one final thing: S&L is the third Woody Allen film I've seen in which black people are more than servants. The first was Zelig, where blacks played a bit part in a sight gag. The second was (I forget its name, but it was recent) where there was a black prostitute who (though you might say she was a servant) seemed the closest to a real human being in the whole film, who acted as a foil to the Woody Allen character (who was extremely hateful). And now in S&L, the main character plays jazz with some black musicians and has some reasonable conversations. Maybe there is some progress if even Woody Allen can break down some of this racism... Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
