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To: Rambi who wrote (22965)	4/21/1999 10:20:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

The striking coincidence is that last week there was a segment about a play written to deal with the Paducah shooting. There was a movement afoot to perform it at many schools - as a catalyst for getting the students to talk about the alienation and perhaps work against it or reverse it. And now this. Bitter irony - exactly the same sort of situation this play was aimed to defuse.

To: Rambi who wrote (22965)	4/21/1999 11:03:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Have you ever watched the kids' movies that promote violence -- like Porky's and Porky's II. Stand by Me is really frightening, if taken seriously. My Bodyguard. Nuke 'Em High. Not to mention the outright horror films with kids being stabbed and shot. If one accepts movies as reality, there's nothing really odd about children killing each other, especially, deformed, monstrous kids. I believe it goes back to Medea and Oedipus Rex with off-stage horror too gross to even show. You like King Lear? or MacBeth? or Hamlet? Shakespeare authenticated horror on the stage. Now kids make movies of mass murder on Public Access TV. They think it's fun, or art, or something.