazine interview he said he missed his father's 1983 funeral
because he was in jail for driving without insurance and with switched plates.

``It was horrible, the guilt I felt,'' he said. ``Soon afterward, I became
a father myself. I realized you have to be responsible.''