Author: [log in to unmask] (Richard J. Leskosky) Date: 12/20/94 3:40 PM [Editor's note: This message was submitted to SCREEN-L by the "Author" noted above, and not by Jeremy Butler ([log in to unmask]).] Last Friday's (12/16/94) X-FILES took me by surprise in using one of the words I thought could not be said on TV, even on FOX, at least (or especially) during prime time. I had taped the episode and checked it twice (in the spirit of the season), and it is definitely there. This particular episode takes place in an a home for the elderly where Alzheimer patients are getting an experimental drug and, on the sly, some East Asian folk medicine. The combination not only improves their mental faculties to the point of telekinesis but also brings out various repressed hostilities. In a scene where two patients are quarreling, one says to the other, "Aw f**k off, Stan!" Did anyone else catch this? Has anyone heard about either a loosening of guidelines or any censure from the FCC? --Richard Leskosky Richard J. Leskosky office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-2223 Unit for Cinema Studies University of Illinois