RE Michael Sanders' request for suggestions about tv and film programs with people with disabilities: I find it interesting that the godlike figure of the Great Detective is often presented as someone "exceptional" in both the "disabled" and the "superabled" sense, e.g., Ironsides, Longstreet. My guess is that "exceptional" is a notion that cuts two ways and that exceptional people are, to the extent that they represent our own sense of difference, usefully portrayed as somehow isolated. That people are isolated is a cruel fact about the (social) world, as is crime (the acts of the isolated: alienated or disaffected), so having an "exceptional" person restore order not only saves the world but satisfies our desire to reintegrate. In the case of a super-intellect like Sherlock Holmes, we can admire, but we are typically left outside; if he's a god, we are, at most, acolytes. But if the "exceptional" person is in some sense palpably mortal (note Peter Falk's prominently odd eye or Ray Charles in *Blues Brothers* [was that where he shoots?]), then we can be both more and less than the protagonist from our own pts of vw, and so, on balance, feel that we are like him. Thus, the exceptional detective's restoration of order comes to be, at least in part, a representation of our ability to feel at home in the (social) world. Just some thoughts. Eric Rabkin [log in to unmask] Department of English [log in to unmask] University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330