Jim Devine wrote:
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> isn't it common for straight white males to die in Hollywood dramas,
> too? death seems a major theme of serious dramas. Maybe gays and
> minorities die disproportionately _more_, but it'd be interesting to
> see how much more.
The relevant domain are the movies which involve mixed 'partnerships' (of some sort) of black/white or gay/straight. I'm trying to remember deaths in the Lethal Weapon series. The one 'major' death I remember is a woman. In the days of the Hays Office any woman who had 'illicit' sex had to die (or at least become very very miserable).
Carrol