Richard Gere comes to mind as a small guy. Oscar Werner too? So I believe is Kermit. Let's not forget the plain fact that film enlarges any object ("I look so fat" etc), and that audiences love stars for their faces/heads, and for the shape and relative size of their bodies (Arnold ain't so large either, but the Terminator is. And look at poor Far Wray.....). Krin, are you going to entitle your study "Size Doesn't Matter?" By the way, am I the only man on earth who doesn't think Eliz. Taylor was or is beautiful, except in a textbook kind of way? It's only a matter of time before computers permit filmmakers to create digital "actors" from accurate records/photos and pics of other (and dead) actors, down to the last detail - sort of the Zelig concept in reverse. I would imagine that within 20 years stardom and celebrity will be all but finished as we know it, though the need for and concept of celebrity will always need to be satisfied somehow. Perhaps someday the ubiquity of the net and of digitization will restore the notion that people are born and remain unique individuals, (even if they all look alike). But that's a Luddite concept, isn't it? Question: do big guys come off better on the small screen than small guys come off on the big screen? Paul B. Wiener Special Services Librarian SUNY at Stony Brook Melville Library 516/632-7253 fax: 516/'632-7116 [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite