----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The classic example of film influencing reality was the decline of sales of men's undershirts after Clark Gable was revealed not to be wearing one in A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. I've always wondered, though, if that story was just apocryphal/urban legend. Something more verifiable was the influence of BIRTH OF A NATION in reviving the Ku Klux Klan as a political force! --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN