HUGH As far as I know there is no such job at a studio. Extremely successful screenwriters often hire people to do the research for their stories, as will set designers, costume designers...But the closest thing to this at a studio would be the archivist who digs out old, unproduced scripts for consideration by current studio adminstrators... Sam ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]