>one of the best professors I ever had once said, John Hospers, then chair of >the Philosophy Department of U.S.C. once said, "If we were to discover a >letter indicating that Shakespeare thought HAMLET was the best comedy he >ever wrote, would that affect our judgment of the work as perhaps the >greatest tragedy of all time?" The answer, I think, is no. And as hard >as it can be, we need to struggle to separate the work from the hype. . . . or, as d h lawrence said "Never trust the teller, trust the tale" mike frank ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.