Well, *CBTT5&D,JD,JD* has a character who was once male, but now is a female, but it turns out that he/she fathered "the son of Jimmy Dean," rather than James Dean himself. The film explores what it means to be a woman--one character has had a radical mastectomy, the others have mislead themselves for years about who and what they are. I've been exploring this issue lately because I spend so much time M**ing, both for fun and for teaching, and there is a lot of genderbending going on out on the telnet sites. Which reminds me....has anyone seen "the movies" at MediaMOO? They certainly seem to lack a filmmaker's flair. But they are there, at purple- crayon.media.mit.edu 8888. I'm Montana there, if any of you should try to come out. I vote for the brainstorming on movies--I'm always finding new things to watch that way (and living in Montana, that is sometimes difficult). This week a couple of friends and I have been working our way through the Fred Schepisi films--inspired by the *New Yorker* article--then discussing them out on the MOO. Would any of you folks out there be interested in having a discussion about film sometime out on MediaMOO? We could easily schedule a conference. This list is really odd--I guess I'm used to the spontaneity and creativity of CREWRT-L; sometimes things here seem terribly hostile. Must be all that critical theory.... Kathleen Ely (Who never made it beyond the auteur theory....)