I don't think anyone has mentioned one of the most famous eating images in Western film--Charles Laughton slinging around chicken bones in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII. It also seems that eating scenes are de rigeur in films with medieval settings. Errol Flynn brings a poached (but not cooked) deer to the feast in THE ADVEN- TURES OF ROBIN HOOD; in THE LION IN WINTER, Prince Richard is entertained with the new delight of "brandywine"; it's either LION IN WINTER or BECKETT where King Henry II comments on the new device called the "fork"; and there are numerous scenes in similar films of dogs competing for scraps on the staw-strewn castle floors (Polanski's MACBETH is no exception!--oh yes, there's also that witch's brew!). Even the recent and negligible A KID IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT features medieval delicacies like boar's snout vs. American kid food. And so on. Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]