On 2/2/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Jim Devine wrote:
> >
> > 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.
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> 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
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