Bonnie and Clyde has an interesting movie-watching scene. The Big Knife is a good movie about the movies that no one has mentioned yet. As I remember it, it's the flip side of Singing in the Rain. The Bad and the Beautiful is another 50s film about the dark side of Hollywood. And a clip from it shows up in Minelli's later Two Weeks in Another Town, about a runaway film production in Europe. The characters in 2 Weeks watch one of the director and the star's earlier collaborations, and though it's not named in the film, it's The B and the B (a Minelli/Kirk Douglas thing, like 2 Weeks). Neat. Of course, if we wanted to get into experimental films and documentaries... I think the rules specified that the films we came up with had to be primarily about movie-making. But if the rules were relaxed a bit, we could come up with lots of films that are not about the movies, but whose main characters were actors or filmmakers doing something else. Such as: The Exorcist (Regan's mom is an actress) Dead Ringers (the love interest is an actress) The Dead Pool (the crooks are filmmakers). This game is distracting, particularly when facing a stack of undergrad papers to grade, which probably accounts for the high volume of correspondence on this subject. ___________________________________________________________ James Peterson University of Notre Dame [log in to unmask]