----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Someone posted this as a sig on another list, and I thought it appropriate in light of David Desser's recent question about the dearth of good films and Gene Stavis's response: "Is God dead?" and "Why are there no real movies anymore?" are pretty much the same question. They both mean that our symbols and our myths have failed us - that we have begun to take them literally. - David Mamet --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN