----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On "aquaria": I agree that "Lady From Shanghai" is seminal. As for the Hong Kong fishtank motif, that reminds me of a similar scene in (ugh) "Lethal Weapon 2". There's also the "gazing into the fishtank" scene in Altman's "Short Cuts" (the part based loosely on Carver's "Neighbors"). I guess yuo could count "Monty Python's Meaning of Life", though in that case, the fish are really actors. . . What about Barnes & Barnes "Fish Heads"? Joking! Thanks, Andy Miller