Jeremey McMillan raised the silly: >>...tendency to associate Classical music and Intelligence. To which Steve Schwartz added: >Marketing, pure marketing. [...ploys] ...reinforced by the movies, >which also often use a taste for classical music to indicate aristocratic, >genius-level evil (villain played by Alan Rickman or George Sanders). A delightful case along similar lines (i.e., low-level villain, rotten music) occurs with the underworld thug assistant to The Spic in Jean-Jacques Beineix's "Diva" -- IMO the greatest film ever made _about_ music. This tragi-comic detective story featuring a delightfully improbable Socratic hero is scripted and slickly directed with an eye on Plato's Symposium and its themes: desire, love and beauty ...musical beauty, in the film. Anyway, near the end, upon the death of this vile and IIRC nameless character -- whose leitmotif is that he dislikes everything: his recurrent bit of dialogue being "Je n'aime pas..." this and that, for instance "...les ascenceurs [elevators].," etc. -- we discover that he'd been secretly listening, all along, to the wretchedest polka music at brain-shaking volume through his earphones. Bert Bailey