Occasionally on this list, the question, "Where is Terence Malick, and what is he doing now?" has come up. For those fans of Badlands and Days of Heaven, here's a little nubbin of rumour. Buried in an article on Canadian entrepreneur Gerry Schwartz's undertakings in Hollywood, in the (Toronto) Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine (December 1995 [25 November 1995]), among future projects of Phoenix Pictures, headed by Mike Medavoy, lurks Malick ("a Medavoy favourite") as the announced director for a new adaptation of James Jones's novel, The Thin Red Line. "What I want to do here with Mike is build a sausage factory that makes sausages called movies," says Schwartz. Blaine Allan [log in to unmask] Film Studies Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]