How about the bosses in Grapes of Wrath? Any chain-gang film has mean supervisors, but they may not count as bosses. Are you sticking just to Hollywood films? Nine to Five has a mean boss (male) and three women who seek revenge (it's Spanish title reads "How to Kill Your Boss." Zhang Yi Mou's films have plenty of mean bosses--v. "To Live." Then there are all the mean studio heads in so many films about Hollywood (v. earlier lists). Another general repository of nasties is the newspaper film with mean editors. Check out the filmography of Edward Arnold, who played authoritative figures, most of them nasty. liz weis cuny ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]