Since we're fighting anecdote-based universal censorship decisions with more anecdotes, here's mine: My son and his friends used to watch 1-2 'slasher' movies (they prefered the genre name 'slice-and-dice') every afternoon after school, when they weren't making up extremely violent Dungeons & Dragons adventures. One of my son's friends is now teaching in Namibia for the Peace Corps, and another is getting a masters degree in philosophy. But the most horrible outcome is my son's - he has become a Buddhist, and torments me every time I swat a mosquito! I wish I had totally prohibited violent videos during his adolescence - I could now kill as many bugs as I want to with impunity. Stephen Brophy Cambridge, Mass. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite