The near-impossible dream of reuniting the principals from the miniseries Lonesome Dove will become reality later this year. Screenwriter and Lonesome Dove co-executive producer Bill Wittliff has corralled not just the stars, but also Larry McMurtry , who won the Pulitzer for the novel, to attend a 20th anniversary reunion Oct. 2 and 3 in San Antonio.

Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Anjelica Huston, Rick Schroder, Chris Cooper and Glenne Headly have agreed to attend and be honorary chairs.

Before writing the Lonesome Dove teleplay, Wittliff and his wife, Sally, founded the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University in San Marcos, an archive of works from the region's writers, musicians and filmmakers. Combined with a photo archive, the holdings are known as The Wittliff Collections.

The October reunion will be a benefit for the Collections.

Wittliff donated his materials from the miniseries and got many of the principals to donate theirs. The result is a near-complete production record and almost 80 hours of film dailies.

A tentative schedule for the Lonesome Dove reunion includes a Friday, Oct. 2, performance of music from the series by the San Antonio Symphony, followed by a sponsor party.

On Saturday, Oct. 3, a symposium featuring principals will take place at Trinity University, followed by a gala dinner at the Witte Museum.

More information is available at www.thewittliff collections.txstate.edu.

Longtime friends, Wittliff and Tommy Lee Jones are now collaborating on a film version of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel, Islands in the Stream. The duo co-wrote the screenplay, and Tommy Lee directs and stars.

A three-act story about American painter Thomas Hudson living first in the Bahamas, then in Cuba, Islands in the Stream was written in 1950 and '51.

Hemingway wrote a fourth act, which was the only part he chose to publish. It was the novella The Old Man and the Sea.

Former Dallas-based filmmaker Joe Camp got a pregnant mare for Christmas from his wife, Kathleen.

Joe wrote and directed the Benji movies.

But Joe also wrote the best-seller The Soul of a Horse.

Just before Christmas, Joe and Kathleen drove their truck and trailer from San Diego to Reno, Nev. In 15-degree weather, they adopted a buckskin mare from the Bureau of Land Management and named her Noelle.

"She was, after all, Kathleen's Christmas gift to me," says Joe. Noelle now lives in a pasture at their San Diego home.