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Anjelica Huston and Ron Silver are set...

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Anjelica Huston and Ron Silver are set for Paul Mazursky’s “Enemies--A Love Story.” Mazursky and Roger L. Simon adapted Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Brooklyn-set story about a Holocaust survivor married to a Polish woman who hid him from the Nazis following the murder of his family--and the dark comedy of errors that ensues when his supposedly dead wife arrives on his door step. Swedish actress Lena Olin co-stars as the Polish wife in the Morgan Creek production to film in Montreal next May . . . .

Steve Martin plays a new father in Imagine/Universal’s tentatively titled “Parenting” film which goes before the cameras in early 1989. Ron Howard directs from a script by Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz . . . .

Forest Whitaker and Alfre Woodard star in McNeil/Allyn’s “State of Independence,” the story of a young man who returns to the West Indies after a dispiriting experience in England. Ken Loach directs in St. Kitts next February from Caryl Phillips adaptation of her own novel.

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Tough Guys Dept.: Joining Brian Dennehy’s elite police corruption-busters in Orion’s “Street Legal” are Bill Paxton, Jeff Fahey and Joe Pantoliano. The thriller shoots locally next month under director John Mackenzie . . . . John Carpenter segues from the terrifying to the horrifying in “Land’s End,” a Davis Entertainment project for Columbia planned for early 1989 filming. An over-the-hill military man, shipped off to a remote Aleutian post, is confronted by a Soviet attack from Siberia. John (“Die Hard”) McTiernan is exec producer . . . .

Michael Ironside and Christopher Bondy are cops on the trail of international drug traffickers in the indie “Deadly Surveillance,” filming next week in Montreal. Also caught up in the intrigue is Eileen Davidson (“Young and the Restless”) and David Carradine. Paul Ziller directs, Louis Goyer produces and both wrote the screenplay . . . .

Ever wonder what happened to the missing days when writer John Grady’s “Six Days of the Condor” came to the screen numerically cut in half? Well, producer Dino De Laurentiis has commissioned Grady to write the sequel to “Three Days of the Condor” for a planned summer shoot . . . .

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