NEXT DIRECTION: PAINT IT PEACEFUL

NEXT up for Julian Schnabel? The painter/director will try to bring peace to the Mideast. Schnabel is headed to Israel in June to scout locations for a movie he’ll shoot next year. “It’s based on a book by a woman named Rula Jebreal, who is an Israeli Palestinian,” he told an Israeli reporter in London. “She wrote a beautiful book called ‘Miral.’ It’s written in Italian and it’s about Palestinian women under the Israeli state. It’s about Hind Husseini who started the Dar El-Tifl orphanage in Jerusalem. It’s about a lot of things, it’s about peace.” Schnabel said: “We need to fix things over there . . . That will be my next thing. Yes, I’m going to devote my self to try and make things better over there.”