----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ~I'm trying to develop a list of films which have an interracial couple as ~main characters but the issue of their interracial relationship is not the ~main focus of the film. BODYGUARD as an example: The interracial aspect of ~Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner's characters are never discussed. Can ~anyone offer some more? I find this discussion and debate interesting. Part of the problem is in defining a silly concept like race on scientific terms. Are we to think that the significant thing about a 4'6" Kalahari Bushman and a 7'2" Masai warrior is the color of their skin? But as a historical/sociological concept, it is interesting. Racial mixture has been around on this continent to a significant degree since the Spanish mated with the tribespeople of the new world and formed Mexicans, Guatemalans, etc. It was present in the first slave societies developed here. With regard to movies, probably one should go back and look at "Island in the Sun," with Harry Belafonte kissing Joan Fontaine (1957) and the way that Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and some of the border states banned the playing of the film. There was not much point to the movie, it seems now, but it was a major landmark in the unwritten code. Gerald Forshey Professor, Humanities and Philosophy Richard J. Daley College City Colleges of Chicago "Haunting foreshadowings of the temple appear in the realm of imagination, in music, in architecture, in the untroubled kingdom of reason, and in the gold sunset magic of lyrics, where beauty shines and glows, remote from the touch of sorrow, remote from the fear of change, remote from the failures and disenchantments of the world of fact." --Bertrand Russell