Check out the recent "The Long Kiss Goodnight" for an even more troubling use (misuse? abuse?) of black masculinity for the purpose of pumping up the hyper-masculinity of its heroine. Samuel L. Jackson's character is continually abased, horrifyingly so in the farmyard sequence, so that he can be subordinated to and rescued by the former-assassin-now-school-teacher played by Geena Davis. It's too bad that this has to be a component, because otherwise this is the best Hong Kong movie yet made in the U.S. Stephen Brophy Cambridge, Mass. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]